Proposed city ordinance will reduce the number of venues for live entertainment, and has unpredictable consequences.

Quoting from the Baltimore Examiner: Baltimore tax lien sale could lead to foreclosures Advocates say a plan by Baltimore officials to sell liens for back taxes and overdue utility bills to private investors could lead to more home foreclosures.

If we are lucky, the beat-down of art teacher Jolita Berry will bring people to their senses, and spur a demand that politicians do something other than frown meaningfully when someone is hurt.

Or perhaps the more appropriate question is why do people who become cops end up morphing into belligerents?

Will the Fashion Police take over where the "real" police fail to perform?

Only in Baltimore can a person fight off an robbery attempt, and find himself possibly facing criminal charges.

Baltimore 1993 versus Baltimore 2007. How little progress we've made.

Jeff Beauchamp owes Baltimoreans an explanation about the way the management of WBAL has "disappeared" Chip Franklin and Rob Douglas.

The American spirit still lives. I had a nice personal reaffirmation recently.

A used-book seller torches excess inventory as a protest, and to gain space.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm reveals much about himself, none of it positive.

Six percent decline in Sunday circulation needs to be put in context.

Like a bad check, I just keep bouncing back.

...but neglected on the late newscast

Maryland Representative Steny Hoyer has been quite vocal in opposing the common-sense idea of asking people for identification before allowing them to vote. Luckily, other states have had better luck.

God bless and keep Allan Roberts.

I wonder if he'll try to pin this on Joe Steffen.

Sun reporter gets robbed, takes the opportunity to feel superior to her assailant's family.

The answer is simple, but nobody wants to admit it

Dumbest Examiner editorial to date.

Of all the lame-assed excuses for poor performance offered by Mayor O'Malley's city government, this one may just take first prize.

Apparently this donnybrook happened back in May and the local media buried the story. Another example of O'Malley's so-called accomplishments: a police department that can't even contain a young hop-head without problems.

Baltimore City schools are in a shambles, according to state-published data, but O'Malley, after five years as mayor, claims he has an education plan that will improve schools over the entire state? What's he been doing at City Hall, then?

There's a lot to be angry about here.

Another day of business as usual in the third-world toilet that used to be known as Baltimore.