Maryland Morning

City Councilman Bill Henry is sponsoring four charter amendments that would shift the balance of power in Baltimore.  We ask him what they would do.

Then, Regina McCarthy takes us through the history of winemaking in Maryland, all the way back to the catawba vines planted by Thomas Jefferson's friend John Adlum in the early 19th century.

And on the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks, Tom Hall takes a tour of the Maryland 9/11 memorial at Baltimore's World Trade Center in the Inner Harbor.

An agreement signed last month by the United Steelworkers Union has left 1600 Sparrows Point workers without health benefits or an active pension plan.  We talk with Baltimore Brew reporter Mark Reutter about how it happened so quickly--and what's next for the plant.

Then – On Sunday, the Found Footage Festival brings the best of the worst of VHS to the Creative Alliance. Nathan Sterner talks to festival co-founder Nick Prueher about what kind of bizarre and inadvertently hilarious footage lurks in the nation's thrift stores.

Baltimore City has what’s known as a “strong mayor” form of government, in which the executive branch has powers that far outweigh those of the council.  Now, one of the councilmembers is sponsoring a package of four charter amendments that would shift that balance of power. 

69 Maryland residents died as a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The 9/11 Memorial of Maryland, which is located at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, was dedicated in 2011 to honor those victims.

At some point in the next several weeks, the sale of Sparrows Point steel mill from RG Steel to a Chicago-based liquidator Hilco Industrial is expected to become final.  The mill was sold at a bankruptcy auction for RG Steel last month.

With the trail of summer blockbusters coming to its close, Maryland Morning's movie experts Jed Dietz and Mike Sragow sit down to sort  through the upcoming rush of fall flicks. And they've already found several standouts.

Everyman Theatre's production of "Time Stands Still" is up through October 7. Our resident theatre critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews a performance, which she calls "solid, sensitive, and involving."

"We're actually in the midst of a golden age, a sort-of-renaissance when it comes to the local arts scene" -John Lewis. 

150 years ago, in early Sept 1862, the United States was in peril. Union forces had won a string of victories in the spring, but after a new general, Robert E. Lee, took command of southern troops in June, the tide seemed to have turned.  By late summer, it suddenly seemed possible the Confederacy could win the war.