Well, this is new. Spring is here and the Orioles — as a new Major League Baseball season dawns — are picked by most baseball forecasters to compete for the AL East title; with oddsmakers predicting the Orioles and Yankees at the top of the division.
The terrible, metal-twisting, stomach-churning collapse of the suspension portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the 1.6-mile-long link between Dundalk and Hawkins Point over the Patapsco River, after a support column was struck by the container ship Dali early Tuesday morning has left Baltimoreans — and many others around the globe — stunned and disbelieving.
Come Thursday, baseball will return to Camden Yards, marking the actual official start of spring here in Baltimore. Trees will bloom, days will grow longer and hotter, and the Orioles, a winter removed from a magical season we hoped would never end, will try for an encore.
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking on several levels and for many reasons. I’ll start with just three: Because we’ve never seen such a thing around here before and never imagined it; because millions of people have traveled over the bridge and could easily see themselves out there, even after 1 a.m.; and because the bridge was a point of pride stretching across the Patapsco River and Baltimore’s civic psyche.
How do we measure the Baltimore region’s economic momentum? Do we know if the growth is advancing our strategic industries? Are we creating opportunities that are equitable or accessible to our workforce? These are the types of questions we can and should be equipped to answer. It will start with a better understanding of our progress and what’s in our investment pipeline fueling our next iteration of opportunities.
I have spent my entire career with Peter Angelos and I’m now about to retire after 58 years of law practice. I have been fortunate enough to be at his side throughout the entirety of the wild ride our careers experienced. While I’ve been with him for the legal and business achievements, including the acquisition of the Baltimore Orioles, I’ve also been with him for his myriad contributions to the lives of Baltimoreans and Marylanders that few people will ever know about. He wanted it that way.
On a daily basis, thousands of customers call Maryland businesses to order food, refill medications, or request services. These calls are often motivated by the advertising done by businesses through promotional materials, such as direct mailings and television advertisements. Customers know what they want and from whom, so they call the business, and money and products are exchanged. But under a dangerous ruling recently made by the Maryland Supreme Court, this longstanding and widely understood way of conducting business would disappear.
According to the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, 656 large data breaches affected state residents in 2023 and exposed their personal information online, creating the opportunity for countless instances of identity theft and fraud. As a lawyer who represents victims of identity theft, I see what happens when hackers open fraudulent accounts.
A woman who is the head of a multigenerational household lives in the East Baltimore home that has been in her family for 66 years. She has been struggling to afford her property taxes and home repairs, but she doesn’t give up. Her grandparents worked so hard to keep this house with the family. So, she is going to fight to keep it.
Decades before Peter G. Angelos, multi-millionaire baseball team owner, came off as ruthless, headstrong and too eager to pick a fight, he was known to Baltimoreans in 1959 as a 29-year-old, fresh-faced City Council member who could be ruthless, headstrong and eager to fight.
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