Letters to the editor

The summers he and his cousins spent duckpin bowling at Southway lanes were the best, Mel Tansill says.

A City Council vote on a bill to help expand affordable housing in Baltimore is long overdue, Kevin Slayton, a city resident and clergyman, says.

Baltimore needs to prioritize emergency rental assistance to protect families from the physical and mental harm caused by evictions, representatives of two community advocacy groups say.

Anita Kassof, executive director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry, disagrees with a suggestion to move the museum from its Inner Harbor location as part of a strategy to redevelop the area,

Maryland's new Economic Council will help the state do a better job of attracting businesses and helping them to become more competitive, says Delali Dzirasa, CEO of Fearless, a digital services firm based in Baltimore.

The role of community colleges in bringing equity to higher education is all the more crucial after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action in college admission, Sandra L. Kurtinitis, president of the Community College of Baltimore County, says.

Plans for Harborplace redevelopment need more transparency, a city resident favoring a high-rise residential and retail approach says; Gov. Wes Moore understands the power of history, leaders of organizations devoted to history and preservation say.

Mayor Brandon Scott should remove Baltimore homeowner properties from the tax sale auction, as he did last year, Allison Harris, director of the Home Preservation Project at the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, says. Campuses of historically Black colleges in Maryland are among those urgently in need of modernization, Paul Clary, co-founder of MD Energy Advisors, says; the work of the state Attorney General's Office in the Baltimore Archdiocese sex abuse investigation merits praise, a city resident says.

Segregation remains a reality in Baltimore County schools, a parent of a county school student says; lack of an effective inclusionary housing policy reinforces a system that subsidizes segregation in Baltimore, a policy analyst says; families can take steps to ease the transition of people with developmental disabilities into adulthood, a services coordinator says.

All Maryland jails need to reach compliance with a requirement to offer medication-assisted treatment for opioids, U.S. Rep. David Trone says.

A scholarship program for kindergarten to 12th-grade students is the target of selective outrage, Tony Campbell, a Towson University faculty member, says. Loss of Medicare Advantage plans is putting the health of Maryland seniors at risk, Rev. Alvin Hathaway Sr., president and founder of Beloved Community Services, says. Promising and rewarding careers are available at facilities serving seniors, Allison Roenigk Ciborowski, president and CEO of LeadingAge Maryland, says.

Reading aloud to children lays the foundation for learning, says Claudia Nachtigal, head of school at The Highlands School in Bel Air.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates says residents of the most vulnerable city neighborhoods favor tougher sentences for illegal gun possession, despite opposition from some in academia.

Legislation to make the the earned income tax credit and child tax credit permanent in Maryland will help the most vulnerable, the head of Maryland Community Action Partnership says; support for Black-owned businesses is a good investment in Baltimore, Bank of America’s Maryland president says.

When police officers demonstrate a lack of empathetic humanity, incidents such as the killing of Tyre Nichols occur, a reader says. A physician says Marylanders will benefit from full implementation of the state’s family and medical leave law. Any plan for Lutherville-Timonium redevelopment must rely on the area’s history and facts about issues such as zoning, the Lutherville Community Association’s president says.

A Lutherville-Timonium redevelopment and transit spur plan offers benefits for the entire Baltimore region, two readers said. A reader raises financial, safety and environmental concerns about parklets provided for outdoor dining in Baltimore.

The awarding of the BWI concessions management contract to a minority-owned company represents a victory for inclusion and local business, a reader said; readers differ over behavior at a meeting on a proposed conservation center at Quiet Waters Park in Anne Arundel County.

Gov. Wes Moore has the opportunity to provide balance on spending and taxation, a Towson University political science faculty member says; a visitor to the Baltimore Museum of Art on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday says she was disappointed to find the museum closed.

A spike in COVID-19 and other diseases means Marylanders need more workplace protections, an attorney says; Baltimore County's Office of Inspector General needs more authority, not less, says a former reporter who covered county government.

Gov.-elect Wes Moore’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan draws a grade of “incomplete” from the head of a fisheries association; additional funding and construction called crucial to bridging the digital divide in Maryland.