Commentary

Nothing seems to inspire misinformation like immigration policy — particularly by some opportunistic Republican politicians who see an advantage in scaring the public. And that includes the GOP’s Freedom Caucus in Annapolis whose members recently called upon Gov. Wes Moore to force local governments to notify federal authorities when releasing an unauthorized immigrant subject to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer.

Long, long ago, Frederick was almost exclusively a farming community. Most of the other businesses that grew up here were created to serve farmers. Frederick County is much different today, but the remaining farms still are important to our way of life. The stunning vistas and beautiful tilled fields of our farms are a large part of the reason so many of us wanted to live here — fresh air, uncrowded open spaces, friendly communities.

Everybody likes a happy ending, at least once in a while. So you will be pleased to hear that Katherine Carver’s book on abandoned dogs is full of happy endings — that is, lots of adoptions. Most of the dogs she photographed and profiled found new homes. But Carver’s book, “Abandoned: Chronicling the Journeys of Once-Forsaken Dogs,” is not all warm and fuzzy.

My sister called me in tears after her first supplemental oxygen delivery. It was July 2013. At the time, she was a 41-year-old mother to a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old, and worked part-time as an occupational nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland. We have a rare lung disease called primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), and because of the resulting lung damage, called bronchiectasis, we were both prescribed supplemental oxygen.

I’ve spent the last month time traveling back to the ’90s in a marathon rewatching all seven seasons of my favorite show, “Homicide: Life On The Street,” finally streaming on Peacock. Filmed largely in and around Fells Point, it’s a sometimes grim but achingly hopeful love letter to Baltimore. Taking it in again, all these years later, I realized I’d missed the characters like they were dear friends, none more than tragically cocky hot shot Detective Mike Kellerman, a former arson squad detective whose meteoric rise and spectacular fall are a focus in seasons 4-6.

Last month, Denise Prudhomme, a 60-year-old Wells Fargo employee from Tempe, Arizona, was found dead at her desk by a bank security guard who was investigating reports of a foul odor in the building. Records show that Ms. Prudhomme scanned into the office early Friday morning on August 16, and she was discovered on Tuesday, August 20 — four days later.