David Simon may be a MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner and a television deity for creating “The Wire,” but he got his start on the crime beat at The Baltimore Sun, he explained in an interview today with The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog. It was in that Charm City newsroom that Simon cut Read More
Yesterday on the Yes Network’s broadcast of the Yankees game, former pitching great Jim Kaat, commenting on Baltimore pitcher Adam Loewen’s long deliberations with catcher Raul Chavez over pitch selection, said that the coaches used to say, “Study Long/Study Wrong.” This is probably helpful for a lot of disciplines. A contractor friend likes to say, Read More
LAURIE: Ladies, gentlemen, listen up. You want all of your wedding vendors, and especially your cake maker, to think like (or be) Duff Goldman.
“I’m kind of the anti-wedding industry wedding vendor,” said Mr. Goldman, proprietor of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, Maryland. “The wedding industry is designed to rip people Read More
“I think for The Sun, and for most papers our size, that the mission is to be the definitive source of state, regional and local news,” Timothy Franklin said.
Mr. Franklin has been editor of The Baltimore Sun for two and a half years. He was sitting at a conference table in his office the Read More
“I think for The Sun, and for most papers our size, that the mission is to be the definitive source of state, regional and local news,” Timothy Franklin said.
Mr. Franklin has been editor of The Baltimore Sun for two and a half years. He was sitting at a conference table in his office Read More
I am a Yankee hater (I grew up in Baltimore). My friend Dan Swanson is also a Yankee-hater, of the Chicago White Sox variety. I polled him on his feelings following the Yankees sweep of the world champions this past weekend in the Bronx:
I don’t worry about it. I barely paid it any attention. Read MoreA week or so back I did a snarky take on Laurel Snyder’s new book, Half-Life: Jew-ish Tales From Interfaith Homes and a reading she had at Makor , then walked away whistling. But after trying to comment on my post and being foiled somehow by the Observer’s system (apologies), Read More
On Charlie Rose, that is. The outgoing Harvard President was on for an hour, rebroadcast just now. It was interesting to see him up close at last. Some observations:
Summers seems a business executive by temperament. He’s too tan and doesn’t miss meals. He’s bold. The strongest impression of the hour was how Read More
Slithering out.
Troubled Amtrak has long worked well in the Northeast Corridor–Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, various Connecticut cities, Providence, Boston.
So now the Bush administration, according to The New York Times, has a new solution: Charge surplus-addled commuter rail systems in those cities for their use of Amtrak facilities–tracks, stations, etc. Read More
One of Bill Weld’s donors is an indicted Massachussets pol, Tom Finneran, the Boston Globe reports.
And Uptown Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat shares a byline in Baltimore with blogger/activist David Sirota, calling for states to force employers to offer health insurance.
