Columns

COLUMN | Eight practices into training camp, the Ravens have signed their top wide receiver to a mammoth contract extension, gained familiarity with an overhauled coaching staff and seen their newest additions don full pads for the first time.

COLUMN | There’s growing acknowledgment that change is coming for the millions of dollars handed out in grants funded by Live! Casino taxes every year. After 14 years, there’s interest in sharing the wealth.

COLUMN | Zay Flowers is one of the tightest teammates in Lamar Jackson’s circle. By paying Flowers top-tier receiver money, the Ravens have created an enticement for Jackson to re-up in the next year, too.

COLUMN | There are a lot of talented players left in the Orioles clubhouse, and there were a lot of complicated feelings about what it meant that so many important people and players were gone.

COLUMN | A sea of gray-haired picketers angry about the state of the nation has been asking: Where are all the young people? I found 80 of them recently in Easton, Maryland — high schoolers lining up to flip Congress in November.

COLUMN | We’ve reached a stage where Mike Elias is now dealing away his own first-round picks to get the Orioles out of the hole he helped dig. Why should he get any more trust to fix this team?

COLUMN | Players like Adley Rutschman helped Baltimore fall back in love with this team. And it’s devastating that his time here ended this way.

COLUMN | I’m trying to raise a friendly, confident Black child who is solid in any identity he comes to have. But I’m afraid it will be used against him.

COLUMN | Where there are people, there is plastic. People are crap. You can hold cleanup days from now until forever, and it won’t stop plastic from flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. To do that, you have to think big.

COLUMN | Chris Davis didn't expect to get into the Orioles Hall of Fame this soon. But he didn't appreciate his career achievements until stepping away from the game.

COLUMN | What if this isn’t about parents’ rights and school bureaucrats? What if the lawsuit and threats to cut off school funding over pronouns and names are about seizing control of schools from local communities? Parents should be asking a lot of tough questions.

Chris Davis returns to Baltimore at an inauspicious time.

I tried to identify the factors that might hold more influence over Mike Elias’ decision-making than we think.

COLUMN | Rebuilding teams trade valuable players because that’s what they are supposed to do. It makes sense. In some ways, it feels inevitable.

COLUMN | It won’t be easy to overlook the massive shadow Lamar Jackson’s salary cap hit has over the franchise in 2027. But the two-time MVP seems legitimately excited for a new coaching regime and another chance to prove himself.

COLUMN | The murders of Giovanna Myrie and her young brother, allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend, remind us that our kids are struggling with big emotions and possible violence. What are we missing?

COLUMN | Jen Pauliukonis is collecting data on gun violence in the state as no one has before.

COLUMN | As the Orioles sink in the standings, David Rubenstein's optimism about the team's playoff chances and his sunny appraisal of Mike Elias’ job performance feel tone-deaf.

COLUMN | After years of Baltimore City asking for a Trader Joe’s, we finally get one ... that’s so close to the county, there’s a county office building in the parking lot. I don’t think that’s good enough.