Opinion

Prince Harry's “Spare” raises questions about fame, royalty and the media.

Gov. Wes Moore has the opportunity to provide balance on spending and taxation, a Towson University political science faculty member says; a visitor to the Baltimore Museum of Art on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday says she was disappointed to find the museum closed.

Wes Moore's landslide election victory demonstrates that Marylanders view him as the right man to lead the state at this moment in history. He carries that broad support into office along with high hopes that his vision for the state and plans to build consensus will be realized.

Mia and James Moore are about to join a rarified list of children in Maryland history, moving into the governor’s official home in Annapolis, Government House. Those who have lived it before them say there will be wonderful experiences they’ll never forget — and moments that were, frankly, harder because they were lived in the public eye.

Americans have moved in recent years to re-examine how the nation's identity has been shaped by its history of slavery and racial discrimination. That kind of reckoning was again evident as President Biden signed a bill to remove a bust of Roger Taney from the U.S. Capitol and replace it with one of Thurgood Marshall.

The city has been one of the last districts in the state to employ stringent COVID-19 protocols, including regular testing.

A memorable photograph captures Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 visit to Baltimore a short time after he was announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. It was a time of national turmoil and transformation, and King was confronting profound challenges from outside and inside the civil rights movement.

A spike in COVID-19 and other diseases means Marylanders need more workplace protections, an attorney says; Baltimore County's Office of Inspector General needs more authority, not less, says a former reporter who covered county government.

A 12-old-boy brought a gun to school the other day. Anne Arundel police don’t like that reforms passed last year prevented them from hauling this kid away in handcuffs.

Journalist Allison Gilbert and Banner columnist Leslie Gray Streeter will be discussing Gilbert’s and Julia Scheeres’ book about Elsie Robinson, once a highly paid and highly read syndicated columnist, next week.

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts has deprived the city of popular cultural events in recent years and has continually failed the city’s artistic community, writer and artist Alanah Nichole Davis says.

Dawn Gile broke through in a conservative Anne Arundel County district that Republicans had largely won since the 1970s.

After three weeks in an orthopedic boot, I have to figure out how to get my fitness back.

Roadway improvements in Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood mean the loss of a couple precious parking spaces. Alanah Nichole Davis says she realizes her chances of incurring more parking fines in the city have now gone up.

Gov.-elect Wes Moore’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan draws a grade of “incomplete” from the head of a fisheries association; additional funding and construction called crucial to bridging the digital divide in Maryland.

Instead of resolving to make self-improvements, I just need to let myself be.

Wes Moore will become the state’s first Black governor in Annapolis, a city with a history as a major slave port.

Greater reliance on private security carries risks, and public safety still depends on having law enforcement agencies properly staffed and funded, leaders of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund say.

Have a lot of cookbooks you never use? A home cook, a chef and a food blogger give some advice on how to make cookbook hoarding more useful.

The General Assembly approved Anton's law to ensure transparency and accountability regarding police use of lethal force in Maryland. A new Baltimore County Police policy means the department doesn't intend to abide by the objectives set forth in the law, members of the Baltimore County Coalition for Police Accountability say.