“Could I have done this somewhere else?” Mills asked. “I’m a blue-collar, grassroots child of Baltimore, with a [vertical] crease in my forehead that I got from my mother, who grew up in Locust Point, that I wear as a badge of honor. Sure, my ‘Bawlamorese’ butchered the language along the way and, sometimes, I was too energetic on the air. But I was accepted here because I’m from here, and I’ll go to my grave thinking that.”