Baltimore Sun Columnists

Kevin Cowherd

Kevin Cowherd

Emotional Friedgen tries to keep focus on Military Bowl - December 22, 2010 - — Ralph Friedgen walked into the ballroom at the Renaissance Hotel Wednesday evening determined to keep his emotions in check. By my...

Ravens, fans should relish win over Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints - December 19, 2010 - This was one of the great scenes of this Ravens season, and it came in the moments immediately after that huge 30-24 win over the New...

Time for Ravens to scare rest of NFL - December 15, 2010 - I am not one of those people who say the Ravens are going down the tubes.

Jay Hancock

Jay Hancock

Universities tiptoe into taming costs with efficiency - December 19, 2010 - Making a car in the age of computers and automation requires fewer than a fifth of the workers that the same task took half a century ago,...

Owners' actions argue for seizure of horse tracks - December 13, 2010 - Eminent domain, which gives government authority to forcibly purchase private property, is a last resort in countries that aren't run by...

St. Joseph should review additional Midei cases - December 12, 2010 - Compassionate care for everybody is St. Joseph Medical Center's mission. You can decide whether the hospital's decision to suppress its...

Jacques Kelly

Jacques Kelly

Bringing Christmas cheer to cloistered nuns - December 24, 2010 - My late mother had many tricks up her sleeve on Christmas Day, but none made her happier than the distribution of a couple of dozen...

Highlandtown train garden carries on a Baltimore tradition - December 17, 2010 - Have I ever encountered a Baltimore Christmas garden I didn't like? As a child, I spent my late Decembers going from one city fire company...

One way or another, that tree will cost you - December 10, 2010 - Forgive me if I tell this story one more time. I had a flashback the other Sunday morning when my father gave me a lift to the downtown...

Marta H. Mossburg

Marta H. Mossburg

Want to feel rich? Think like the government - December 20, 2010 - Feeling pinched this Christmas season? Are your credit cards tapped from buying gifts? Are you underwater on your mortgage and wondering...

Md. needs deeper commitment to transparency - December 6, 2010 - Saying Maryland has a balanced budget is akin to believing Lady Gaga is a natural blonde.

Turns out Google's free e-mail is worth every penny - November 22, 2010 - Last Thursday, someone hacked into one of my two Gmail accounts. He or she sent a message to my contacts saying that I had been mugged...

Mike Preston

Mike Preston

Ravens cornerback Webb is all the way back from ACL injury - December 23, 2010 - Last Sunday against the New Orleans saints, Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb was looking for secondary coach Chuck Pagano on the sideline....

Ravens QB Joe Flacco looked like Trent Dilfer, but it was a good thing - December 20, 2010 - When Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis delivered his speech to the team Saturday night, there was a message for both the players and coaches.

Ravens run game proves that old-school still works - December 19, 2010 - The Ravens went old school on Sunday, as running back Ray Rice breathed new life into this team.

Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer

One soon-to-be grandmother's advice: Don't sweat the small stuff - December 16, 2010 - Years ago, I was waiting to give a speech to a group of high-powered mothers in Ohio when a conversation caught my attention.

Blue collar America's turn away from marriage - December 13, 2010 - Middle America, the mythical heartland where God, country and family are held in sacred esteem, appears to be turning its back on...

Let mothers lead fight against youth sports injuries - December 9, 2010 - Patti James was in Toronto with her husband when she got the call no parent wants to receive. Her football-playing son was in a Little...

Dan Rodricks

Dan Rodricks

Once a darner, always a darner - December 20, 2010 - With one exception — the woman who snapped that she no longer darns socks because "women have better things to do" —...

ISO: Americans with darning eggs - December 19, 2010 - I would like to know if anyone still darns socks. Please call and leave your name and number at 410-332-6166. It's for a study I've...

Recession changing Baltimore region's housing paradigm - December 16, 2010 - Memo to the mayor of Baltimore and City Council members: The housing bust and the recession have made significantly more homes in the...

Peter Schmuck

Peter Schmuck

Ravens, Browns playing for a lot more than a win - December 25, 2010 - If you don't think the Cleveland Browns are a dangerous team, you obviously did not see them throw a fourth-quarter scare into the...

All I want for Christmas is college football playoffs - December 24, 2010 - Dear Santa,

Who's on first? O's may need to rethink position - December 21, 2010 - It's almost Christmas and the Orioles still have a gaping hole in their lineup, which makes it fair to wonder if they are so far behind...

Thomas F. Schaller

Thomas F. Schaller

Obama should ditch 'hope' and try for 'nope' - December 13, 2010 - Candidate Barack Obama won the White House by campaigning on a theme of "hope." If he really wants to do the nation a great service,...

A backward-looking nation - November 29, 2010 - If federal spending reveals a nation's priorities, America is a country far less invested in its future than it is fixated upon and...

Revenge of the retirees: the new generation gap - November 15, 2010 - When he ran for president in 2008, Barack Obama said he didn't believe in a country divided into Blue America and Red America. But the...

Ron Smith

Ron Smith

The American empire approaches its limits - December 16, 2010 - Liberty exists only in the brief time between the fall of one tyranny and the rise of another. The nation's founders understood this...

Party's future is bleak, thanks to demographics - December 9, 2010 - When asked about the future of the Republican Party in Maryland, the only answer I can come up with is, "There isn't one." This state is...

Neither party willing to take on 'Washington rules' - December 2, 2010 - In this week of WikiLeaks, "Slurpee Summits" and lame ducks quacking in the halls of Congress, an underlying and most disturbing reality...

Some say it's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt. I disagree.
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