by Michael Olesker | 13 hours ago | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
By his own accounting, the young student Michael Bloomberg needed precisely the kind of financial help getting through Johns Hopkins University that he’s now extending to future Hopkins kids – thousands of them, who are smart, who are driven, but aren’t loaded with... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 14, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
The hellish fires in California have combined with modern technology to take us where humanity has never been before this: to play-by-play descriptions of the apparent final moments of human life, unedited, for all to share in the experience. The fires have now,... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 12, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In his mad rush to catch up to history, President Donald Trump this week bestows the nation’s highest civilian honor on a fellow out of West Baltimore named George Herman “Babe” Ruth Jr. This comes a mere seven decades after the Babe went to his grave.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 7, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
The last time Maryland elected a Republican governor to a second term, his name was Theodore McKeldin, a man who would be regarded today as a Democrat in hiding. Maybe Larry Hogan noticed. McKeldin was a liberal Republican – a term that’s become an oxymoron – and the... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 5, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Americans go to the midterm voting booths with some remarkable new numbers just below their radar. Across the country, there’s been a phenomenal growth in the number of political candidates who are female, people of color, gay, lesbian and transgender. According to a... read more
by Michael Olesker | Oct 31, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In the aftermath of the synagogue murders in Pittsburgh, it was nice to hear the president of the United States say the proper words about anti-Semitism. He said he’s against it. It would have been nicer if he didn’t follow that statement by joking within hours about... read more
by Michael Olesker | Oct 28, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
God Himself must wish to turn away from the awful events taking place in America these days. The Shabbat shootings in Pittsburgh were so heartbreaking that they almost – almost – make us forget the pipe bomb mailings of a few days earlier, which might have resulted in... read more
by Michael Olesker | Oct 25, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In the great Baltimore game of postwar ethnic politics, it was the Jewish kingmaker, Jack Pollack, who helped the Italian-Catholic candidate, Thomas “Tommy the Elder” D’Alesandro Jr., win his first mayoral election. Shortly thereafter, in the time-honored tradition,... read more
by Michael Olesker | Oct 24, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
I like Del. Sandy Rosenberg’s optimism, if not his odds. In an interview with WBAL’s Brett Hollander, the Democrat and 41st District delegate said he likes the chances of the Preakness Stakes remaining at Pimlico Race Course. The track’s located in Rosenberg’s... read more
by Michael Olesker | Oct 22, 2018 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Leave it to the late newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin to get a street-level fix on Donald Trump, roughly 20 years ago when the future president was taking out full-page ads demanding the death penalty for four black kids accused – falsely – of attacking a young white... read more
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