Comptroller Peter Franchot, on a continuous loop of shameless self-promotion for governor, might suffer from the Louis L. Goldstein syndrome. Or curse. Goldstein, for…
History is a stern taskmaster. Back in the bad old 1960s, the State of Maryland spent $1 million on a study to determine the…
When the State of Maryland was preparing to enter the lottery business in the early 1970s, there was very little experience to guide it…
Quick! Grab a life jacket. The Greenland ice sheet is so overheated that it melted 197 million gallons of water into the oceans. Alaska…
There’s an important anniversary on Aug. 15 that’s worth nearly a trillion dollars. When David J. Lewis, Republican turned Democrat, congressman from Western Maryland,…
In the greedy, gaudy early 1980s, known as the era of “wretched excess,” President Trump – then derisively known as “The Donald” – dispatched…
President Trump and Rep. Andy Harris are perfect partners. They both claim Maryland’s Eastern Shore as a comfortable habitat – Trump, who carried all…
Columnists and editorial writers are the folks who come over the hill and shoot the dead after the battle. Occasionally they miss their target….
A fella can get attached to being mayor. That’s especially so for a guy who wasn’t looking for a promotion. The resume upgrade comes…
President Trump, testing 2020 campaign themes, likes to taunt Democrats as the “Socialist party” and hopes to make it stick. Newt Gingrich, the nutty…