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No defense can stop the Saints, or the NFL’s other elite offenses, for four quarters. The New Orleans offense, designed by Sean Payton and orchestrated by Drew Brees, posed the greatest test of the season for a Ravens defense that had been the best in the league through six weeks. For three quarters,...
Normally by this time of year, Western Maryland would be blanketed with oranges, reds and yellows of autumn foliage. But a rainy and hot summer and fall mean that color has appeared only briefly and in pockets. “It’s not our typical fall,” said Melissa Nash, Garrett County forester, in a Maryland...
Howard County is considering a proposal to require new single-family houses and apartments to have infrastructure to support charging stations for electric vehicles. “We are concerned about the environment and we think electric vehicles will help,” said Jen Terrasa, a Democratic member of the County...
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco is playing some of his best football in years. Maintaining that level against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday may be a difficult task with two starters on the offensive line being deactivated. The team announced before the game that right tackle James Hurst and left...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's big reveal that she's got a little Native American DNA in her deserves all the mockery it's getting. But I just want to use it as an excuse to explain why I hate the way we talk about DNA and identity. Consider Kyle Merker. You've probably seen the Ancestry.com commercial...
Whether it comes to schooling, housing, postal service or libraries, privatization efforts have always been met with fierce resistance in Maryland. In the latest anti-privatization episode, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh signed legislation this summer that would make Baltimore the first city in...
This year, 529 women filed to run in Congressional races, a number that shatters all previous records. To date, 262 women are still in the running for those seats. Three-fourths of these women are Democrats. There are a host of reasons as to why these numbers are so uneven across party lines, but...
A word for young people, people of color and, in particular, young people of color: The Republicans are scared of you. Maybe you find that hard to believe. Maybe you wonder how the party can be scared of you -- or of anybody -- given that it controls all three branches of the federal government...
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Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh on Friday appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court an earlier decision by a federal court that struck down a Maryland law to curb unreasonable price increases for generic drugs. The General Assembly passed the so-called “price-gouging” law in 2017 at the urging of...
Horseshoe Casino Baltimore announced a multi-year marketing deal with the Baltimore Ravens on Friday that will allow the casino to use team trademarks and logos and is expected help it take advantage of its proximity to M&T Bank Stadium. It’s the second-ever partnership between an NFL team and...
Executives with Tradepoint Atlantic, the industrial and logistics campus being developed on the former site of Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point, say they plan to pare down a request for millions of dollars in government-assisted financing for infrastructure and other needs at the site. Aaron Tomarchio,...
The jackpot chasers don't buy lottery tickets. Not habitually, anyway. But they typically emerge when they see the Mega Millions prize tick up and up and up, and they figure, "Hell, why not?" That's by design. And if you have noticed a run of eye-popping jackpots from Mega Millions and the similarly...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the best-known comedic actresses of her generation, and now she's been recognized with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor for a lifetime in comedy. She is the 21st person the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has honored with the award. Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen...
Africa Umoja: ‘The Spirit of Togetherness’ Dancers, singers and other performers from South Africa unite for a vibrant display of tribal dances, plus a tribute to Nelson Mandela in his centennial year. Baltimore is one of only five U.S. stops for this tour, so take advantage. 2 p.m. Oct. 21, 27...
The most delicious season of the year, when taste buds get to revel in the glory of Thin Mints, Shortbreads, Peanut Butter Patties and other Girl Scout cookies, has finally arrived. Beginning Friday, Girl Scout cookies — which besides being awesomely tasty are the products of the country’s largest...
M&S Grill, a McCormick & Schmick restaurant located in the Inner Harbor, has closed. Opened in October 2003 at Harborplace, the establishment’s lease expired on Sunday and the parent company Landry’s Inc. chose not to renew it, said Landry’s Inc. chief operating officer Howard Cole in an email....
White Marsh resident Samuel Demisse isn’t your average coffee connoisseur — the owner and founder of Keffa Coffee is a purist of sorts. He rises every morning around 7 a.m. to indulge in his own stash, freshly brewing three specialty coffees to start his day sans milk and sugar. Later that afternoon,...
After 10 years of searching like Captain Ahab at sea, a Coppin State University professor thinks he may have found a lost Herman Melville manuscript that includes tantalizing hints of what later would become his masterpiece, “Moby-Dick.” Humanities professor Roger Stritmatter thinks the unsigned,...
What happens when a courageous widow, well-connected best friend and a compassionate publisher join forces to realize a late writer’s dream? “Float Plan.” Rob Hiaasen spent nights and weekends for the better part of the last decade tweaking his masterpiece: a fiction novel. Well-known for his unique...
For nearly a decade, opposition to former President Barack Obama's health care law has been a winning message for Nebraska Republicans. It's helped them win every statewide office, control the Legislature and hold all the state's congressional seats. So it was something of a surprise for Bob Tatum...
President Donald Trump said Saturday that Republicans are planning to implement a "very major tax cut" for middle-income earners before next month, even though Congress is out of session until after November's midterm elections. After his campaign rally in this northeastern Nevada town, Trump talked...
Democratic hopes for a wave election that would carry them to a significant House majority have been tempered in recent weeks amid a shifting political landscape and a torrent of hard-hitting attack ads from Republicans. Democrats remain favored to win, but GOP leaders believe they can minimize...
At virtually every campaign stop, Maryland’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Ben Jealous, tells a story about the one that got away. The tale comes from the former NAACP president’s years as a venture capitalist, and it involves a Canadian businessman who was looking to open a manufacturing plant...
For months, Democrat Ben Jealous’ campaign for governor has publicly predicted a “blue wave” of turnout from progressive voters that will sweep Republican Gov. Larry Hogan out of office. But on a recent media call with reporters, the campaign said its own models indicate that registered Democrats...
The company trying to bring back a surveillance airplane to help in Baltimore’s crime fight does not have a license to conduct business in Maryland, state records show. Questions about the standing of the company, Persistent Surveillance Systems, were among a number of concerns raised by City Council...