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Kyle Goon: With deadline deals, Mike Elias is asking for faith in 2026 he hasn’t earned
The Orioles traded nine big leaguers for 16 prospects, all in the minors. It doesn't set them up for a successful 2026, unless you believe the front office is going to surprise us all this offseason.
A sparse crowd watches Orioles starter Dean Kremer pitch during Wednesday’s game at Camden Yards.
All wars end. Then there’s Market House in Annapolis.
For such a small building, the Market House in Annapolis contains a big history of fighting. It was the first fight of Mayor Gavin Buckley's administration, and here at the end eight years later, it looks like it might be the last.
Willie Hughes serves up drinks to a bar full of late lunchers at the Market House. He's been working there for a year after moving to Annapolis from Iowa.
Jon Meoli: Making sense of a massive Orioles deadline sell-off
Center fielder Cedric Mullins and first baseman Ryan O'Hearn cross paths Wednesday during the eighth inning of their final game with the Orioles.
Letter: ICE should target criminals, not terrorize our communities
ICE should focus enforcement on violent criminals, and not Maryland’s hard-working families, friends and neighbors, says U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.
Kyle Goon: Getting a WNBA expansion team to Baltimore is a big dream. But here’s what it would take.
Let’s imagine a world where our resources and alignment match our hunger for WNBA basketball in Baltimore City.
FILE - Chicago Sky's Angel Reese looks to pass during the team's WNBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Sparks on Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Jon Meoli: The Orioles’ pre-deadline homestand, with hot bats and bullpen turmoil, is what this stretch run will look like
Jordan Westburg, right, and Gunnar Henderson had a strong homestand as the Orioles offense showed a return to form.
Letter: It’s time for a reset for the Baltimore County inspector general’s office
Baltimore County needs a reset for the inspector general's office, says N. Scott Phillips, a member of the House of Delegates, and Khadija Walker is uniquely qualified for the job.
Khadija Walker.
Would-be saviors of Pimlico’s lost barns aren’t ready to call it quits
It’s never easy being Don Quixote, the mad Spanish knight who tilted at windmills aboard his noble nag, Rocinante.
Demolition crews got started Thursday at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore, starting with the barns along Winner Avenue. Work was expected to be finished by the end of July.
I’ve been widowed for 10 years. This is what his death taught me about life.
Grief, faith, time and therapy have taught me it’s OK to be OK, or even really good, just as much as it was OK not to be OK in the thick of mourning my late husband.
Columnist Leslie Streeter with her late husband Scott Zervitz on their wedding day in 2010 in Palm Beach, Fla.
Kyle Goon: With an uncertain Orioles future, Cedric Mullins feels fans’ love in throwback performance
Cedric Mullins made franchise history, becoming the third Oriole to hit 100 career home runs and steal 100 career bases. Even as he nears the possible end of his time with the Orioles, fans’ appreciation of him is peaking.
Cedric Mullins hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning Saturday night to become just the third player to reach 100 home runs and steal 100 bases for the Orioles.
Inspectors general save taxpayers millions. Maryland needs more of them.
OIG is an acronym that should cheer advocates of good government. But only a handful of the biggest Maryland counties and cities have them -- inspectors general.
Isabel Cummings poses for a portrait with her arms crossed in her office. Clockwise, the original courtroom sketch of the Jacqueline McLean case she worked on, a Baltimore Sun clipping reading "Wrath of Isabel," a blue and orange "Baltimore" skateboard and a black and white "Charm City" skateboard hang behind her.
Letter: Don’t speed on JFX, but remember the speedy clipper ships
You probably should watch out for the speed cameras on the JFX, but remember that the waters of the Jones Falls helped create Baltimore’s famed — and fast — clippers ships, says letter writer Stan Heuisler.
Weekend commuters zip past on of Baltimore City's speed camera on the Jones Falls Expressway on Sunday, October 1
Jon Meoli: The Orioles’ top 2024 draft picks are struggling. Here’s how each can turn it around.
Aberdeen hitting coach Zach Cole broke down how these well-regarded players have fared and what success in the second half would look like for each.
Outfielder Vance Honeycutt, shown on base for the Aberdeen IronBirds, was one of the Orioles’ two first-round draft pick last season.
She unburied the past. Now she’s helping rebuild it.
Janice Hayes-Williams is searching for the descendants of urban slavery in America, rebuilding the legacy of the James Brice House in a collaboration with Historic Annapolis.
Janice Hayes-Williams, a historian and genealogist, is working with Historic Annapolis to make the James Brice House a center for the interpretation of urban slavery in America.
Jon Meoli: 3 ways the Orioles can win the MLB trade deadline
This is a rare opportunity for a team in its competitive position, and hitting on this could further the Orioles’ long-stated goal of building a perennial contender that’s immune to off years like this.
Orioles general manager Mike Elias discusses trading right-handed pitcher Bryan Baker to the Tampa Bay on July 10.
Why one mass overdose won’t be the last — and what we’re missing that got us here
Baltimore has been roiled by the news of mass overdoses. One recovery worker and recovered addict says the truth is found behind the headlines.
An overdose victim is treated in the triage area near Penn North metro station after Baltimore Police and Baltimore City Fire ⁩respond to a call for multiple people experiencing overdose symptoms at the intersection of Pennsylvania & North avenues in West Baltimore on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
Kyle Goon: John Harbaugh’s ‘amazing’ visit to Trump White House goes against his own principles
The Harbaugh Coaching Academy focuses on caring for those you lead. Why visit the most divisive president in modern history, then?
Ravens coach John Harbaugh takes questions from reporters following the team’s training camp session Wednesday in Owings Mills.
Kyle Goon: The Ravens are a Super Bowl contender. Why does that make fans so nervous?
We get it. The real questions can only be answered in January. But try to live in the moment anyway.
Bills fans cheer after Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews (89) missed the two-point conversion attempt in the 4th quarter. The Buffalo Bills defeated the Ravens 27 - 25  in the AFC divisional round at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, on Sunday January 19, 2025.
Opinion: From ‘useless’ to unstoppable: Arts education empowers Baltimore students
Young people discover confidence, purpose and opportunity through creative programs that government funding rarely prioritizes.
Buy a $3.45M Chesapeake Bay paradise, get a boatload of politics for free
There’s only one buyer for Discovery Village that makes any sense — Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman. Yeah, that guy.
Discovery Village in Shady Side is on the market after Anne Arundel County withdrew from its lease.
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