Maryland Morning Podcast

Teenagers are sometimes held in solitary confinement for far too long .. while awaiting adult charges in the Baltimore City Detention Center. That's…

Governor Larry Hogan appointed a new health secretary last month, Van Mitchell. He is a former deputy health secretary, state delegate, and lobbyist. We…

Now that Gov. Hogan and the General Assembly have declared a compromise over how to regulate bay-polluting phosphorus found in chicken manure, we look at…

As the General Assembly considers how to fund today’s needs, how does it take tomorrow’s into account? We check on the health of Maryland’s state pension…

Riders may now be judging the Maryland Transit Administration by voting with their feet: the MTA reported this week that people took 4 million fewer trips…

Democrats and Republicans are setting the stage for a top-to-bottom overhaul of Maryland’s criminal justice system. We talk with Christoph Shank, the new…

Maryland delegates heard testimony last week about a slate of new bills aimed at reforming labor laws for the more than one-million hourly wage workers in…

The CEO of Baltimore City public schools, Gregory Thornton, plans to cut more than $70 million dollars in school spending, including some teachers’ jobs,…

A new way of disabling viruses is being developed that could hold promise for the fight against viral diseases like H.I.V. and Ebola. We talk with Johns…

For the first half of the twentieth century, conditions were grim at Maryland’s asylum for mentally ill African Americans near Crownsville in Anne Arundel…