by Michael Olesker | 8 hours ago | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In her hours of ongoing dishonor and humiliation, Catherine Pugh now awaits sentencing for her “Healthy Holly” scam and the enormous money she bilked from a bunch of enabling chumps who should have known better. Shame, shame, shame. Shame on the former mayor of... read more
by Michael Olesker | Feb 14, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
If you’ve heard this story before, then you know me pretty well. But I’ll tell it again, because it’s Valentine’s Day, and the story’s about finding love when I’d given up on it, and how that love has deepened over the last three decades. It happened when I was a mere... read more
by Michael Olesker | Feb 12, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In my distant Neanderthal youth, maybe the worst whispered insult one schoolyard jock ever gave another was, “He throws like a girl.” No explanation was needed. It meant the kid threw with the wrong foot forward, and extended his arm with a mincing motion. It also... read more
by Michael Olesker | Feb 10, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
If baseball ever had a poet laureate, his name would have been Roger Kahn, author of “The Boys of Summer.” Kahn died the other day, at 92. But his book ought to live as long as kids still want to attach narratives to games of pitch and catch. The book’s a lot of... read more
by Michael Olesker | Feb 7, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Apparently, it’s OK if President Donald Trump tries to swap Ukrainian lives to give his next presidential run a little boost. And it’s OK to stretch the truth a few dozen times in his State of the Union address. And it’s OK for him to mock people’s religious devotion.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Feb 5, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
As President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union speech Tuesday evening, Feb. 4, and counted up the reasons he thinks Americans should love him, Kweisi Mfume counted up the ballots in the 7th U.S. Congressional District special primary election. Were we... read more
by Michael Olesker | Feb 4, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Let’s put a little historical perspective around today’s voting in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, a special primary election to replace the late Rep. Elijah Cummings. It’s a district that was trashed last July by President Donald Trump, who’s never even been... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 31, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
That was a jarring reminder of suburban crime expressed the other day by Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski and Police Chief Melissa Hyatt, when they acknowledged a record-breaking 50 county homicides last year. The number’s far below Baltimore City’s 348... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 28, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
On that autumn afternoon in 1963 when I first walked into my freshman dorm at the University of Maryland, College Park, I heard my brand new roommate, Joe DiPersio, playing a guitar and singing aloud just like Bob Shane. Shane, the last of the original Kingston Trio,... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 27, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
When John Bolton was a scholarship student at Owings Mills’ McDonogh School, he learned to stand alone against heavy incoming flak. But he never had to deal with censure like he’s about to absorb. At upscale McDonogh, this working class son of a fireman out of... read more
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