Carl Stokes

893 days ago - Advertising executive, author and columnist Lois Wyse, who coined the memorable catchphrase “With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good,” died Friday after a long struggle with stomach cancer, her family said. She was 80. During her lengthy career in advertising, Wyse raised the glass ceiling for other working women while counseling clients from American Express to Revlon to one-time Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes. She created the advertising slogan that propelled Smucker’s from a small Orrville, Ohio, jam and jelly business into an international brand. Her suggestion that a small chain of stores try a new name — Bed, Bath & Beyond — helped expand that business into a retail heavyweight.

932 days ago - Now we begin to test the power of political memory.  Keiffer Mitchell Jr. runs for mayor of Baltimore, and Michael Sarbanes for Baltimore City Council president, and each carries his family name as a symbol of pedigree and a sign of instant familiarity for voters in an election season that so far carries all the thrills of watching paint dry.

939 days ago - As we edge toward the Memorial Day weekend, police in Columbia find a 19-year-old dead of a gunshot wound. This is the third homicide in Howard County all year. In the city of Baltimore, three homicides is known as a pretty slow weekend.