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I’m new to commuting on the Baltimore Beltway. Is it always this bad?
I’ve been commuting from Annapolis to Baltimore a couple of days each week for a few months now. We’ve got traffic in Annapolis, and sometimes it’s maddening. There was that one time a sailboat mast got caught in a powerline on Forest Drive. But I have to ask you Baltimore Beltway commuters a question: Is it always this bad?
A vehicle sits overturned in a construction zone on the Baltimore Beltway on March 22, 2023. Six construction workers were killed in the crash.
Jon Meoli: Kyle Bradish looked like himself in Bowie. There’s cause for guarded optimism.
There’s no way to know with injuries like this. There are success stories with nonsurgical treatments, but far more end with Tommy John. I do recognize, though, I saw a pretty good version of Bradish on Tuesday.
Orioles starting pitcher Kyle Bradish looks on at Spring Training in Sarasota.
Commentary: What I learned from 5 days of jury duty in Baltimore
A lifelong Baltimore resident says five days of jury duty changed him and gave him a new understanding of how criminal justice is administered in the city.
6/28/22—the exterior of the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse.
Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort present full-court fashion
Angel Reese and her new WNBA cohort shone sartorially at the draft.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 15: Angel Reese arrives prior to the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
Commentary: Biden right to focus on union labor for Key Bridge rebuild
Having unionized workers rebuild the Key Bridge would ensure that workplace standards are upheld, livable wages are paid, and the workforce reflects the makeup of the Baltimore region, William R. Davis, a council representative for the Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters, says.
President Joe Biden speaks in front of the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, flagged by Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller and Gov. Wes Moore.
St. John’s College is reckoning with its racist past. That includes Francis Scott Key.
St. John’s College in Annapolis will look at its most complicated graduate as part of a wider reckoning with its history of racism.
Percy Moran's 1905 painting of Francis Scott Key and John S. Skinner as they watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry took a good deal of creative license.
Angel Reese helped college basketball reach new heights. Can she do it for the WNBA?
Women’s college basketball’s popularity — and therefore the earning power of its players — is soaring. So why would Reese, a Randallstown native, skip her final season?
Angel Reese joined other expected WNBA draftees at The Empire State Building on April 15, 2024 in New York City.
Commentary: Ivan Bates’ cruel threat to charge parents when children arrested
An idea floated by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates to bring criminal charges against parents whose children have been arrested is cruel and misguided, say the faculty director and the executive director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
Shanta Trivedi (L) is an assistant professor and faculty director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Aubrey Edwards-Luce (R) is the center’s executive director.
Jon Meoli: Austin Hays deserves a chance to get right for the Orioles. It’s a unique challenge for Brandon Hyde to make that happen.
This likely will prove to be one of the most meaningful test cases of Brandon Hyde’s skills that the reigning AL Manager of the Year has faced to date.
Orioles left fielder Austin Hays is 3-for-35 this season, and rookie Colton Cowser has been on an extremely hot streak.
Letters: City leaders disregard conditions leading to juvenile crime
Youth development programs are among the resources needed to address the social and economic causes of juvenile crime, says Lillian Bocquin, a fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Lillian Bocquin is a Bloomberg Fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Reflections on covering O.J. Simpson’s murder trial as a photographer for the Los Angeles Times
Kirk McKoy covered the O.J. Simpson murder trial as a young news photographer and remembers how it affected his view of the world — and whether his football idol was innocent or not. He also shares photos he took at the time.
O.J. Simpson walks out of courthouse after the verdicts concerning his civil trial were read.
Letters: Hispanic community can spark comeback from Key Bridge collapse
Hispanic business and community leaders and workers have a crucial role to play as the Baltimore region works to recover from the economic impact of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, a member of the Metro Baltimore Hispanic Contractors Association says.
Workers are seen in the beginning stages of dismantling the steel from the frame of the collapsed Key Bridge on April 4, 2024.
Supersized hype means outsized growing pains for Orioles rookie Jackson Holliday
Baltimore's top prospect is still waiting for his first big league hit, a tedious stretch made more trying because of sky-high expectations for the 20-year-old second baseman.
Jackson Holliday
Commentary: Port of Baltimore well positioned to bounce back from Key Bridge loss
While the immediate economic impact of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse has been severe for the Port of Baltimore, the port and the Baltimore region has the opportunity to largely avert long-term economic harm, says Adam Scavette, a regional economist at the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Response crews began removing shipping containers using a floating crane barge at the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on April 7, 2024. The Unified Command is continuing efforts in support of removing the M/V Dali, which is required to fully reopen the Fort McHenry Channel.
Jon Meoli: Get used to seeing former Orioles prospects returning to Baltimore with new teams
DL Hall and Joey Ortiz of the Brewers will not be the last former Orioles prospects to visit Camden Yards with another big league team.
The Orioles drafted pitcher DL Hall, now with the Milwaukee Brewers, in the first round in 2017.
O.J. Simpson: Parsing the late athlete and former murder suspect’s legacy
The legacy of the late OJ Simpson remains complicated, even 30 years after the murders that cast him into suspicion.
O.J. Simpson stands as he listens to Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell as she reads her decision to hold him over for trial on July 8, 1994, in connection with the June 12 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.
Maryland’s new approach to gun violence is all about the data
State lawmakers recently approved legislation creating the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention, sending it to the desk of Gov. Wes Moore. The idea is to collect and use data to design strategies — the same technique used to fight disease — to reduce the number of people killed and injured by guns every year in Maryland.
Detectives investigate the scene of a shooting in Pasadena, where police said a 61-year-old woman raised a handgun officers before they shot her.
How the total eclipse of the sun became a ‘total eclipse of the heart’ for my family
This week’s total eclipse of the sun was a total moment of togetherness for me and my son.
Leslie Streeter’s son watches the total eclipse that took place earlier this week.
With a call-up, the Orioles finally stop treating Jackson Holliday like just another prospect
It didn't make sense when the Orioles sent Holliday back to the minors after a strong spring. Two weeks into the season, Baltimore is finally making the right call with its top prospect.
The Orioles have a group of highly ranked prospects in their system, but Jackson Holliday is the only one rated No. 1 overall.
Jon Meoli: Maybe Jackson Holliday improved in Norfolk. What matters is how he improves the Orioles.
Whatever the reason the Orioles spent 10 games without Holliday was, 10 games was enough.
Jackson Holliday is in the starting lineup for the Orioles at Boston on Wednesday night.
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