Midday with Dan Rodricks

Untreated mentally ill people are more likely to be arrested, more likely to be incarcerated and more likely to commit another crime after release. In this hour of Midday on the Law, Judge Gale E. Rasin talks about the Baltimore Circuit Court's special effort to reduce violent offenses by providing defendants with community-based treatment instead of incarceration or probation. With Baltimore attorney Jim Astrachan.

Conventional wisdom holds that it takes years of hard work and some luck to rise to the top of your chosen field. But is there more to it? Through conversations with an array of successful men and women, some of them celebrities, authors Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield strive to determine if there's a formula for success. They are co-authors of "The Art of Doing: How super achievers do what they do and how they do it so well."

The series of federal budget cuts known as sequester are set to  begin on Friday effecting millions of Americans and threatening the jobs of nearly 50-thousand Maryland residents. We discuss the scope of sequester with our guests: Melissa Deckman, chair and professor of Political Science and the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs at Washington College and Barry Rascovar political columnist for the Gazette and a communications consultant.

In today’s technology driven world, most people have either tried online dating or know someone who has. According to the dating site Match.com, one in five relationships now begins on the Internet. Online dating is a $2 billion industry. But is it really making dating easier? And how is it destroying romance? Journalist Dan Slater looks into this brave new world of matchmaking in "Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating."