Postcards: Onward... Baltimore.

There's a big story out of Charm City... and it's not the NFL playoffs. This could be a turning point for local journalism, and I gladly welcome it.

Dear Fellow Expat:

One of the things that I do miss out of my time in Maryland was access to the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

Some of the greatest sports journalists came out of that newspaper - Ken Rosenthal, Jon Steadman, Tim Kurkjian, and more enjoyed the great Baltimore Orioles teams of the 1980s and 1990s.

The great writer David Simon (creator of Homicide and The Wire) cut his teeth as a crime reporter - and developed what I believe to be the greatest TV show of all time (The Wire) - many apologies for my friends from New Jersey who argue The Sopranos.

I also grew up on the Business section of that paper as well, learning at an early age how to read the stock ticker of McCormick & Co. (MKC).

If you want to know how I ended up a journalism student at Northwestern University’s Medill School, it’s proudly rooted in my exposure to that newspaper. I distinctly remember being six years old at Warren Elementary School and creating a project for class called “The Baldwinmore Sun” - which my t…