Opinion

Plus: A young, promising arm to watch in Delmarva.

M&T Bank Stadium is a place where you and 71,000 of your closest friends gather weekly to watch the Ravens over a beer. But these new exclusive spaces more like the lobby of a swanky hotel than a football stadium.

I went sailing on Saturday. Not really a surprising thing. I live in Annapolis. But August is the Chesapeake Bay’s unexpected month — the time of year when things turn out exactly as you expect until they do not.

For far too long, I’ve been a hypocrite, expecting action and change from others with no effort of my own.

The last time the Orioles won a game they were trailing after six innings was May 25.

That stretch from late May to mid-June when the bad news came quickly on so many elbow injuries will be hard to top in terms of season-defining stretches for these Orioles. It feels like we just had another, though.

Follow along as we recap the Apple TV+ series “Lady in the Lake,” based on the book by Laura Lippman and starring Natalie Portman and Baltimore native Moses Ingram.

Two Annapolis police officers who are union representatives used department tech to track a police major's vehicle as he worked from home, prompting police Chief Ed Jackson to suspend them. The officers have returned to work, but the incident lies at the heart of a planned no-confidence vote.

Were the Olympic opening ceremonies intentionally offensive or just misunderstood? Lingering on that question misses the spirit of the Games and what makes them special.

The Orioles opted for depth additions, focused on players who’ve shown promise but struggled lately. That’s the same old playbook.

It might not feel good to hear, but these are the types of acquisitions this team needed. There’s not much that can raise its ceiling, given the stars up and down the lineup and the two pitchers atop its rotation. It needed its floor to be raised.

Plus, what Austin Hays really meant to the team and Adley Rutschman’s struggles.

To help me make sense of Olympic equestrian events and allegations of animal cruelty, I went to Maryland’s top elected horseman — Steuart Pittman.

A library would be a benefit to the entire Columbia community, one reader argues.

I cook mac and cheese, fried chicken and other soul food in hopes that my two sons will be proud of their Black heritage and Black culture.

They probably couldn’t have drawn up a more ideal set of trades if they tried.

The entire health care ecosystem, and the communities it serves, have been uplifted by the transformational generosity of Michael Bloomberg, says Mohan Suntha, president and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical System.

Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s comments about women who don’t have children insults their right to make choices about their own lives.

The O’s are 12-16 in their last 28 games, a slump that should indicate they need more help from the front office, not less.

Machado’s 2018 trade to the Dodgers kicked off this Orioles rebuild. Now that bright future has been realized in so many ways.