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My daughter Jessie got married.

Much is made of the fact that the Baltimore region has no Fortune 500 companies — and only a few in the Forbes 1000 — but you hardly ever hear anyone brag about the number of international do-good organizations with headquarters here. Let me name a few:

The offseason negotiations between the Ravens and receiver Torrey Smith will be intriguing.

The Ravens could be on the brink of something special.

Here's a happy thought while everyone tries to look into the future and figure out how the Orioles roster will look when spring training begins in February:

Last year, I interviewed both Dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the virus that causes AIDS, and Dr. Alfred Sommer, whose work on vitamin A deficiency is credited with saving millions of lives around the world. Without prompting, both men expressed profound concern for biomedical research:...

It's the political season, which explains another column of "Things That Bug Me." Herewith my latest list for your consideration:

News that Apple would begin in January to pay for women employees to have their eggs frozen so they could delay motherhood — and that Facebook had already begun doing it — has jumpstarted the discussion of women and work/life balance.

When Ravens guard Marshal Yanda stepped to the podium Wednesday, he looked as uncomfortable as a construction worker wearing a tailored suit. The forum is usually reserved for the stars.

The hard sweat of building a better Baltimore takes place every weekday in hundreds of classrooms across the city, where teachers make the difference in the lives of children who grow up in the long shadow of poverty. We always come back to this. Every serious conversation — about...