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'll go On the Record with an astrophysicist to talk about a new map of the cosmos.
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We’ll go On the Record with WYPR news director Matt Bush to catch up on significant decisions by the General Assembly -- and what else might clear in the next few weeks.
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We'll go On the Record with the director of community engagement at HopeWorks of Howard County, a nonprofit that serves victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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We’ll go On the Record with Hopkins experts who study red flag laws, which temporarily take firearms away from someone who’s a danger to others or themselves. How is this policy playing out in Maryland?
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How do eating disorders contribute to eating disorders among young people? And what advice does an expert on eating disorders for parents or caretakers?
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We go On the Record to talk about the Maryland Kids Code, a proposed bill seeking to push tech companies to redesign their products to better protect the privacy and wellbeing of younger users.
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Steve Parke shares a Stoop Story about becoming Prince’s art director.
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We’ll go On the Record with a constitutional scholar who argues the only way to fix our dysfunctional democracy is to bulk up the House of Representatives with multiple parties--beyond Democrat and Republican.
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We go On the Record with Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen, running citywide to be Council president. How would he boost hiring first responders, inspectors and other safety workers? How does holding youth accountable fit with trauma-informed care?
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We’ll go On the Record with Housing Secretary Jake Day to talk about the governor’s plan for Maryland’s housing shortage and eviction crisis. What would make it more likely that affordable homes are built? How to pull in federal money for housing? How to protect renters?