Maryland Morning

This morning at 8:30, the U.S. Department of Labor will release its unemployment report for the month of July. 

Meanwhile, about two weeks ago, the Maryland unemployment report for June came out, showing that the state lost about 11,000 jobs in that month, up from the month before.

This conversation originally aired on August 15, 2011.

8/22/12 CORRECTION: The income threshold for the City Arts building is $36,000, not $26,000.

This conversation originally aired on January 8th, 2012.

This conversation originally aired on November 11th, 2011.

Loretta Reynolds grew up just off Erdman Avenue on the eastern edge of Baltimore as the youngest of five girls. In 1982 she graduated from Seton High School, now Seton Keough, and when she finished there, she headed to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

This conversation originally aired in June 2012.

This conversation originally aired on September 20th, 2011.

In November of 1825, a 22-year-old lawyer, John H. B. LaTrobe, gathered a group of some of Baltimore’s most prominent citizens to organize a new school. They called the school the “Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.”  

Changing streetlamps to LED lighting may save money, but some are concerned that it's coming at the cost of safety. We'll talk to lighting experts and hear from city officials about what the new lights mean for Baltimoreans.

Then: Nearly 10 percent of Baltimore’s acreage is parks. The Trust for Public Land ranks Baltimore’s parks 15th out of 40 cities. We’ll ask their lead researcher how far the parks have come since he graduated from Johns Hopkins 40 years ago.

Today we're sharing listener reactions to several of our recent segments.

Friday, August 4-Sunday, August 5

The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory

Love’s Labour’s Lost, Saturday 2:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m.

The Taming of the Shrew, Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 2:00 p.m.

The Evergreen House

Baltimore

Saturday, August 4

Opening reception for Joe Germerhausen’s show “Figure It Out: Figure Studies and Paintings”

Gallery 1448

Baltimore, 6:00 p.m. 

Recent reports have detailed the devastating effects on prisoners of long-term solitary confinement, even questioning whether it rises to the

Corbin on solitary confinement history