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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...

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Flicks 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,...

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Crossing 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...

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8-2-13: 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...

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Informing 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...

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8-6-13: 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...

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Could 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...

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Mr. 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...

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The 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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When 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

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8-14-13: 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...

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Flags 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...

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Taylor 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...

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Remembering 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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