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Living witnesses to history are a precious (and often overlooked) cultural resource.  What young people read in textbooks about 20th century history is alive and well in the minds of neighborhood elders who’ve experienced it firsthand.

The Baltimore Ravens are going to the Super Bowl. They'll square off against the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans on February 3rd. Tom Hall talks with Mark Hyman about last night's AFC Championship game and looks ahead to the Super Bowl.

Governor O'Malley's proposed 2013 budget is due on Friday.  Revenue forecasts are higher this year, but the state transportation fund is in need of money for new projects.  We talk with UMBC political science professor Roy Meyers about what will get funded--and what might get ignored.

Expect a complex ballot in November:  Once you finish voting for President, Senator, Congressperson, and multiple  referendum questions, then you might have a series of bond issues to vote on. UMBC political scientist Roy Meyers tells you what you need to know when you get there.

Then – Members of the local Muslim community respond to the film Innocence of Muslims, which has spurred international outrage and which some say led to the deaths of four Americans in Libya.

University of Maryland Baltimore County professor Bill Thomas has made an international reputation as a geriatrician and nursing-home reformer.  He generated a new approach to running nursing homes called “The Eden Alternative."

Thomas on the good and bad in his characters

Seeking to improve the educational outcomes for African-American students--which reports detail are rather bleak--President Obama formed the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African-Americans last week.

Dr. Hrabowski on how the Commission can replicate--on a larger scale--some of UMBC's efforts with underserved students

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.