Rick Hutzell

As Diesha Contee prepares for her first Annapolis City Council meeting Monday, it’s a good moment to ask, what if? A campaign without a paid staff, with just $2,700 to spend on the primary, might never have known that primary results were counted in reverse.

For Matt and Bridget Jones, a dream launched from the depths of COVID-19 isolation will end before Christmas. There are just two runs of Wildberry Farm + Market, but something new is on the way.

Even if you’ve followed this stuff for years, even if you know the difference between a Taylor float and a Secchi disk, it can be hard to have hope about the future of the Chesapeake Bay. I’m here to help.

Ask Maryland Democrats if they would support a president who breaks all the rules, behaves like a despot and uses America’s divides for personal and political gain — but did it to advance ideas they support — and they would say no. Yet here we are, on the precipice of an unwise change to congressional boundaries.

I’ve talked to Gavin Buckley plenty of times. But, after eight years of interviews with the mayor, I asked for one more hour of his time. I wanted to talk about the day terror arrived in Annapolis.

The Grand Illumination that kicks off the calendar filled with events that make Annapolis a perennial contender on national lists of the best Christmas towns.

For a small town, Annapolis has a double shot of coffee shops. Here’s a guide to the essential spots, plus a look at more great things to do in the coming week.

As criticism of Chuck Schumer’s leadership rises after Democrats’ collapse on the shutdown, you have to strain to hear anything but loyalty from Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks.

Annapolis Alderman Rob Savidge is working to launch a feasibility study that could solve two of the city’s most nagging problems — too few homes and too many cars.

If anyone knows what makes Jane Austen’s world tick, it’s British playwright Emma Whipday. Her adaptation of the 19th-century author’s most famous work debuts Friday.

Not everything in Congress is paralyzed. There’s a quiet push to open space at Walter Reed National Medical Center and other DOD hospitals to veterans.

Election Day comes along and — bam! — victories in New York City, California, Virginia and New Jersey prove there’s life left in this ol’ political bag of wool called the Democratic Party.

What to do about schools has long been a question for Annapolis. Keeping them from withering is the city’s next big challenge.

Writer Rodney Barnes has adapted the tale of the old state mental hospital into “Crownsville,” a supernatural thriller. Barnes will sign copies at Third Eye Comics on Saturday, one of seven great things to do in the coming week.

In Maryland's largest counties, 128,000 people take advantage of the tax credits for insurance through the Affordable Care Act. But it's Maryland's smallest, poorest counties where the impact will be the deepest.

Forty-eight hours from Election Day, Democrat Jared Littmann’s campaign for mayor has an air of inevitability about it. How did Annapolis get to the point where the election feels like a foregone conclusion?

Halloween is the day to take out your fears and examine them, to laugh at what gives you the willies. Dress them up in silly costumes, throw candy at them and hope they don’t get angry.

British folk great Richard Thompson performs Sunday at St. John’s College in the first of five “Rams Head Presents” shows through December, concerts that take the music out of the West Street club onto the city’s biggest stages.

The Maryland Port Administration is auctioning off the Mary Lynn, a 1962 wooden Trumpy yacht it used for tours of the harbor for 40 years. It can be yours, as is, for as little as $50,000.

Annapolis is changing the name on the Noah Hillman Parking Garage, a downtown memorial for a respected alderman. Twenty years before he was elected, Hillman was the lawyer for one of Maryland’s most notorious racists, George Fox.