DEK: Decisions have set county on an unsustainable path. Let’s look at the work from home (WFH) trend. There are basically two sides. Many businesses have mandated “go back to the office” and return to life before the pandemic. Many workers say, “I’m never coming back into an office so just pay me as you did before COVID but now I’m doing it from wherever I want with no windshield time.”
For almost 100 years, a Navy research lab worked on secret projects just across the Severn River from the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The David Taylor Research Center opened in 1903, and at its peak in the 1960s employed more than 1,400 engineers, metallurgists, chemists and others working to make the ships and subs smarter, faster and quieter.
If, as expected, Kevin Brown returns to the MASN microphone Friday night to call the game between the Orioles and Mariners, he might want to skip the part about Baltimore’s record against Seattle since 2016. It isn’t pretty, and the mention might get Brown another suspension. KB should probably leave out the part about Seattle’s starting pitcher having a better earned run average than Baltimore’s. Why go there? The boss might not like that.
The National Pastime takes on an added dimension when your team is doing well, becoming a soul-massaging diversion from the ubiquitous bad news of the day. The Orioles’ recent success has shaken loose memories of glory days gone by — and spurred hope for the future. Sitting with my grandkids on a muggy summer day, I recall going to my first game, in 1953, a minor-league affair in the old one-level Municipal Stadium on 33rd Street.
Frederick’s aldermen have identified an important problem, highlighting the fact that the city has been collecting millions of dollars from developers that is supposed to go to build affordable housing and school facilities, but failing to spend the money. Since 2019, the city has received nearly $6 million in school mitigation fees — levied on developments where schools are already overcrowded — and almost $5 million for affordable housing, which was paid by developers rather than include affordable units in their projects.
It’s no accident that when television crews seek an attractive backdrop for Baltimore, they inevitably find themselves looking out across the waterfront. With views of Rash Field, Inner Harbor East, the Domino Sugars sign, the Silo Point high-rise and Harborplace, there is something that draws us in, some elemental need to visit the water’s edge.
On Aug. 6, 1926, the Democratic Advocate newspaper carried an article on the local “efforts of the newly formed Law and Order League for Carroll County.” According to historian Jay Graybeal, “The ratification of the 18th Amendment in January 1919 ushered in Prohibition but also spawned efforts, legal and otherwise, to thwart the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages. A majority of Carroll Countians had supported Prohibition, and some took an active role in supporting its enforcement.”
As a woman competing in the world of sports, I have had the privilege of witnessing firsthand the tremendous strength, skill and determination that female athletes bring to the field. Yet, we continue to face numerous challenges and obstacles. We all need to come together to support and uplift women in sports, empowering them to overcome the challenges and shatter the glass ceilings that persist in athletics.
It’s not easy running a beach town. Each summer, Ocean City explodes from a relatively quiet town of about 7,000 year-round residents to more than 300,000 people on busy July and August weekends. Hundreds of seasonal police officers, lifeguards and boardwalk shuttle drivers, along with thousands of temporary tourism industry workers manning the motels, shops, bars and eateries, are hired to handle the daunting task of managing an anticipated collective total of 8 million visitors each year.