Once thriving, the Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church has suffered from bad decisions by its overseer, the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the UMC, says a longtime trustee.

The locals who erected it – and the U.S. president who dedicated it – moved Baltimore in the wrong direction. [OP-ED]

If they go back to classrooms, a Baltimore teacher says, they’ll face not just broken boilers but a dangerous virus. And if they stay home, it will be the same old unrealistic expectations, multiplied. [OP-ED]