Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Could ‘small’ be the next big thing?

We’ve seen it with cars – with high gas prices, cars are getting smaller and more efficient. It looked like houses were following the same trend – the median size of a new U.S. home in 2010 was 21-hundred sq feet, about 10 percent smaller than three years earlier. But last year, new homes got bigger again.

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. 

This conversation originally aired on December 19, 2011.

The poet Ogden Nash moved to Baltimore as a young man, bringing with him a love of baseball that lasted his whole life. He adopted Baltimore, and the Orioles, with a passion reflected in an ode to baseball greats he published in 1949.

Allison Leotta is an author who’s channeling what she learned as a federal prosecutor of sex crimes … into sexy thrillers. She was a federal prosecutor in Washington for a dozen years. Her debut novel two years ago had a fast-moving plot that centered on a domestic-violence case.

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