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Rick Hutzell

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Rick Hutzell has worked as a journalist in Annapolis since 1987, and knows the city and its people about as well as anyone can. A native Marylander, Rick lives in Annapolis with his wife, Chara. They have two grown children and enjoy life in a city on the Chesapeake Bay.

The latest from Rick Hutzell

Streetcars in Annapolis? Rob Savidge’s vision could be the future for the state capital
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.
Alderman Rob Savidge, center right, listens as Marco Mulder of the firm Arcadis, far right, talks about sustainable design elements during a tour of the Dutch city of Scheveningen in November 2023.
7 things to do in Annapolis: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ on stage for Jane Austen’s 250th
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.
The Compass Rose production of "Pride and Prejudice" features Caleigh Riordan Davis as Elizabeth Bennet and Gaven Heglar as Mr. Darcy, surrounded by a cast of 10 supporting actors.
Walter Reed Medical Center is expanding. Veterans could fill its new beds.
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.
Navy Capt. Melissa Austin, director of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, cuts a cake during opening ceremonies for the new Roosevelt Pavilion in June with Capt. Jeffrey Klinger,
Could last week’s elections be (gasp!) the end of the beginning?
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.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 06: U.S. President Donald Trump appears at an event on lowering drug prices in the Oval Office at the White House on November 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced that his administration has reached agreements with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk that would lower the price of some GLP-1 weight loss medications. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The problem with Annapolis schools isn’t what you think. It’s worse.
What to do about schools has long been a question for Annapolis. Keeping them from withering is the city’s next big challenge.
Annapolis Elementary is the oldest school building in continuous use in Maryland. It also is one of the most under enrolled schools in Annapolis.
7 things to do in Annapolis: Comic book author reimagines Crownsville hospital’s horrors
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.
Familiar Annapolis landmarks, places and events feature throughout the narrative and art in "Crownsville."
Andy Harris ignores the pain of ending Obamacare tax credits at his political peril
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.
U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, an Eastern Shore Republican, talks with reporters about a potential government shutdown while attending the J. Millard Tawes Crab & Clam Bake in Crisfield on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.
The inevitability of Jared Littmann as Annapolis’ next mayor
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?
Jared Littmann walked in the Annapolis Pride Parade on Oct. 18, 2025, nearing the finish line of his two year campaign for mayor.
Bugs, bats and American adventurism in the Caribbean. What scares you on Halloween?
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.
7 things to do in Annapolis: Rams Head fall concert series includes folk great Richard Thompson
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.
Richard Thompson.
Yacht for sale: Maryland Port Administration auctions off a piece of Chesapeake history
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.
The Mary Lynn, a 70-foot made in Annapolis by John Trumpy & Sons, is waiting in a Cambridge yacht yard for a new owner. The Maryland Port Administration decided it had outlived its usefulness as a port ambassador.
Noah Hillman argued Black teachers weren’t equal. Annapolis is renaming his garage.
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.
Noah Hillman, center, with Arthur Ellington, left, and an unidentified man at a City Hall meeting in the late 1950s. Both Hillman and Ellington were members of the city council who served brief tenures as interim mayor.
7 things to do in Annapolis: How not to spend $4,500 on an Army-Navy ticket
The better Navy football is, the harder it can be to get good tickets.
U.S. Naval Academy pet and mascot, Bill the Goat, on the sidelines during the 125th Annual Army-Navy Game held at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md. on Saturday, December 14, 2024.
With billions at stake, Maryland must up its game in the turbulent biotech economy
Suddenly, the competition for biotech investment and jobs looks different, as entrepreneurs and investors seek resources to fund medical science, biopharma and medtech.
At Impact Maryland, a Baltimore Banner symposium, leaders of Baltimore’s biotech economy spoke in a panel discussion.
What does it take to lead Annapolis? Here’s what 4 former mayors have to say.
Annapolis is about to pick a new mayor for the first time in eight years in an election that will also remake the City Council. Here are thoughts on what makes a good mayor from people who’ve done the job.
Bob O'Shea, the Republican candidate for mayor in Annapolis, was out sign-waving early on Sept. 16, 2025, even though he's not on the ballot until November. He was at the Eastport Annapolis Neck Library with Courtney Spangler and Marvin Charles. Charles' wife, Alderwoman Rhonda Pindell Charles, faces former alderman Jared Littmann in the Democratic primary.
7 things to do in Annapolis: Pride Parade and Festival adds new element to October
Events in Annapolis this week, including a the hosting of a previously postponed Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival and the Ballet Theatre of Maryland.
Josh Seefried holds a rainbow umbrella as he walks in the Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival on June 1, 2024.
3 women grads of the Naval Academy are running for office. Pete Hegseth should take notice.
Mikie Sherrill. Amy McGrath. Eileen Laubacher. All Naval Academy graduates, all running for office. Fifty years after the first women entered the academy, they represent a generational moment of change.
Democrat Mikie Sherrill responds to questions during the first general election gubernatorial debate with Republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli.
No, Gov. Moore, the military is not going to come to our rescue. It’s up to us.
What Moore said feels like almost as dangerous a fantasy — that the military might save the republic from becoming a military dictatorship by disobeying a presidential order.
Gov. Wes Moore at the Warfield Air National Guard Base during the deactivation ceremony for the A-10C Thunderbolt.
Family sells Chesapeake schooner business after three decades. ‘We’ve become iconic now.’
Jen Kaye and her family have sold Schooner Woodwind to 59º North Sailing, a rare change in the rarefied field of commercial sailing.
Jen Kaye, center, talks about selling her family business to a new family. She was joined by buyers, from left, Mia Karlsson, Andy Schell, Ryan Ellison and her father, Ken Kaye.
7 things to do in Annapolis: Spanish guitarist opens Annapolis Symphony Orchestra season
Spanish guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas joins the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra for its season-opening concerts, “A New World.” Along with the Annapolis Sailboat Show, it’s one of seven great things to do in the coming week.
Pablo Sainz-Villegas joins the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra for “Mistico y Profano,” a concerto written for him by composer Arturo Márquez.
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