William Hughes

From the sensational murders of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy to the bloody lethal 9/11 attack, you can eventually count on an entity known as “Deep State” to get a mention as a pos […]

The Mayor’s Annual Christmas Parade, a gala event, was launched, in Hampden, (Hon), Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday afternoon (12.03.17). The weather was sunny and a little on the cold side, but no strong winds to […]

Baltimore City Mayor, Catherine Pugh, is a very competent, conscientious and likable politician. As of November 15, 2017, however, she is at a crossroads in her brief tenure in office.

We know she panicked […]

Larry Hogan, a Republican, was elected in 2014 as governor of Maryland. It was no easy task, as Republicans are a minority in the state. Bob Ehrlich, another Republican, had also served one term from 2003-2007. […]

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April breeze unfurled. Here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world.”

– “The Concord Hymn,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson […]

By any definition, the 2016 national campaign for the office of the President of the United States is the absolute pits. Nothing in past memory comes close to it. The personal mud-slinging by the major […]

“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.” — Will RogersI grew up during World War II in the neighborhood of Locust Point. It’s a peninsula that juts out into Bal […]

“I hope [my headstone] doesn’t end up reading, ‘The Duke of Dirt!’” — John WatersIt was awfully humid, with the heat index hovering around 95 degrees. I waited my turn standing outside the Atomic Boo […]

“Our meat is aged, our fish is fresh and our butchers are both.” [1]On May 23, 2010, I attended a book reading at the Crystal Moll Gallery in South Baltimore. Rafael Alvarez, a local who worked for twent […]

“You are a little harder when you come out of a steel mill than when you went in.” — Austin McLelland [1]In “Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town,” Deborah Rudacille vividly recreates t […]

“Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.” — GoetheOne of Algeria’s greatest sons, the late Albert Camus, is back where he rightfully belongs- […]

“A lasting, high and happy memory.” — Ben Johnson“Hey, get ready, I’m coming in,” I shouted.“You sure are,” a voice behind me snapped loudly, as he grabbed me forcibly by the back of my white-colored […]

When I read Kari Lydersen’s first-rate “Revolt on Goose Island,” recently, it took me back to a talk, I’d attended, on May 1, 2008, at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD. One of the speaker […]

Michael Kimball’s third book, “Dear Everybody,” will kick you hard in the ass! It’s about a disturbed weatherman, Jonathon Bender, age 32, who kills himself. I think the jolts in it come from the fact th […]

If you’re going to write your first novel, and it’s a political spoof, then you might as well as set it in the White House. Well, Ted Venetoulis does exactly that in his “Hail to the Cheat,” which is no […]

Kathy Flann’s eleven short stories all have a “Smoky Ordinary,” [1] connection, thus the title of her book. Smoky Ordinary is a rural community, located in Brunswick County, VA, which is about an hour dri […]

Baltimore, MD — Stephen Janis is an awarding-winning investigative reporter. The urban crime scene is his beat. His engrossing, surreal novel, “This Dream Called Death,” is his second book. [1]The fast- […]

“Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” — Old German ProverbOn Jan. 6, 2010, Baltimore City’s Mayor Sheila Dixon, age 56, copped a controversial plea deal with the State Prosecutor on the criminal […]