Commentary

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...

Twenty-eight days out of every month, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better state treasurer than Nancy K. Kopp.She’s smart, studious and conscientious, and...

People are supposed to choose politicians, not the other way around. However, that certainly isn’t the case for the residents of Western Maryland.Republican representative...

President Trump, testing 2020 campaign themes, likes to taunt Democrats as the “Socialist party” and hopes to make it stick.Newt Gingrich, the nutty professor,...

Eric Costello is undoubtedly one of the most conservative Democrats on the Baltimore City Council. His policy positions and rhetoric impede the progress we...

Larrymandering is out. Gerrymandering is in.The Supreme Court’s five conservative justices, in tossing Maryland’s congressional redistricting map to the majority Democrats, decreed that the...

As I prepare to travel back home to New York for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising this weekend, I’m reading the preparatory...

The Democratic presidential debates are almost upon us. Be afraid. Be very afraid.Not because these are a bad lot of candidates or because they...

I am responding to David Plymyer’s predictably negative commentary regarding legislation to enact development impact fees in Baltimore County (Maryland Matters, June 21).For decades,...

Here’s one set of eyes and ears that won’t be fastened on President Trump’s speech on July 4 at the Lincoln Memorial.The aural and...