Buffett says women key to nation’s prosperity
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire Warren Buffett is optimistic about America’s economic future because the nation has begun to unleash the potential of women. Buffett’s views on the role of women appeared...
View ArticleEditorial: Maryland companies need to lean in more
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> In a forward-thinking state like Maryland, it’s disappointing that companies are behind the curve when it comes to making sure that their leadership is diverse....
View ArticleEditorial: Arts districts must be protected
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> It’s encouraging to see that Baltimore’s arts districts — Highlandtown, Station North and Bromo Tower — are not only serving as a creative kitchen of sorts for...
View ArticleEditorial: A snare of its own making
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Call it the fable of the client who wouldn’t abide sound counsel. Just about every lawyer can tell some version of it: The client comes in asking for advice but...
View ArticleEditorial: Lessons from the Rocky Gap boondoggle
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Perhaps the best that can be said about the casino at Rocky Gap is that it has already produced one winner: the state itself, which was able to rid itself of the...
View ArticleEditorial: Troubled waters ahead for Maryland’s hospitals
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Can it be that the once seemingly impervious bubble of the health care industry and its associated sectors is close to popping? Or, worse, has it already?...
View ArticleEditorial: Supreme Court decision erodes constitutional rights
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> In the latest round of the ever-evolving tug-of-war between safety and freedom, safety has triumphed. &via=&related=DolcePixel">
View ArticleEditorial: A failure to communicate
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> The Baltimore City Council’s recent effort to hire legislative counsel independent of the city solicitor’s office speaks volumes about the vast gulf between the...
View ArticleEditorial: A lost generation of scientists
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Those who think federal sequestration is little more than political theater might do well to take a closer look at the real and potentially long-lasting impacts...
View ArticleEditorial: Gerrymandering city’s enterprise zones
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Baltimore City Council member Carl Stokes has a legitimate grievance regarding the gerrymandered enterprise zone that is enabling the developers of the swank...
View ArticleEditorial: A new era for Maryland’s Judiciary
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> The governor’s decision to put Judge Mary Ellen Barbera in charge of the Court of Appeals is one for the history books, as she will be the first woman to head the...
View ArticleEditorial: Ice cream store fits with agricultural preservation
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> The case of fourth-generation dairy farmer and ice cream purveyor Bobby Prigel offers an opportunity to more deeply examine what may be an increasingly common...
View ArticleEditorial: A green light for Perez
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> With members of the U.S. Senate reaching a compromise to allow confirmation votes for presidential appointees, thereby avoiding the much-discussed nuclear option...
View ArticleEditorial: Mental health status is not static
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Maryland’s highest court demonstrated a highly disconcerting lack of understanding of mental health issues this week when it barred the state from re-evaluating...
View ArticleEditorial: Closed meetings violate public trust
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Disappointingly, and unsurprisingly, the Baltimore mayor’s office and officials with the city’s Board of Finance offered little more than platitudes after a...
View ArticleEditorial: Red Line is falling out of favor
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> With the awarding this week of $400 million for Purple Line construction, state leaders have made a clear statement about where their transportation priorities...
View ArticleEditorial: Getting to heart of flawed criminal justice system
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> A federal judge’s ruling last week that upheld the ubiquitous and evenhanded practice of criminal background checks before employment signals that some measure of...
View ArticleEditorial: Too much infighting over city’s development projects
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> All the recent sniping over whether to grant taxpayer-financed infrastructure subsidies to help lure Exelon to a proposed development at Harbor Point has obscured...
View ArticleEditorial: Forensic analysis not exempt from 6th Amendment
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> The outrage from Stephen B. Mercer of the state public defender’s office over the interpretation of a Supreme Court decision that led to convictions being upheld...
View ArticleEditorial: At long last, justice on time
&via=&related=DolcePixel"> Kudos to Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, who promised this week that the top court will issue its decisions “at the very latest” by the...
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