Is Maryland Paying a Disproportionate Cost for Climate Change?
Podcast Summary: Governor O'Malley has laid out his plan for combating climate change. But Maryland is just one state—with a lot of coastline, and a lot of neighbors. How much impact can one state...
View ArticleFlicks for August
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.August 2,...
View ArticleCrossing Lines in Northwest Baltimore
Podcast Summary: In 2010, in Northwest Baltimore, an African-American teenager was assaulted by an Orthodox member of a neighborhood watch group called Shomrim. Three years later, Tom Hall talks with...
View Article8-2-13: Understanding neighborhood lines, and movies for August
Podcast Summary: The lines between us--on the streets: bollards, bus stops, and other barriers. Plus, flicks to pick this August. Some of the inequities we’ve talked about in our series The Lines...
View ArticleInforming Prisoners About Their Right to Vote
Podcast Summary: Approximately 1500 Marylanders with misdemeanor convictions have been mistakenly taken off voting rolls. The mistake wasn't brought to light until a complaint from former Anne Arundel...
View Article8-6-13: B'more May Close Pools, Washington County Considers a Charter, and...
Podcast Summary: Baltimore City is considering closing some of its pools, plus could Washington County switch to a charter form of government? The Department of Recreation and Parks is developing new...
View ArticleCould Washington County Pen a New Charter?
Podcast Summary: In the past decade, Cecil and Frederick County residents voted to switch to a charter form of government. We’ll talk to Delegate LeRoy Myers, who’s leading a push to bring charter...
View ArticleMr. Pipkin Goes to Dallas
Podcast Summary: Republican E.J. Pipkin has served in the Maryland State Senate since 2003 as minority leader since 2011. Two days ago he announced his retirement--and an impending move to Texas. We...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Podcast Summary: For the first time in six decades, the family of Henrietta Lacks will be consulted on how their matriarch's genetic material is used in research--the famous ‘HeLa cells’ that have...
View ArticleHow Changes to Mandatory Minimums Will Affect Marylanders
Podcast Summary: US Attorney General Eric Holder says he’ll direct federal prosecutors not to charge low-level, non-violent drug offenders with crimes that carry mandatory minimum sentences. We’ll ask...
View ArticleHow to Read the Radio
Podcast Summary: Researchers at Towson are working to provide real-time captioning…for radio. We talk with the psychologist leading the charge.August 13, 2013You might want to listen to this...
View ArticleWhen a School Decides to Farm
Podcast Summary: Tom Hall and Anne Raver check on the tomato crop at Great Kids Farm in Catonsville, which is owned and operated by the Baltimore City School System.August 14, 2013read more
View Article8-14-13: B'more police consultant Bill Bratton, a tour of the new design...
Podcast Summary: Ideas for Baltimore city’s police from the former chief of three big-city police forces. Plus, a redesigned building for the Baltimore Design School. Bill Bratton has led police...
View ArticleFlags of Maryland
Podcast Summary: As part of our series "Flags of Maryland," we hear from Dickeyville resident Charleye Dyer, who flies a Missing in Action flag in honor of her dad, who went missing before she was...
View ArticleTaylor Branch Remembers the March
Podcast Summary: Historian Taylor Branch reflects on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. He analyzes Reverend Martin Luther King’s historic speech, including four words that King never...
View ArticleRemembering Gwynn Oak
Podcast Summary: The same day that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, an African American girl became the first black child to ride on the merry-go-round at Gwynn...
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