Sheilah Kast
Host, On The RecordSheilah Kast hosts On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. She came to WYPR from NPR 2006. In 2014 she and her team at Maryland Morning won a prestigious Dupont-Columbia University award for a year-long probe of inequality in the Baltimore region called “The Lines Between Us.” Sheilah learned how to report the news at The Washington Star, and learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV.
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Former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer -- the one and only “Lawyer Oyer” on Instagram and Tic Tok-- explains what’s up in the Trump world of law enforcement. -
Gov. Wes Moore on how the state will weather the Trump economy and what Maryland can do to support boys and young men. -
JHU Peabody Institute professor Amit Peled talks about why he's dedicated to keeping musicians and Maryland and why studying music creates better citizens. -
Author and historian Richard Bell's latest book talks about why the American Revolution was actually a global conflict. -
For more than a century, the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center -- called BARC -- has generated scientific discoveries that improved farmers’ productivity, food safety and human nutrition. The Federal government may be shutting it down. We hear about the impacts it has made on the lives of Americans. -
Betsy Fox Tolentino calls her new gig -- heading Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services -- her dream job. We ask how it's going. -
With other states, Maryland is suing the Trump administration over transportation, healthcare and other cuts. Republicans warn those lawsuits put federal funds for the Key Bridge at risk. We ask Attorney Gen. Anthony Brown. -
As a teen-ager, Cory McCray was on a path of guns and drug-dealing until he became an apprentice. We talk with the now State Senator about his book: 'The Apprenticeship that Saved My Life: Guidebook to Navigating the Earn-While-You-Learn Opportunity of a Lifetime.' -
On its argument that untraceable “ghost guns” amp up violence in the city, Baltimore just won a $62 million verdict against a company that makes them. What will be the impact? -
Baltimore author Laura Lippman talks about her latest novel.
