Opinion

Some believe we as a society have an obligation to watch videos like the one depicting the death of Tyre Nichols. I can’t.

A Lutherville-Timonium redevelopment and transit spur plan offers benefits for the entire Baltimore region, two readers said. A reader raises financial, safety and environmental concerns about parklets provided for outdoor dining in Baltimore.

On Thursday night in Annapolis, these three gatherings might seem like unrelated events tied by a coincidence of calendar. But they were linked by the thread of gun violence in a small town, by people striving for change and by me. I followed the thread in hopes of finding some meaning.

Baltimorean Genevie Mayo is a contestant on “The Bachelor,” and being from here is enough to make me want her to win.

The awarding of the BWI concessions management contract to a minority-owned company represents a victory for inclusion and local business, a reader said; readers differ over behavior at a meeting on a proposed conservation center at Quiet Waters Park in Anne Arundel County.

He’s not an accountant, but said his past work as a former water quality expert, riverkeeper, county councilman and communications director prepared him to be a budget director.

Two years ago, I quit a job that wasn’t right for me. It changed my life.

Dawn Flythe Moore, who made history when she became Maryland’s first Black first lady, brings to her new role a background of working in state government in Annapolis. She's well positioned to take on the responsibilities and challenges, a Goucher College political science professor says.

I’ve watched the rancor flag unfurl over Annapolis since I wrote about plans by an environmental group based in Annapolis to build an office building. On Sunday night, the Chesapeake Conservancy capitulated.

The closure of the Harvest Inn in Eldersburg is another indication of how small-town and rural life in Carroll County is changing, county resident Cindy Rosenberg says. The changes affect members of those communities in ways that go beyond altering the physical landscape, she says.

Journalists shouldn’t allow Gov. Wes Moore’s personal appeal and popularity to get in the way of holding him accountable, Banner Public Editor DeWayne Wickham says.

We came of age with lots of information about puberty, but with less guidance when it comes to menopause.

Parklets that helped Baltimore restaurants expand outdoor dining during the pandemic have also raised issues of safety, equity and cost to the city, Fells Point business owner Nicholas Johnson says.

An open letter to Mayor Gavin Buckley on how to start resolving a troubled relationship between the city and its housing authority

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.

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

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.