From and Fuller: What Does a Constitutional Crisis Look Like and the Fate of Federal Reserve Chair Powell
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 the growing evidence that the United States is facing a significant constitutional crisis as the Trump Administration continues to defy court orders. Al and Craig also discuss […]
A Spy/WHCP Check-in with Chief of Police Justin Todd
The Spy’s P. Ryan Anthony and WHCP radio’s Jim Brady recently had their quarterly conversation with Cambridge Police Chief Justin Todd. Topics included the new drone program CPD is putting into action. The aerial devices can be used for multiple purposes around the city, indoors and out, including tactics, communication, and rescue. In cooperation with […]
Shipping News: A Globe-sailing Skipper visits Grace Creek
His home is in a small town named Metz in eastern France. “It’s near the border with Germany and Austria.” I’m thinking that’s where his mother is too. When I made photographs of him and his boldly painted sailboat motoring out of Grace Creek, headed for Oxford, he asked me to send them to him […]
Looking at the Masters: The Limbourg brothers illustrate the story of Easter
The Limbourg brothers, Herman, Paul, and Jean, born between 1385 and 1388, were Dutch painters from Nijmegen, but they were active in Burgundy and other parts of France. King Philip the Bold of France employed Paul and Jean to paint manuscripts in February 1402. When Philip died in 1404, his brother Jean du France, Duke […]
Design with Jenn Martella: The (second) empire strikes back
As I was searching for this week’s feature, I had just finished watching Season Five of “The Parisian Agency” so France was on my mind and this house spoke to me. The Second Empire style became popular in France during the reign of Napoleon III, France’s “Second Empire”. Its origin was actually in the 17th […]
Saying Goodbye to Annie by Angela Rieck
This week my dog, Annie, an (almost) 19-year-old cockapoo passed away. My grief is immeasurable. At the end she had dementia, cataracts, and was deaf; but she loved to be by my side or watch Annie TV (watching the birds, squirrels, and bunnies running around the yard). Annie was not a normal dog, nor was […]
Youth Environmental Action Summit inspires local students
Last month, high school students from Kent, Caroline, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, and Dorchester counties gathered at Chesapeake College for ShoreRivers’ fourth annual Upper Shore Youth Environmental Action Summit. More than 130 students were in attendance from 10 different schools. This annual Summit aims to empower future leaders of the environmental movement to take action now. […]