by Michael Olesker | May 22, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Could we have a six-way campaign for mayor of Baltimore in which nobody in town really wants anybody in the race to win? That’s the real message in this week’s front-page political poll story in The Sun. The headline read, “It’s a three-way race.” But this is a... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 20, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
To a generation now mourning the passing of actor Ken Osmond — aka, Eddie Haskell — the best moments on TV’s “Leave It to Beaver” always involved the mischievous Eddie trying to sneak a fast one past the grownups. “Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver,” he said one... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 18, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
They tell me radio’s in big trouble these days, because nobody’s listening in their cars and what businesses want to blow advertising money on stations where nobody’s listening? This makes me think of Johnny Walker. Naturally, the villain of this piece is the... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 13, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
I ask this question in genuine perplexity, no sarcasm attached: How does Donald Trump fall asleep at night? When the president slipped into bed last night, Tuesday, May 12, which way did his worries turn first — toward Capitol Hill or the U.S. Supreme Court? On... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 11, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
When the young Richard Penniman unleashed “Tutti Frutti” on an innocent America in the fall of 1955, the big Top 40 hits were Georgia Gibbs singing “Dance with Me, Henry,” The McGuire Sisters doing “Sincerely,” and a fellow named Bill Hayes and his rendition of “The... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 8, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Sheila Dixon’s TV commercials open with a man who distorts history and clearly hopes no one will notice. Dixon’s running for mayor of Baltimore, trying to get the job right this time around. The man in the commercial tells us she was great the first time around. “Take... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 6, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
On one of the last evenings of his life, I asked my father what he remembered about the day World War II finally ended in Europe. He was in the U.S. Army Air Corps, stationed on a base in Foggia, Italy. It was 75 years ago this week. “What did you do when you heard... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 4, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Twenty-five years ago this week –- May 5, 1995 — we lost Al Sanders. He was a news anchor for WJZ-TV’s Eyewitness News when anchors were seen as cultural icons and local TV was changing the way people got their news. Sanders was also, for a remarkable decade in... read more
by Michael Olesker | May 1, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
The Baltimore Sun now comes to a crossroads moment: all local efforts to buy the newspaper from the Chicago Tribune corporation, quietly conducted over the past dozen years, are now going public. At stake is the very character of the 173-year-old Sun, whose dwindling... read more
by Michael Olesker | Apr 29, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
The longer this coronavirus plague lasts, the greater the danger for my favorite part of the daily newspaper — the sports section. How do you have a sports section when there aren’t any sports to cover? Around here, it was big news the other day when a former... read more
Read the latest views and thoughts from Jmore Publisher Scott Rifkin, MD 