Maryland Morning

This segment originally aired on November 30, 2009.

Should students be punished for skipping school? Or rewarded for attending? Sheilah talks with a Juvenile and Domestic Relations Master about a truancy reduction program used in some school systems in Maryland.

Giving the FBI more than they could ever ask for and turning it into art.

Musicologist Ian Nagoski brings to life the music and times of early 20th Century immigrants from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire.

Maryland is the first state to try to measure not just its economy but its quality of life. How do you measure the cost of crime, or the price of noise? We talk with Sean McGuire, Director of Sustainability Policies at the Department of Natural Resources about the Genuine Progress Indicator and the picture it paints of Maryland.

This segment originally aired on August 11, 2010.

Two summers ago, the New York Times Sunday Magazine published an article titled, "Is Jousting the Next Extreme Sport?"

Jousting, of course, is the Maryland state sport, and the article briefly mentioned a Maryland-based jouster named Paul Schneider.

Conversation originally aired August 3, 2009.

Loretta Reynolds grew up just off Erdman Avenue on the eastern edge of Baltimore as the youngest of five girls. Today she is Brigadier General Reynolds, and commands Parris Island, the famous training grounds for the U.S. Marine Corps. She'll tell us her story.

Then – The Olympics are over, but the Paralympics are just gearing up!  We'll talk with Baltimore’s own Jessica Long, who'll be going for the gold in swimming.

This conversation was originally broadcast on December 20, 2011.

This conversation originally aired on November 21, 2011.

This conversation originally aired on February 27, 2012.

This conversation originally aired on November 24, 2009.