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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. 

A sneak peek at the Maryland Stem Cell Symposium.

Maravene Loeschke the new president of Towson University.

Our theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck has been to see both theatrical productions in Baltimore — she brings us these reviews.

A new artistic director for Single Carrot Theater.

How do the homeless youth of Baltimore cope?

Dr. Najmaldin Karim, neurosurgeon from Silver Spring…and Governor of Kirkuk.

Tom Hall talks with Mark Hyman about football.

Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck brings us her review of a Baltimore production of the 1959 classic by Lorraine Hansberry.

Sheilah gets some analysis of last night’s Baltimore City mayoral candidates’ forum from Baltimore Sun City Hall reporter Julie Scharper.

There’s been lots of talk this election season about putting criminals behind bars. But what happens when they get out? Jericho Reentry Program case manager Greg Carpenter tells Sheilah what ex-offenders need to succeed, and what makes people ready to pull a trigger in the first place.

In disaster situations in which there aren’t enough resources, how do caregivers decide who to save–and who’s beyond help?

Tom talks to the Mercy Medical Center researcher behind a new surgical technique in which liquid chemotherapy is poured directly into the abdomen, and to an appendix cancer survivor who received the treatment.

Tom talks to Crownsville’s Chic Dambach, author of the new memoir “Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder,” about the Global Peace Index and why peace activism and peacebuilding are not the same thing.

The USPS is considering closing 42 Maryland post offices, many of them rural. We speak with a resident of Still Pond in Kent County, which has been without a post office since a fire last September.

A look at a new mobile app being used by the Baltimore police.

Tom Hall talks with Author Eric Goodman.

A review of the musical “Unraveled on the Gravel”–playing in Baltimore, but set on the Jersey Shore.

Maryland is well-known for the number of students who take AP classes, but not every Maryland high school student may have equal access to them. We’ll talk to two investigative reporters, and Maryland’s interim schools superintendent, about the “opportunity gap.”

Did you know that mid-summer can be a time for new beginnings? In life, yes — but specifically, in the garden. Maybe your tomato plants have died — but you still have time to use that patch of soil for something else.

With same-sex marriage becoming legal in a growing number of states outside of Maryland, how will Maryland and its counties handle benefits for the same-sex spouses of public employees?

Is the end near for most of Baltimore’s street trees?

Tom takes a tour of the new sculpture exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.

Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck has been to see “As You Like It” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” both of which are playing at outdoor venues in Maryland this summer. She brings us these reviews.

What should you know before you owe? A lot, says Congressman Elijah Cummings. Tomorrow, he’s hosting a town hall meeting in Baltimore with Elizabeth Warren, who’s President Obama’s choice to lead the newly-established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). We ask Cummings how the agency will affect Maryland consumers–and Maryland banks.

It’s a NASA air quality research mission!