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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We go On the Record with Democrat David Trone, the 6th District congressman running to replace Ben Cardin in the U.S. Senate. What is his problem with career politicians? What does he see as the top issue in this race?
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We'll go On the Record with Baltimore City's Chief Administrative Officer Faith Leach to talk about an $18M deal to acquire two downtown hotels for homeless housing.
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We’ll go On the Record with a lawyer pushing to connect eviction prevention funds to community schools. Families with young children are the group most likely to face eviction. Plus, Baltimore’s plan to turn two downtown hotels into housing for the homeless.
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Tami Jacobs shares a Stoop Story about starting over with her mother in America.
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We’ll go On the Record with writer Mako Yoshikawa. Her estranged father’s death - the day before her wedding - set Yoshikawa on a journey to untangle his mental illness, his stalled career as a physicist, and his cruelty. What did she find?
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We’ll go On the Record with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott as he runs for a second term. We ask how he’s addressing crime, property taxes, schools, pandemic relief money, the city’s dwindling population and the proposal to shrink the city council.
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We On the Record to get the background on why the General Assembly is rewriting parts of the juvenile-justice reforms enacted two years ago. Legislative leaders say children need more structure; Youth advocates contend the proposed changes would hurt young kids.
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We go On the Record with historian Edda Fields-Black. Her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" tells of a crucial Civil War raid. Under cover of darkness, Harriet Tubman and the Union Army, along with Black enlisted men, liberated 700 enslaved people along the Combee River of South Carolina.
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Here's a Stoop Story from Aisha Alfadhalah about the origin of the Meera Kitchen collective restaurant.
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We go On the Record with author Susan Muaddi Darraj. Her new novel traces intersecting lives of Palestinian-American families in Baltimore. It’s heart wrenching, and often funny.