Maryland Morning

Maryland Morning’s resident foodie Sascha Wolhandler, of Sascha’s 527, stops by to give us some ideas for cool dinners on hot nights. 

Jicima Cole Slaw

Ingredients

Beginning with the Class of 2017—those students now entering eighth grade—all Maryland seniors will be required to pass an assessment test in government in order to graduate.  It’s part of a new law passed by the General Assembly this past spring. 

Hundreds of millions of people contract the parasite malaria every year; it kills more than 800,000 people annually.

The disease is spread by mosquitoes, and scientists at Johns Hopkins have made a discovery that could stop that spread: they’ve figured out how to tweak the bugs’ immune systems so that mosquitoes can fight it off.

This conversation originally aired on December 19, 2011.

The poet Ogden Nash moved to Baltimore as a young man, bringing with him a love of baseball that lasted his whole life. He adopted Baltimore, and the Orioles, with a passion reflected in an ode to baseball greats he published in 1949.

Sea levels are rising around the world, but they're rising even faster on Maryland's shores. We talk with the lead author of a U.S. Geological Survey report to find out why.

Then, we revisit a piece from our "Across the Divide" series in which a young Baltimorean tells us her story of ethnic identity.

Tom Hall talks to University of Maryland professor Michael Olmert about his play on the University's fight to integrate their football team.

Plus, author Allison Leotta talk to Sheilah about her sexy new legal thriller, Discretion.

Sea levels are rising around the world.

Allison Leotta is an author who’s channeling what she learned as a federal prosecutor of sex crimes … into sexy thrillers. She was a federal prosecutor in Washington for a dozen years. Her debut novel two years ago had a fast-moving plot that centered on a domestic-violence case.

Baltimore is the home of the “Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center,” which processes requests from families looking for information about loved ones who went missing during World War Two. We revisit a conversation with Sue Bornemann, who works at the center, and Bertha Shwarz, who enlisted its services. Then, a group of University Park residents pool their money and install solar panels on top of a local church. Plus, Tom Hall talks to Mike Sragow and Jed Dietz about the latest movie releases.

Tom Hall talks with our masters of movies, our foremost flop forecasters, our predominant motion picture ponderers–that is to say