CURRENT EDITION: baltimore (none)🔄 Loading BlueConic...EDITION HISTORY: No changes tracked
🔵 BlueConic: ___🍪 Cookie: ___ UNKNOWN🔗 Query: ___✏️ Composer: ___
His ideas for shrinking government shaped Annapolis elections. This is his last one.
For 17 years, Bill Kardash has been the intellectual power behind the idea of shrinking city government. This will be his last hurrah in Annapolis.
The Annapolis primary election is Sept. 16, 2025, but the city offers on-demand mail-in voting. One drop-off box is set up in each of the eight wards, with plenty of signs pointing the way.
7 things to do in Annapolis: Here’s what they’re singing about at the songwriters festival
What are the local and emerging songwriters singing about during the four-day Annapolis Songwriters Festival? I asked more than 60 of them, and here’s some of what they shared.
Tavair Dominique is an Annapolis-Baltimore songwriter who will perform at 5 p.m. Friday during the four-day Annapolis Songwriters Festival.
Dear Gov. Moore, what’s wrong with vacationing in Ocean City? (and other nonsense questions)
Columnist Rick Hutzell has a few questions for Maryland Gov. Wes Moore after he was photographed sunbathing topless with his wife on George's Clooney's boat?
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JULY 06: Governor of Maryland Wes Moore speaks onstage during the 2025 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture presented by Coca-Cola - Day 3 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 06, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Baltimore has a crime problem. That’s not why Trump is threatening to send in the National Guard.
President Donald Trump’s threat is not about crime. It's not even about Baltimore or Chicago or any other of his favorite municipal punching bags. It is about power.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 14:  California National Guard soldiers (front) stand guard at a federal building on June 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Protesters held an anti-Trump "No Kings Day" demonstration in downtown Los Angeles which has been the focus of protests against Trump's immigration raids. Marches and protests against the Trump administration and its policies are taking place across the United States today. Protesters are also reacting in opposition to a planned military parade celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army in Washington, DC, coinciding with President Trump's birthday.
Annapolis’ next mayor will finish the big dig at City Dock. But what then?
When Annapolis voters elect a new mayor this fall, he or she will need to focus on finishing the reinvention of City Dock, a project that awaits federal funding.
City Dock, Annapolis, MD, May 9, 2025.
7 things to do in Annapolis, from a sculpture dedication to the county fair
Wednesday's kickoff of the Anne Arundel County Fair is among the things to do in Annapolis for the week ending Wednesday, Sept. 9.
"Dragonfly," a sheet-metal sculpture by James O'Neil, is the 19th statue on the Quiet Waters Park Sculpture trail.
This judge will resolve ‘who’s your daddy?’ Her pay raise might be unconstitutional.
Orphans' Court judges convinced the Baltimore County executive and council to give them $30,000 raises. It may have violated the Maryland Constitution.
The Baltimore County Orphans Court conducts its hearings in a series of small courtrooms on the fifth floor of the county courthouse in Towson.
When a journalist dies in Gaza, does it change how we think about this horrific war?
When a colleague urged me to write about the death of Anas Al-Sharif, a correspondent covering the war in Gaza for Al Jazeera Arabic, he hoped I would be outraged. I didn’t. Because, frankly, I don’t know how I feel. So I asked someone who was there.
Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets during the Gaza war, poses for a portrait in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2024. Dagga was one of several journalists killed along with other people in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.
Remember that ugly Annapolis billboard with the cockroach? Now, it’s Bannerific!
That billboard is still in downtown Annapolis. But wait. Is that an ad for The Baltimore Banner I see, floating majestically over City Dock? Why yes! Beauty, as I have just been reminded, is in the eye. Sometimes like a poke.
A workman installs The Banner's billboard advertisement on Aug. 26, 2025 at City Dock in Annapolis. Beauty, it turns out, is in the eye of the beholder.
7 things to do in Annapolis, from Navy football to the symphony at Quiet Waters Park
The Navy Midshipmen open their football season Saturday in Annapolis against the VMI Keydets, the first time the two schools have met since 2014. Both schools could use the diversion.
ANNAPOLIS, MD - SEPTEMBER 21:  Navy Midshipmen quarterback Blake Horvath (11) runs towards the end zone for a touchdown during the Memphis Tigers game versus the Naval Academy Midshipmen on September 21, 2024 at Navy - Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, MD.
How will the Annapolis elections turn out? Follow the money.
Annapolis is a small town where fewer than half the registered voters usually cast ballots. How much money do you need to convince 6,000 people?
Annapolis is a small town where fewer than half of registered voters usually cast ballots in municipal races.
The Democrats are coming for Andy Harris. This time they might succeed.
An unpopular Republican president, a budget bill that busts the deficit while hurting many Marylanders and election rigging in Texas could change the political fortunes of Rep. Andy Harris.
U.S. Rep. Andy Harris attends the first day of the General Assembly session in Annapolis in January.
A trip back in time. Maryland Renaissance Festival tops list of 7 things to do in Annapolis
You can still find tickets to the opening weekend of the Maryland Renaissance Festival, but here’s a guide no matter when you go. It’s one of seven great things to do in Greater Annapolis in the coming week.
The Maryland Renaissance Festival opens for the season on Saturday, a mix of costumed pagentry, music, spectacle and fantasy.
Yvette Davids wraps critique of her Naval Academy ouster in praise
On the way out the door as Naval Academy superintendent, Vice Adm. Yvette Davids wasn’t going to let anyone denigrate her institution or those who have made it a success.
Vice Adm. Yvette Davids addresses the Naval Academy superintendent’s change of command ceremony Friday in Annapolis.
I met the queen, and she sent me in search of a watermelon dream
If you could interview the watermelon queen, what would you ask? I did, and they sent me in search of meaning in the ubiquitous fruit of summer. First off, it's not a fruit, and second, growing watermelons is no dream.
Watermelon is one of the most popular fruits, except it's a gourd.
7 things to do in Annapolis: Before summer is out, go parasailing on the Chesapeake Bay
Here are five things to do in Annapolis for the week ending Wednesday Aug. 20. One option is to go parasailing before summer is gone.
Now in its fifth season, Z Sports Watersports in Annapolis takes passengers out to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and back, flying at 400 or 800 feet above the water.
Standing up to Trump the despot will require Gloria’s courage
Standing up to injustice requires courage, and every step toward despotism by President Donald Trump is another call to show it.
FILE - Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman's bayonet aside as she moves among a crowd of African Americans to convince them to disperse in Cambridge, Md., on July 21, 1963. Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, died July 15, 2021, in New York.
Trump’s controversial plan for Naval Academy demands loyalty over merit
Navy Secretary John Phelan spelled it out. The Trump administration plans to replace the Naval Academy dean, reduce the civilian faculty, increase discipline and generally screw around with the curriculum some more.
Naval Academy provost Samara L. Firebaugh addresses the Brigade of Midshipmen at the start of the new school year in August 2024.
Annapolis can do more to atone for its racist past. This election is voters’ chance.
Thirty-two years ago, Orlando Ridout IV organized the rescue of the Maynard-Burgess House in Annapolis as a form of reparations.
The Maynard-Burgess House was built in the mid-19th century and was the home of two middle-class Black families over the next 143 years.
7 things to do in Annapolis: As summer wanes, Dinner Under the Stars turns 10
Ten years after it kicked off a wave of outdoor dining in Annapolis, Dinner Under the Stars is going strong. It’s one of seven great things you could do in the coming week.
Ten years after it launched, Dining Under the Stars remains a popular Wednesday and Saturday night event in Annapolis.
Load More Stories
Oh no!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please contact customer service at 443-843-0043 or customercare@thebaltimorebanner.com.