Getting Ready for Chesapeake Bay Week with MPT’s Sarah Sampson
[youtube id=”6Tv0l33t86U April 21st marks the beginning of Chesapeake Bay Week on Maryland Public Television (MPT). And it is safe to say, as MPT enters the 20th year of this remarkable program, the broadcast – now running more than 22 hours – provides better, more significant and more compelling content than ever. The Spy’s Craig Fuller […]
Move Over Horny Goat Weed, Here Comes Pollen
GRACE CREEK ALMANAC – So, this week’s hot news involves the unique, annual, and sublimely quiet spring storm sifting everywhere around us. No, not Stormy Daniels and the Trumpster. That situation’s neither sublime nor quiet. Rather, as you’ve probably guessed from the pictures, I’m writing about the pine pollen storm now in full fettle. The […]
From and Fuller: Speaker Johnson’s Foreign Aid Pickle and Trump Trapped in the Courtroom
[youtube id=”yhq-T4aEuMw Every Thursday, the Spy hosts a conversation with Al From and Craig Fuller on the most topical political news of the moment. This week, From and Fuller discuss Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s challenge of his chamber’s votes on aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border security as some conservative Freedom Caucus […]
Opinion: What I know and Don’t Know about Cambridge Waterfront Development Inc.
I have been getting a lot of questions lately about the Cambridge Waterfront Development Inc. (CWDI) project. Here is what I know. These are simply the facts for you so you can make up your own mind. The project covers almost 35 acres of the 6,734 acres of the City of Cambridge or one/half of […]
Could Some Auto-Immune Diseases Become a Thing of the Past?
The Invisible Kingdom is a book that chronicles Meghan O’Rourke’s struggle with an undiagnosed auto-immune disease. She describes the decade-long journey to get treatment for an autoimmune disorder that defied classification, and, therefore, treatment. She finally tried a radical solution that is not recommended by the medical establishment, but it worked for her. The one […]
Spy Review: They’re All Winners in this Contest by Steve Parks
A trio who got together barely nine months ago – late in the summer of 2023 – came away with the top prize of $10,000 in the 11th biennial Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition Saturday at Easton’s exquisite Ebenezer Theater. The Amara Trio, who met at Manhattan’s prestigious and hugely competitive Juilliard School, performed a […]
Opinion: Why did Medical-Aid-in-Dying Bill Stall? By Michael Strauss
The arrival of Sine Die in Annapolis demands that we look back at the session and ask a simple question: How can a bill supported by 70% of Marylanders fail to pass for the 10th year? Once again, the Maryland General Assembly failed to pass the End-of-Life Option Act, which has been discussed in Annapolis […]
Looking at the Masters: Daisies and Beavers
If you were born during the month of April, the daisy is your birth flower. Ancient Egyptians grew daisies for their medicinal value. Eating daisies was thought to relieve the pain of stomach ulcers and gout. King Henry VIII of England used them for that purpose. A Roman myth tells of Vertumnus, the god of […]
A Powerful Story of The Last Living Twin Holocaust Survivors at Satell Center May 5
Join us on Sunday, May 5th at 1:00 p.m., at Temple B’nai Israel–The Satell Center for Jewish Life on the Eastern Shore, as Marion Ein Lewin recounts the Hess family’s sacrificial love and will to survive the Holocaust. Possibly one of the last living twin survivors from the horrors of what her mother called “a […]