Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Format: 2013-05-18

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.

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

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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.

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Female U.S. military veterans cope with the same re-entry challenges as any veteran plus, in many cases, the added struggle of MST-–military sexual trauma.  Today, we'll meet veteran BriGette McCoy (left), who testified last month to a Senate subcommittee about the aftermath of her rape, and Patricia Lee Stotter, co-producer of the film Service: When Women Come Marching Home, which screens tomorrow at the University of Maryland.


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Nathan Sterner checks in with Technically Baltimore's Andrew Zaleski for the latest in the region's tech news.

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High-school, hormones and the heartland. Maryland Morning theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck brings us her review of the Baltimore premiere of "Slipping." The play is up at the Baltimore Theatre Project until April 13.

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Tom Hall talks with acclaimed short-story writer George Saunders, who will be in town for the CityLit Festival Saturday.

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Today, on The Lines Between Us, Maryland's four Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Morgan State, Coppin State, Bowie State and the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore. What do they mean for a college student in the 21st century? And, if Maryland has been systematically underfunding HBCUs, as a federal lawsuit alleges, what exactly does the state owe these institutions? We talk with a Morgan State professor, the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, and a student who transferred out of an HBCU.

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Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post joins Jed Dietz of the Maryland Film Festival to discuss the legacy of film critic Roger Ebert.  They also talk about the movies coming out this month, including The Sapphires, Ginger & Rosa, The Place Beyond the Pines, and Spring Breakers.

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