Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Format: 2013-05-21

How are Maryland’s counties preparing their budgets with state funds in limbo?

Facebook is now allowing users to list their status as an organ donor on their timelines. Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon Andrew Cameron played a role in that decision. We talk with him about possible outcomes.

Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the Vagabond Players production of Frost/Nixon.

Exploring the roots of the War of 1812 with author John Stagg.

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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake unveiled her Vacants to Value initiative in November 2010. The mayor’s goal is to rehabilitate more than 1,000 vacant buildings in targeted neighborhoods with program. Now, 18 months later after its launch, she joins us to talk about how far the program has come towards its goal.

It’s time for our annual rundown of the Maryland Film Festival

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Congress has less than five months to re-write the massive farm bill.  The version that was just voted out of the Senate Agriculture Committee would replace direct payments farmers receive from the government with a subsidized insurance plan for their crops. We'll find out what the bill could mean for Maryland farmers, and for the environment, and what happens if it expires in  September.
Then: Baltimore band Lower Dens has released its second album, called Nootropics.
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It’s time for Congress to reauthorize the five-year farm bill, and a version that just came out of the Senate Agriculture Committee would replace the direct payments that farmers receive from the government with an insurance plan for their crops. We’ll find out what the bill could mean for Maryland farmers, and for the environment.

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It looks like a seizure, it feels like a seizure–but it’s not caused by the same things that cause seizures--unraveling Pseudoseizures. 

Plus, friday is Fallen Heroes Day in Maryland. A ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium will honor the police officers, firefighters, and corrections officers who’ve been killed in the line of duty in Maryland. This year, that is one: State Trooper 1st Class Shaft S. Hunter, killed last May while patrolling Interstate 95. Sheilah talks about his life and work with his mother, Princella Hunter.

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A new report from the Brookings Institute examines how Baltimore could encourage growth in certain sectors to help low-earning residents find better-paying jobs.  Galloping gadgets and gizmos!

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This week, police arrested a Baltimore woman for stabbing her baby during a supervised visit with a social worker. We’ll talk to Molly McGrath, director of the Baltimore division of the Department of Social Services, and National Child Welfare Workforce Institute director Nancy Dickerson will tell us how dangerous a social worker’s job can be everyday.

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