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The seemingly endless stream of college football bowl games has been underway for the last few days. Two of the four Bowl Championship Series games, the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl, were played yesterday. The Sugar Bowl is tonight. The Fiesta Bowl is tomorrow night, and on Monday night, the BCS National Championship Game will pit undefeated Notre Dame against Alabama.

This segment originally aired on May 8, 2012.

In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.   The idea was to prevent another global recession. But has it worked?  We ask former regulator and University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger.

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.

Baseball in the year that shook America In "Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball 'And America' Forever," author Tim Wendel captures the turmoil and rapid political change of the late '60s by weaving together a story about the country's most iconic pastime: baseball.

Maryland-based author Paul Dickson chronicles the life of one of baseball's most colorful characters and legends, the showman, promoter and multi-team owner, Bill Veeck. It was Veeck who, after failing to make the St. Louis Browns a success and force the Cardinals out of that town, sold the franchise to a Baltimore group that brought Major League Baseball to Charm City in 1954. But that's just a small part of the Veeck story. Paul Dickson is the author of " Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick."
Original airdate: 06/12/12

A decade-long portrait of Baltimore in data: from crime to grime to graduation to transportation.

Tomorrow in Central West Baltimore, some residents will be partying their way across lines of race, class, and geography.

Tom talks sports with author and journalist Mark Hyman.

A joint General Assembly committee is recommending that Democratic Senator Ulysses Currie be censured for his ethical lapses. Meanwhile, a special Senate committee is trying to reform ethics rules for the rest of the legislature.