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Prepaid Plans--Not for Cell Phones, But for College
Podcast Summary: You've heard of prepaid cell phone plans--but what about prepaid tuition plans? There are government savings plans that offer tax breaks. Joan Marshall, who leads the state program,...
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Maryland Morning Culture Calendar
Podcast Summary: Treats for aesthetes. Friday, May 31FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture presents Dance Your Panties On5th Dimension, H&H Building, Franklin St. Baltimore.7:00 p.m.Saturday, June 1Lea...
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6-3-13: How corrections officers are trained in Maryland, growing up in a...
Podcast Summary: What goes into training a corrections officer in Maryland. Plus, a funeral home gives one young woman a new outlook on life. When you heard this spring that 13 corrections officers...
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Cannes, Critics, and Can't-Miss Movies
Podcast Summary: The best and worst of summer cinema: we ask our movie peeps, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festilval, about June films to see.Photo credit:...
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Jonathan Alter, on Why Barack Obama Represents the Center
Podcast Summary: What does it mean to be a 21st century politician? Tom Hall asks author Jonathan Alter, who's written about political gridlock in the capital in a new book called The Center Holds:...
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How an End to Gene Patenting Impacts Patients--and Science
Podcast Summary: The Supreme Court ruled last week that human genes cannot be patented. One of the plaintiffs in that case is a geneticist who now works at Johns Hopkins. We talk about what the ruling...
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The Lines Between Us: When Your Debt to Society Becomes Actual Debt
Podcast Summary: When convicts pay their debt to society…should they accrue financial debt? We ask Baltimore's deputy public defender how much money it costs to be involved with the criminal justice...
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6-21-13: How Being in Jail Can Land You in Debt and Vice Versa
Podcast Summary: How being in prison can lead to being in debt. Plus, how personal debts can PUT you in jail–and how that might be changing. When convicts pay their debt to society…should they accrue...
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When You Stop Hearing the Alarms
Podcast Summary: Hospitals are not known for being quiet places: the talking, the bustling, the beeping. As technology has advanced, hospitals use more and more different types of alarms, and...
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Does Beer Taste Good, No Matter the Vessel?
Podcast Summary: The age-old question: beer in a can or bottle? We ask our beer buddy, author Rob Kasper about what's best: can, bottle, or keg--and if it actually affects the taste.July 3, 2013Audio...
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Films for Sultry Summer Days
Podcast Summary: The best and worst of summer cinema: we ask our movie peeps, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festilval, about June films to see.July 8,...
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Living with Pediatric HIV
Podcast Summary: There are an estimated 37,000 Marylanders living with HIV. A portion of them were born with the disease--they contracted it during birth. But that number is shrinking, and those born...
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7-08-13: Stories of Baltimoreans born with HIV, meet a minister to the...
July 8, 2013We hear from a Baltimore teenager who lives with pediatric HIV, and a nurse and social worker who are helping those born with it to transition to adulthood.When you think of the port of...
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How the Health Care Law is Affecting Maryland's Small(ish) Businesses
Podcast Summary: The new health care law requires that larger companies provide insurance to their workers. The Obama administration announced last week it's delaying the mandate by one year. That...
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Measuring Maryland's Economy--One Indicator at a Time
Podcast Summary: Maryland's unemployment rate has hovered just below 7 percent for the past year. And while wages are high compared to most of the country, they’re growing more slowly here than in most...
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How "Ashe" Became "So Be It" and then "Amen"
Podcast Summary: A new exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum shows the influence of the Bible on African American art. Tom Hall gets a tour from curator Leslie King Hammond. She says the Bible was...
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How Do You Try a Case That's Over 30 Years Old?
Podcast Summary: That's a question being considered by prosecutors and defense attorneys around the state. The Court of Appeals has declared that jury convictions prior to 1980 are unconstitutional due...
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Love in the Time of Indecision
Podcast Summary: What is it like to view the world through the eyes of the opposite sex? We ask Baltimore-born author Adelle Waldman. She takes on a man's perspective in her debut novel "The Love...
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How Those Behind Bars Can Stop Crime Outside
Podcast Summary: How can those behind bars stop crime in Maryland? An inmate at Jessup Correctional Institution says they have a lot of wisdom to share. We learn about a symposium he's holding there to...
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Meet Maryland's Newest Bug
Podcast Summary: Well, one of its newest bugs, anyway. The kudzu bug, which lives on the kudzu vine, has been spotted in five counties in Maryland for the first time. They sometimes jump to...
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