Maryland Morning Podcast

Many Eastern cities, including Washington and New York, have extensive Bikeshare networks where you can pay a small fee, pick up a bicycle, ride it and…

As the number of casinos has risen in Maryland, so has the number of gamblers who can’t control their urge to play. How is the state addressing it? We’ll…

Analysis last spring found that more people from the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood in West Baltimore are incarcerated in Maryland state prisons … than…

Former Baltimore police Commissioner Anthony Batts broke the silence he’s kept in public since Mayor Rawlings-Blake fired him two months ago. We ask City…

Maryland is grappling with what to do about the surge in overdoses of prescription pain pills and heroin. Governor Hogan’s emergency task force has…

On Wednesday a judge is to start hearing lawyers’ arguments in the trial of six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. We ask two…

Late last month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch came to the MD Correctional Institute in Jessup to announce that the…

The charismatic equal-rights champion, Julian Bond, died ten days ago. He was 75. He served two decades in the Georgia legislature, and taught history for…

For the first day of school this year we’re revisiting a story on how Baltimore City public school students get to school. The yellow bus has long been an…

Ta-Nehisi Coates is getting lots of attention for his new memoir, written as a letter to his son. We take another listen to our talk with Coates and his…