Maryland Morning

It’s a pterodactyl. Or, maybe an ink blot. No, it’s blood spatter… Opinions are mixed on what some of Maryland’s new Congressional districts look like. What is clear is that they are gerrymandered for political purposes.

Web Extra: Both major political parties are guilty of gerrymandering. Would one party ever stop without public pressure?

Web Extra: On court challenges to redistricting maps around the country

Superstorm Sandy slammed through Maryland last night, leaving more than 300,000 without power in the region. In Baltimore City, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has ordered all non-emergency personnel off the roads until noon.

As Sandy bears down on Maryland, we talk live with Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Dance in Ocean City. We also call out to Western Maryland to ask University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science president Don Boesch what this storm can do to the bay.

The Civil War shaped America in ways that continue to play out 150 years later. We talk with George Wunderlich, who runs the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, about how a set of orders issued in 1862 formed the basis of modern emergency medical treatment.

Baltimore Sun reporter Scott Dance is in an Ocean City hotel, watching the surf push past the dunes. He tells Tom Hall the latest as Hurricane Sandy moves west toward shore.

PLEASE NOTE: THE MONDAY OCTOBER 29 SCREENING OF "RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION" AT THE PRATT CENTRAL LIBRARY IS POSTPONED BECAUSE OF THE STORM. It's been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 4. More information at linesbetweenus.org.

Today in our ongoing series about inequality in the Baltimore region, we’ll meet Cherry Hill Community Coalition chairperson Michael Middleton; Baltimore native Rhonda Williams, author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality; and Berkeley law professor john a. powell, who was a key expert witness Thompson v. HUD, a case in which a federal judge ruled that the federal government must take a regional approach to Baltimore City's public housing.

In the last segment of the episode we hear from a participant in the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program.

Nicole's extended interview.mp3

DeLuca on housing needs.mp3