In Baltimore recently, President Obama spoke in support of making employers pay for up to seven days when workers stay home sick. More than 700,000 workers in Maryland don’t get paid sick leave -- we get differing views on a bill in the General Assembly to change that.
Then, how can telling a story shape health policy? Tom Hall talks with the editor of a new book about the power of a doctor’s story… and with a prostate-cancer survivor who’s writing about his experience.
Plus, the new play at Center Stage imagines a meeting among Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, singer Sam Cooke, and football player Jim Brown in 1960s Miami. J. Wynn Rousuck has a review.
And, the Patriots won the Super Bowl. But, who won the advertising Super Bowl? Tom talks with a Hopkins marketing researcher about last night’s best ads.