Jayne Miller

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Downtown development: Swamped by COVID & crime, will it recover?

Jayne Miller

Baltimore's ambitious downtown redevelopment plans have lost some of their momentum. Guest host Jayne Miller and two Baltimore Banner reporters share their insights on what's gone wrong.

New four-story townhomes under construction in 2019 at the southeast corner of Guilford Avenue and E. Lanvale Street in Baltimore. The rate of homeownership in Maryland among Black people continues to lag behind that of Whites. According to a 2021 report on race and home buying in Maryland, only 52% of Black residents are homeowners, compared to the 78% of White residents who own their homes. In Baltimore City, Mayor Scott recently unveiled several initiatives to assist renters looking to buy their first homes. (Photo credit: Eli Pousson for Baltimore Heritage via Wikimedia Creative Commons)

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Homeownership in Maryland: Confronting the racial inequities

Jayne Miller

Guest host Jayne Miller examines the reasons why Blacks in Baltimore, across Maryland and across the US lag significantly behind Whites in the rate of homeownership — and what's being done to close the gap.

Waiting times in Maryland emergency rooms are among the longest in the nation,averaging 238 minutes per visit. Legislation establishing a task force to propose ways to reduce those wait times was adopted in the 2023 Maryland General Assembly. (photo credit: Tony Webster via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Healthcare challenges: ER waits, nurse shortages, long-term care

Jayne Miller

Guest host Jayne Miller explores a range of issues affecting Maryland's health care system, from overly long ER wait times to a long-term care industry suffering from its own aging infrastructure.

A 2018 aerial view of Baltimore and environs. The non-profit Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (BNIA), operating out of the University of Baltimore's Jacob France Institute, strengthens Baltimore communities by providing their leadership with meaningful, accurate, and open data at the neighborhood level. (photo credit: Pi.1415926535 via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)

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BNIA's data mission: Tracking city trends to build a better Baltimore

Jayne Miller

The director of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance joins guest host Jayne Miller to explain how - and why - her non-profit gathers data on the important changes underway in the Baltimore region.

Baltimore City is one of just two "stand-alone" cities in the United States, an urban jurisdiction governed independently from its surrounding suburban county neighborhoods. Though their economies are interwoven, Baltimore County and Baltimore City have functioned as separate political entities since the mid 1800s, when the Maryland legislature split them up. Is it time to reunite them? (map courtesy Google Maps)

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Greater Baltimore? Prospects for regional city-county government

Jayne Miller

Guest host Jayne Miller explores the pros and cons of enhanced regional governance between Baltimore City and County with local journalist Ron Cassie and Brookings Metro scholar Jennifer Vey.

Baltimore Light RailLink cars, like those shown here, would begin servicing multiple stations along a new north-south corridor from Port Covington to Lutherville-Timonium, as part of a complex -- and contentious -- transit development plan proposed last year by the Maryland Transit Administration.

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Transit Dreams: Red Line redux & a contentious transit-housing plan

Jayne Miller

Guest host Jayne Miller discusses Red Line revival plans with Maryland Del. Robbyn Lewis, and wades into the debate among community leaders over a proposed transit-oriented development project in Lutherville.

A January, 1937 photograph of federal workers in the Division of Classification and Cataloging at the National Archives, Washington, DC. (photo credit: The U.S. National Archives via Flickr Commons)

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The future of work: The new forces changing where and how we labor

Jayne Miller

Guest host Jayne Miller speaks with a lawmaker, a scholar and a union president about the fundamental changes underway in the nature of office and factory work, and in the workforce itself.