Maryland Morning

This conversation was originally broadcast on December 20, 2011.

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This conversation originally aired on November 24, 2009.

The transition to adulthood is difficult for many young people--but factoring in a dysfunctional home life and the emotional distress that most youth in foster care are burdened with--turning 21 or "aging out," can make impending adulthood, far more challenging.

Five years after the Place Matters program was launched in Maryland, there are 1,700 fewer children in Maryland's foster care system. Why--and what's next? Sheilah asks Ted Dallas, secretary of Maryland's Department of Human Resources and Molly McGrath, the director of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services.

Baltimore's Wye Oak plays in Washington this weekend with art-rockers Dirty Projectors. We'll meet head Projector Dave Longstreth and take a look their last album, "Bitte Orca."

The Olympics are over--but there are still world renowned athletes to watch.  Next week in London, the Paralympics begin.  They’re a series of international sporting events in which the competitors have physical disabilities.

This conversation originally aired on January 25, 2012.

Superman is just one of the many characters that made the transition from comic book character to American icon.  With more and more graphic novels making a splash in the publishing world, the whole notion of what a comic book is has changed dramatically over the past few years, and it’s not just kids who are reading them.