Nutrition Diva

January is the month of diets, thanks to New Year's resolutions. It's also the month of quitting diets...thanks to New Year's resolutions.

Both biology and behavior explain why we often regain weight after a diet attempt. Recent research shows that spending some time maintaining your weight first helps you lose weight down the line.

We talk to Baltimore City Council President Bernard "Jack" Young who wants to force some city contractors to hire more city residents.

A little over a decade ago, a band called Oxes captured the hearts of Baltimore music fans with their loud guitars, weird meters, and even weirder performances. They're back with a new single. Today, they look back on their days as bassless provocateurs.

How to handle the onslaught of mammoth holiday meals.

This segment originally aired November 23, 2011.

We talk about the lawsuit between Baltimore Comptroller Joan Pratt and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and examine how it's affecting the functioning of city government.

How many books can you fit into a library the size of a birdhouse? We ask Lesley Noll, library services coordinator at The Village Learning Place. They're planning to bring "little free libraries" to Charm City.

More and more shelf space in supermarkets is being given over to "organic foods." And, of course, more and more people are mindful of the pesticides and other chemicals that are found in conventionally-grown, mass produced food.

Four years ago Goucher College thought it was striking a blow for academic freedom by hiring a professor so controversial he couldn't return to his native Rwanda. But, confronted with charges that he had taken part in the genocide there in 1994, the college dropped him. Now, Goucher's president has published an essay in New York Magazine exploring what happened and why. Today, we talk to Goucher College President Sanford Ungar.