Baltimore Mayoral Elections

The results are in! A day after Baltimore’s primary, does the city government look any different? We talk about the results with a Johns Hopkins professor who studies urban politics — and a reporter who’s been following the races.

Sheilah asks the interim state superintendent of schools about the Maryland State Department of Education’s priorities for the new school year.

Dinner in a jiffy doesn’t have to involve Jif. Our resident foodie Sascha Wolhander gives Tom Hall suggestions for quick meals.

Treats for aesthetes!

The Federal Transit Administration has given the go-ahead for Baltimore’s proposed Red Line addition to the light rail system to begin the preliminary engineering phase. What effect could Baltimore’s next mayor have on when we’ll be able to get on board–literally?

What impact do those paintings around town have on the neighborhoods they inhabit?

Get me some rosin, stat! Tom Hall talks to a member of the World Doctors Orchestra, a musical body composed entirely of physicians that’s coming to the Strathmore this weekend.

Treats for aesthetes!

Sheilah gets some analysis of last night’s Baltimore City mayoral candidates’ forum from Baltimore Sun City Hall reporter Julie Scharper.

There’s been lots of talk this election season about putting criminals behind bars. But what happens when they get out? Jericho Reentry Program case manager Greg Carpenter tells Sheilah what ex-offenders need to succeed, and what makes people ready to pull a trigger in the first place.

Monthly movie review.

Baltimore mayoral candidates and community leaders talk about summer jobs for city youth. 

A new study from Johns Hopkins on perspective, social skills and spatial abilities.