Maryland Morning

A recently released state audit revealed hundreds of thousands of dollars in overpayments to employees and millions of dollars in uncollected debt. This comes at a time when City Schools is looking for billions of dollars from the state to renovate dilapidated schools.

On October 17, WYPR's Tom Hall interviewed Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as part of the city's annual cultural town hall meeting. One of the main topics was how to find sources of funding when the economy is in bad shape. Mayor Rawlings-Blake said the city does what it can--but that other institutions are imporant to maintaining these projects. 

In this segment, Sheilah talks with Dr. Maureen Black, professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Growth and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine about the "Witnesses to Hunger" exhibit and the pictured families' experiences dealing with hunger and poverty.

This week on "The Lines Between Us,” we'll look at research that shows how the foreclosure crisis broke down along race and class lines, and what it means for children. We’ll hear what Northeast Baltimore’s Belair-Edison community is doing to stem the tide, and we'll meet a woman there who's trying to cope with being on the brink of foreclosure.

Then – Tom Hall talks with Joanne Martin, president of Great Blacks in Wax, about why she and her husband Elmer founded the museum--and why they decided to locate it on North Avenue.

This week, we'll look at research that shows how the foreclosure crisis broke down along race and class lines, and we’ll hear what Northeast Baltimore’s Belair-Edison community is doing to stem the tide.

A new kind of library is slowly spreading across America. It’s about the size of a bird-house, holds about 50 books, and you can put it in your front yard.

Web Extra: Lesley Noll on the response to the little free library prototype

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is sitting down to a Board of Estimates meeting this morning with Comptroller Joan Pratt. It’s the first one since Comptroller Pratt filed a lawsuit against the mayor’s administration to stop her from moving forward with her plan to replace city phones.

About two hundred years ago, the Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote a few lines about his young, estranged daughter, Ada Lovelace:

Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! 

Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? 

When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smil'd,