Annapolis

Tomorrow Governor O'Malley will sign into law new restrictions on guns in Maryland. We talk to the woman leading a referendum drive against the bill and to a researcher who studies gun laws across the country.

Tom Hall talks to the winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr prize, the largest undergraduate literary award in America.

Preakness is here Saturday. What will you be serving at your Preakness Party? Sascha Wolhandler has some ideas.

The Maryland Morning Culture Calendar: treats for aesthetes!

April 17, 2013

April 9, 2013

Lawmakers are heading home after three months in Annapolis.  While there, they created a gas tax, banned the death penalty, and created new gun laws. We talk with two reporters about the 2013 legislative session.

We visit the oldest continually operating blacksmith shop in the country, G. Krug and Son, located in downtown Baltimore.

Melinda O'Neal has been directing Baltimore's Handel Choir since 2004.  Now, as she finishes up her final season, we talk about her tenure as conductor.

April 9, 2013

This morning the House of Delegates begins debating Governor O'Malley's gun control bill.  As it stands, the measure would ban assault-style weapons and strengthen the requirements to buy a handgun in Maryland.  We talk with two of the delegates involved in the debate:  Luiz Simmons, Democrat of central Montgomery County, and Mike Smigiel, Republican of the Upper Shore.

April 2, 2013

UPDATE: April Fool's! Deerbeard--some of you who contacted us will be extremely happy to know--does not exist. It is the folly of Maryland Morning producers Lawrence Lanahan, Matt Purdy, and Jamyla Kay.

March 20, 2013

February 27, 2013

The full interview

Should big, rural counties get more early voting centers?

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.