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Obama Focusing on Job Creation in Baltimore Visit

(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama is leaving behind scandal-focused Washington to focus on the country's slowly improving jobs picture. Obama is to fly by...

Power Outages Big Fear As Storm Bears Down On DC

(HAGERSTOWN, Md.) — After pummeling the nation's midsection with heavy snow, a late-winter storm made its way Wednesday to the nation's capital, where residents...

When Bad Bets Happen to Good Mayors

There are many reasons i should not be mayor of a major city, like my tendency--in even minor tense situations--to overuse the Bat-Signal. But I would be great...

A San Franciscan’s Superbowl Ode to Baltimore

Worried that the mayors of Baltimore and San Francisco would just offer each other crabs for their Super Bowl bet, I used the Awesome Column to get San...

The Wonderful Weirdness of Super Bowl XLVII

A blackout, wild momentum swings, fodder for second guessing: this Super Bowl had it all. How the Baltimore Ravens pulled off the win.

For The Super Bowl, A Family Affair

The Harbaugh brothers, Jim and John, will face off in the Super Bowl when the San Francisco 49ers meet the Baltimore Ravens

Hot Market for Homes Selling Under $10,000

A market for ultra-cheap homes has emerged in cities around the U.S., and the result is that in many cases it’s much less expensive to buy a house than it would...

MARTIN O'MALLEY / BALTIMORE: Wonk 'n' Roller

Twice since Martin O'Malley was elected mayor six years ago, Baltimore has been hit by blizzards. Each time, he had city workers phone as many as 25,000 elderly...

Cinema: Baltimore Aureole

It's the 1950s--the last time, we nostalgically think, when the American middle-class narrative was coherent, predictable: everyone in his place and a...

Baltimore Bullets

SHOW: HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET TIME: JAN. 31, AFTER THE SUPER BOWL, NBC THE BOTTOM LINE: Hollywood heavyweight Barry Levinson tries a cop show. It's good,...