Opinion

Those unsolicited calls, texts and mailers to homeowners about buying their houses ASAP are rampant this summer, and I am wondering what to do about it.

Summertime presents a conundrum for working parents: what the heck to do with kids too young to stay home alone.

The auntie in me sees hardworking youths not much older than my son. But yesterday’s violence proves how complicated it is.

Now teaching is a part of my identity.

I brought my son to see ’80s band Tears For Fears and it was cheaper than a sitter.

The same strategy can be used to reshape Baltimore.

It's unfair to encourage student borrowers to take on a crippling economic obligation knowing that it might be years before they make more than they paid for their degrees.

Most people think Pride is about love, but it’s actually about bodies. Bodies that are free to take up space when they have been traditionally cast aside.

Whenever one believes life begins, many who oppose abortion have never supported the lives of children once they’re born.

Prolonged grief added to ‘psychiatric bible,’ but could that further bury the conversation?

“Crying On Television” plays at Everyman Theatre through June 26.

Restaurant owner Trevor Scott Ivan White was shot to death in Northeast Baltimore on Father’s Day.

Government funding should also go toward funding the root causes of crime.

If the Catholic church wants to help the expectant mother already ripped to her core by a devastating genetic diagnosis, maybe the best way would be to offer compassion and empathy for whichever path she chooses with her own body, and to recognize that there are multiple paths that deserve grace.

I lucked out not only in the Daddy department — man, do I miss him — but especially with my mom.

A "runner's body" conjures images of lithe, young, lean people, but columnist Leslie Gray Streeter knows that a "runner's body" is really just whatever body you run in, even when it's older and larger. And she wishes people would stop being so shocked about it.

One of our earliest decisions at The Baltimore Banner was to structure ourselves as a nonprofit, focused on delivering quality, trustworthy news that serves our mission. And unlike a hedge fund, we won’t be in it for the money, focused on profits.

We worked with each of our journalists to think deeply about how their work affects people, and to craft individual mission statements that describe the specific impacts their work aims to have.

The Baltimore Banner launches today and we’re excited about what that means for local journalism.

This hopefulness is the same sentiment that brought columnist Leslie Streeter back to her hometown.