Sheilah Kast
Host, On The RecordSheilah Kast hosts On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. She came to WYPR from NPR 2006. In 2014 she and her team at Maryland Morning won a prestigious Dupont-Columbia University award for a year-long probe of inequality in the Baltimore region called “The Lines Between Us.” Sheilah learned how to report the news at The Washington Star, and learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV.
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Natasha Dartigue, the state’s public defender, discusses how to address inequities in who Maryland puts behind bars, for how long. -
Fewer Marylanders are dying from overdoses. We ask the top state official whose job is to fight overdoses - Why? And what’s the strategy to continue the trend? -
The non-profit Intersection of Change has seen promises and good intentions come and go. They always put in the work. -
Here's a Stoop story from Jason Newton about life as an optimist. -
Climate activist Mike Tidwell paid close attention for a year to his own block in Takoma Park: Why were so many trees dying? What happened when they did? How was all that connected to the increased flooding he saw in his neighborhood? How was all affecting his neighbors? -
Across Maryland, kids in middle and high schools are expanding their ideas of their futures: career counseling for every student is mandated by the Blueprint, the education reform law. Students visit workplaces, hear from employers, explore their aptitudes. How is it working? We ask advocates, a counselor and a high-school senior. -
Baltimorean-turned-New Yorker Murray Kempton’s New York newspaper columns spanned the 20 century with clear insights about who America was leaving behind. -
Gov. Wed Moore: "We need to better understand and address what’s happening with our men and boys." -
Maryland’s General Assembly session that’s wrapping up tonight. What is still on the table? -
CityLit Project executive director Carla DuPree gives highlights of this year's CityLit Festival!
