Just when we thought politics would take a backseat to the normalcy of the rest of our lives, here we go again. While some attendees cannot wait to hear him, there are more than a few who have forgotten why he is here.

It is not every year that such a powerful, controversial voice speaks to attendees of the NAACP annual freedom...

When news broke about the allegations that the Baltimore office of the community organization ACORN had encouraged mortgage fraud, state Del. Nic Kipke started doing some research online. He found that the Maryland attorney general still recommended ACORN as a mortgage foreclosure counselor.

Disturbed, Kipke, R-Pasadena, posted notes on Facebook and Twitter, where he has well over 1,000 follo...

Even though there is oft...

The brief event will take place at the Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Visitors Center next to the Gotts Court Garage, off of the first block of West Street, at 11 a.m. Friday.

The mayor will be highlighting ...

Furrow targeted Ileto because he looked to be either Asian or Latino and worked for the federal government, he later said. Ileto was Filipino-American. Amazingly, nobody was killed at the NVJCC, but camp counselor Mindy Finkelstein was ...

Several Severna Park residents who recently agreed to pay some men for auto bodywork services said the exterior of their cars ended up in worse shape after the work was done.

After nearby established mechanics urged the unsatisfied residents to report their incidents, some spoke with the Watchdog as well as local police.

Though it's not clear if every incident involved the same workers...

In the fields off to the right, a developer wants to build 77 homes on 22 acres. To the left, another 44 are proposed on 15 acres.

Lyman and her husband, Phil, like their neighbors, think the projects would irrevocably alter what Phil Lyman calls "a little corner of rural Maryland that's been preserved."

The Lymans own one of 14 h...

This time around, the politicians outdid themselves, and we got into more issues than the typical sign swiping and overheated rhetoric. First, we had Zina Pierre elected as the Democrat nominee, only to have her quickly replaced by Josh Cohen when her financial problems surfaced.

Just as that issue began to die down...

During yesterday's ceremony at Crownsville Veterans Cemetery, Presidents John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were quoted...

It was all quite simple, really - he could move in immediately and st...

Even though the weather didn't cooperate, the runners and volunteers did as they all showed up in full force to support the Shafran family.

All proceeds will go to the Rock for Youth Scholarship Program and Joe Shafran Memorial Nature Trail.

About 100 runners and a number of dogs came out in the pouring rain, warmed up with the...

My challenge to you is to prove them wrong.

You had many committed supporters, but still came in second in the primary. You narrowly won the general election despite having raised and spent a lot of money (...

We live in a world awash in such euphemisms, most of which we tune out. I have noticed them, but usually laughed them off until a jarring incident a couple of weeks ago.

I was covering a musical performance for inmates at...

As lawmakers sought to cut the bill's price tag, the Congressional Budget Office noted that making more people eligible for Medicaid is less costly than other ways of insuring lower-income Americans. What the CBO didn't say is the medical coverage they get will be more com...

According to that resolution, the week prior to Nov. 1 is set aside for activities that are to reflect the African experience. This year the City Council invited me to provide reflections on one of its own, the former slave and alderman Wiley H. Bates.

As I looked arou...

After about five days of seeing a dead deer in the road, Susan Millman, an Annapolis resident, decided to take matters into her own hands.

Not by dodging traffic with a shovel in hand, but by calling The Watchdog. She had already tried calling the county and city, she said, but it seemed like nothing was being done.

Millman believed the carcass had been lying in the somewhat nonexistent shoul...

He thought he had left that behind when he moved to the United States in January so his two daughters could attend good schools. Amador admires America and the fact that its institutions serve the people.

But after the experience he had with Anne Arundel County police two weeks ago, he's not so sure.

" 'I guess police are ...

The take away thought from that column: Transportation is and always has been a primary element of the urban environment.

However, this begs the question, what is government's role in facilitating urban mobility for its citizens? Th...