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Dan Rodricks

Dan Rodricks

We should base our choice upon their choices - September 30, 2008 - Sunday morning on Face The Nation, CBS' Bob Schieffer asked Barack Obama if he considered Sarah Palin qualified to be president of the United States. Obama danced around the subject and said, essentially - I didn't get the exact quote; I was making spaghetti sauce at the time and listening from the kitchen - that Schieffer's question was for the American people to answer.

Laura Vozzella

Laura Vozzella

Don't get your shorts in a bunch — visibly - September 28, 2008 - The ladies who lunch at Petit Louis in Roland Park know enough to keep their undies to themselves. Same goes for the Harbor East crowd forking over hundreds for dinner at Charleston and the oenophiles tasting wines at nearby Cinghiale.

Michael Dresser

Michael Dresser

Soliciting I-70 suggestions from amateur highway engineers: yep, that's you, motorist - September 22, 2008 - Getting There readers had plenty to say about my column on interchange design and motorcycle safety.

Jacques Kelly

Jacques Kelly

Oh, the tasks of homeownership - September 27, 2008 - This country's home mortgage crisis reminds me of the advice my neighbor, Grace Darin, once gave me. Darin, who gave Charles Village its name and fought for the neighborhood and homeownership, warned me against buying the house I now own.

Frederick N. Rasmussen

Frederick N. Rasmussen

Gold comes out of the cellar and into the lore - September 28, 2008 - My column several weeks ago chronicling the Depression-era story of two Baltimore youths, Theodore Jones, 16, and Henry Grob, 15, who turned up 3,558 gold coins in the dirt cellar of an Eden Street tenement, brought some interesting responses.

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