Editorial

Baltimore homeowners can lose their property for as little as $250 in unpaid taxes, a threshold far lower than in other cities, according to a new Abell Foundation report. But amazingly, Baltimore City claims this is a benevolent policy that benefits homeowners by forcing them to address...

Sun endorsement: The Republican candidate for Anne Arundel executive is a sharp, clear-eyed conservative with a vision for the county's future.

Sun endorsement: The race presented a difficult choice, but we believe the lieutenant governor would be better able to enact the changes needed to maintain Md.'s prosperity

It's a miracle that nobody was killed May 28 of last year when a Mack truck hauling debris to a local recycling center pulled into the path of a moving CSX train in Rosedale shortly before 2 p.m. The resulting collision caused 15 cars in the 45-car train to derail, including three...

Questions about the end of life have faced human beings for as long as we have walked the earth. When will it come? Is there life after death?

The Carroll County public schools are at a crossroads. Teachers are leaving in record numbers to earn substantially higher salaries in neighboring counties. The problems facing our school system fall directly on the doorstep of our current elected officials at both the county and state levels.

A hundred years ago, the Parkway Theater at the corner of North Charles Street and North Avenue was a much admired movie palace and gathering spot for Baltimore's glittering upper crust. But the theater's fortunes declined with those of the surrounding neighborhood over the decades...

Based on what Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan has said about gun control, it's hard to see what the National Rifle Association would find appealing about him. He has said that although he opposed the strict new gun control legislation Gov. Martin O'Malley championed two...

This summer Maryland closed an Anne Arundel County group home for severely disabled foster children operated by Lifeline Inc. after a 10-year-old boy died there and The Sun reported long-standing financial and other problems at the company. Most of the children were transferred to Second...

If there was evidence that voter fraud was prevalent — or even a serious possibility — then perhaps the Supreme Court's ruling early Saturday allowing Texas to impose one of the strictest voter photo identification laws in the country would make sense. Instead what the...

The Centers for Disease Control is urging people not to panic over the pair of nurses who tested positive for Ebola at the hospital in Dallas where an infected man was treated last month. Yet polls show the public isn't buying it — a recent survey found nearly 80 percent of...

Fall is a big time of year for agricultural tourism, from hay rides to apple picking, pumpkin carving and corn mazes. Increasingly, farmers are exploring ways to supplement their income and assure their financial viability, which is particularly important in a state like Maryland where...

In a recent op-ed in the Annapolis Capital, Anne Arundel County Council candidate Michael Peroutka wrote that "you can vote for me with the confidence that I mean what I say." Very well, then. What does he say?

It was somewhere around the time when J.J. Hardy came up to bat with two outs in the top of the 9th inning in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series trailing Kansas City 2-1 while also behind in the best-of-seven series, 3-0, when it occurred to us that the Orioles might actually...

Anyone who is completely dispirited by Maryland's governor's race (and by this point, who isn't?) was in for a pleasant surprise today with the campaign's sole debate between the nominees for lieutenant governor, Republican Boyd Rutherford and Democrat Ken Ulman. The...

For more than three decades, the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum has been one of the underappreciated cultural gems of Baltimore. Located in an unprepossessing building on East North Avenue, the institution that calls itself "the museum with a message" attracts some 150,000...

The transfer of about 1,000 jobs from Bechtel Corporation's Power Business Unit in Frederick to the government contractor's existing facilities in Northern Virginia is an economic loss that hurts worse than most. These are high-paying jobs — many of them engineers who design and...

For those who despaired that Baltimore's chronically dysfunctional and highly political liquor board was owned lock, stock and beer barrel by the industry and that reversing the damage the board's lax approach to enforcement has done to neighborhoods was a pipe dream, we give you...

Despite all the talk about some of the oddities of this year's election — from the unexpectedly competitive race in South Dakota to the tough fight facing Republican Pat Roberts of Kansas — the political fundamentals still point to a GOP takeover of the Senate. Polls show...

Federal Centers for Disease Control Director Thomas R. Frieden has been saying for weeks that Americans have little to fear from the deadly Ebola epidemic that has killed some 4,000 people in West Africa. But with news over the weekend that a nurse at the hospital in Texas where the first...