Maryland Morning

The first incarnation of the International Tracing Service was established in 1943 with the goal of tracing people who’d been displaced during World War II.  Now, close to six decades later, the organization still receives hundreds of requests for information from people who were either victims of Nazi persecution, or from their family members.

Of course it's important for medical and nursing students to learn how to talk with patients about HIV and AIDS. We’ll find out why the University of Maryland is now teaching students in other professions, too.

Then, an Emmittsburg woman who finally found time to write her debut novel- at age 89.

Beverly Swaim-Staley has one week left as Maryland's Transportation Secretary.  We ask her about traffic, trucks, trains, tolls, taxes and mass transit. 

There are over 12,000 square miles in Maryland, and chances are you don’t traverse them solely on foot.  Whether your chosen mode of transit is bus, train, automobile, or scooter, chances are you’ve been affected by the policies of the Department of Transportation.

Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck has been to see Shana Unsettled, written by Ronda Cooperstein and co-directed by Jim Knipple and Janel Miley.  It's playing through July 15 at Fells Point Corner Theatre as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. 

Leonard Pitts, Jr., is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist whose work appears in the Baltimore Sun and newspapers across the country. He is also a novelist. His latest book is an historical novel that takes place at the end of the Civil War.

Sparrows Point is synonymous with steel, but as steelmaking on the point comes to at least a temporary standstill, people are looking for ways to bring other jobs to the peninsula. Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz sees an opportunity in the Port of Baltimore, which is hoping to expand.  To figure out possible uses, he’s formed the Sparrows Point Partnership, which meets for the first time tomorrow.  Sheilah speaks with the County Executive about the partnership.