Maryland Morning

May 8, 2013

May 6, 2013

Astronomers at Johns Hopkins have discovered a supernova that exploded 10 billion years ago--the oldest ever spotted.  Named after President Woodrow Wilson, the supernova could give us insights into how the early universe functioned. We talk with Nobel laureate Adam Riess, the physicist who's leading the team.

1963 was a pivitol year in the civil rights movement--and in American history, generally. Activist Doc Cheatham is sharing a presentation on the year with different groups in Baltimore. Today, he shares his knowledge with us.

May 7, 2013

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andres Alonso is retiring at the end of June. We ask WYPR education reporter Gwendolyn Glenn what his six-year tenure means for the city’s kids.

Catoctin Furnace in Western Maryland fashioned iron into bombshells to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. It closed in 1903 with iron ore to spare. Elizabeth Anderson Comer, editor of a new book on the furnace, tells us why.

May 1, 2013

Maryland's largest health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has proposed a 25 percent hike in premiums for individual plans. CareFirst says the Affordable Care Act is driving the proposed increase. We talk with CEO Chet Burrell.

Prince George's County police officer Adrian Morris was killed in the line of duty last August. He will be one of seven honored Friday at this year's Fallen Heroes Day at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. We talk with one of his friends and fellow officers.

April 30, 2013

May 07, 2013

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andres Alonso announced yesterday he would leave his position at the end of June. He arrived in Baltimore six years ago from New York City, a reform-minded administrator taking over a troubled school system.

May 7, 2013

About a dozen miles north of Frederick, before you get to Thurmont, you’ll see some plain stone and log homes. They look old. They are old. They're part of what’s left of the village that used to surround an active iron furnace, the Catoctin Furnace.  

Web Extra: On the search for the ancestors of a forgotten cemetary

Web Extra: On preserving Catoctin village

May 8, 2013

'The Cycle' continues

The fictitious Chicago neighborhood of Clybourne Park has inspired great works of fiction with a timeline that stretches from 1959 to the present.

Kwame Kwei-Armah discusses his previous plays and how they relate to "Beneatha's Place."

Kwei-Armah elaborates on the 'State of the Nation' play, ownership, and political rhetoric

Each play in "The Raisin Cycle" is in conversation with the other, and each stands alone

May 7, 2013

Web Extra: Catholicism in the Catonsville 9

Web Extra: Shawn Peters talks about Mary Moylan

Web Extra: Where the surviving members are now

On The Lines Between Us, we look in the psychological effects of "administrative segregation" and "disciplinary segregation" on Maryland prisoners and how they compare to solitary confinement.

Then, Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival and Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post tell us what movies to look out for at this year's Maryland Film Festival.