Mary Jo Salter

Maryland’s electric utilities are preparing to review their response to the derecho storm six weeks ago. A series of public hearings this week will let customers weigh in on BGE’s performance. We'll talk to a top BGE official, and to Public Service Commission chairman Douglas Nazarian.

Then – remember that Life Magazine cover photo from the end of World War II – a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square?

A new book identifies the woman as a resident of Frederick. We talk with her…and the sailor!

Tom Hall talks with Baltimore writer Mary Jo Salter about the poetry in the lyrics of Sondheim, the process of writing a poem, and the book she's currently working on, called Nothing by Design, which is due out in fall 2013.