Maryland Morning

In this week's episode of “The Lines Between Us,” we’ll hear how inequality in the Baltimore region looks, from your point of view. Then, former President of Mexico Vicente Fox, on how America's War on Drugs plays out in Mexico. And continuing a Maryland Morning St. Patrick's Day tradition, guitarist Robin Bullock joins Tom Hall in studio.

Today on the Lines Between Us: CEO pay. It's grown manyfold in the last few decades. We'll look at efforts here in Maryland to bring more accountability and transparency to the way corporate boards put together executive compensation packages. Then we'll ask Professor Michael Faulkender of the University of Maryland Smith School of Business why CEO pay has outpaced worker pay, and what impact that gap has on overall inequality.

Some see Baltimore’s ‘blue light’ crime cameras as a marker, lighting up the lines around high-crime neighborhoods. For residents living among them, the cameras can be either a welcome crime deterrent--or an affront to their privacy and integrity.

On the Lines Between Us, we'll hear from the director of the Baltimore Police CitiWatch program, a city councilman who wants more cameras for his district, and artists who have addressed life among the cameras—and the police presence that attends them.

April 5, 2013

Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post joins Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival to discuss the legacy of film critic Roger Ebert. 

They also talk about the movies coming out this month, including The Sapphires, Ginger & Rosa, The Place Beyond the Pines, and Spring Breakers.

April 5, 2013

About 40 percent of African-American students in Maryland’s public four-year colleges attend one of the state’s four Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs – Morgan State University, Coppin State, Bowie State and the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore.

Ray Winbush full interview

Wednesday April 3 through Sunday April 7

Carroll County Arts Council’s “Peepshow”
Carroll Arts Center, Main Street
Westminster
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.


Thursday April 4 through Sunday April 7

April 3, 2013

Maryland is negotiating the biggest changes in its health system in four decades, even bigger than the changes facing other states, because Maryland is the only state with authority to set hospital charges that are paid by all insurers, and by uninsured patients.

Web Extra: Carmela Coyle on the growth rate of hospital costs

Web Extra: What would the change mean for Maryland hospital patients?

Web Extra: What is at stake financially with the change?

Web Extra: What would the Maryland Hospital Association have liked to see proposed that wasn't?

This morning the House of Delegates begins debating Governor O'Malley's gun control bill.  As it stands, the measure would ban assault-style weapons and strengthen the requirements to buy a handgun in Maryland.  We talk with two of the delegates involved in the debate:  Luiz Simmons, Democrat of central Montgomery County, and Mike Smigiel, Republican of the Upper Shore.

April 3, 2013

April 2, 2013