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Loretta Reynolds grew up just off Erdman Avenue on the eastern edge of Baltimore as the youngest of five girls. Today she is Brigadier General Reynolds, and commands Parris Island, the famous training grounds for the U.S. Marine Corps. She'll tell us her story.

Then – The Olympics are over, but the Paralympics are just gearing up!  We'll talk with Baltimore’s own Jessica Long, who'll be going for the gold in swimming.

What does Baltimore need in its next police comissioner?

Radical abolitionist, successful businessman, influential Baltimorean, and almost totally forgotten.

The Baltimore Sun has called WYPR's Gilbert Sandler “our great rememberer," and here he shares his memories about life in Jewish Baltimore, from the Talmud Torah Softball League to the Jewish Drum and Bugle Corps.

You can live in Baltimore and care about history, and still have never heard the name Elisha Tyson.

Beginning with the Class of 2017—those students now entering eighth grade—all Maryland seniors will be required to pass an assessment test in government in order to graduate.  It’s part of a new law passed by the General Assembly this past spring. 

Sheilah talks to William E. Lori, who will be installed tomorrow as the 16th Archbishop of Baltimore.

Plus, Charles Heller tells Sheilah about “Prague: My Long Journey Home,” his memoir about hiding from the Nazis–and taking a potshot at one–as a young boy in World War II Czechoslovakia.

And, Tom talks with the author of a history of of medicine at Johns Hopkins.

Author Lauren Silberman talks with Nathan about her book, Wicked Baltimore.

The “public-private partnership” is getting the attention of public officials who see potential for private funding of public capital projects. We’ll talk to an expert on PPPs, Comptroller Peter Franchot, and Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, who’s chairing a commission on the oversight of these partnerships.

McDaniel College president and pop culture analyst Roger Casey on how we’ll be watching TV in the future…and what else we’ll be watching at the same time.

Treats for aesthetes!

A long search finds the spot where colonial Maryland shielded Native Americans. Plus, Taylor Branch on the colonialist slant of the NCAA. And how the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts … became MICA.