Opinion
Summer travel is a heated proposition this year
A local travel coordinator gives advice about how to navigate the slog of summer air travel.
How I got my toddler a COVID vaccine in Baltimore City
A local mother illustrates her experience tracking down a COVID vaccine for her young son.
Opinion: Why I’m disavowing the Republican Party after Cox win
Nominating unbeatable GOP candidates is the ultimate act of self-immolation from members of a party that just eight years ago was starting a renaissance.
Election Day recap: Late starts, slow turnout
Read, see and hear what happened at the polls with this roundup from Baltimore Banner reporters and editors.
Election 2022: Even on the precipice of democracy, some hometown hope
Even as things look bleak for democracy and for Baltimore, there’s something deeply moving about the scene at a local polling place.
Election 2022: Who exactly are these people I am voting for?
Each election season people vote for candidates in races they know nothing about. This election is no different.
Opinion: The Baltimore County Board of Education needs to stop power plays and petty politics and focus on students
The dysfunctional picture of the Baltimore County school board painted by its public meetings is grim enough. What lies beneath the surface appears much uglier.
No, I don’t want to sell you my house: The cold calls of summer
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.
Navigating the morass of summer camp
Summertime presents a conundrum for working parents: what the heck to do with kids too young to stay home alone.
Squeegee workers: Neighborhood nephews, nuisances or nefarious? Maybe it starts in how you look at them
The auntie in me sees hardworking youths not much older than my son. But yesterday’s violence proves how complicated it is.
I waited to become a teacher, and it’s better for my students that I did
Now teaching is a part of my identity.
Jamming in his jammies: Making my kid my concert buddy
I brought my son to see ’80s band Tears For Fears and it was cheaper than a sitter.
How Roe v. Wade opponents appropriated Thurgood Marshall
The same strategy can be used to reshape Baltimore.
More obstacles, worse prizes and a Sharknado: Why I believe in student loan forgiveness
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.
Opinion: What Pride looks like through a sketch artist’s eyes
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.
Roe v. Wade overturned: It’s not really about the children
Whenever one believes life begins, many who oppose abortion have never supported the lives of children once they’re born.
How long is too long to grieve?
Prolonged grief added to ‘psychiatric bible,’ but could that further bury the conversation?
Writer R. Eric Thomas on his new play and coming back to Baltimore
“Crying On Television” plays at Everyman Theatre through June 26.
Death of restaurant owner, businessman hits too close to home for me
Restaurant owner Trevor Scott Ivan White was shot to death in Northeast Baltimore on Father’s Day.
E.R. Shipp: Police should be crime fighters, not social workers
Government funding should also go toward funding the root causes of crime.
