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Protesting Youth Jails; State Center Redevelopment; Lizzie Skurnick's Modern Words

Tyler Merbler

Protesters stopped traffic yesterday in Baltimore over a planned 30 million dollar youth jail to be built in the city. We ask Pastor Jamal Bryant, who organized the protest, why the youth jail shouldn't happen.

Then – Just north of Baltimore's downtown, a light-rail stop, a metro station and a set of 1950s-era government buildings inhabit a 28-acre site called State Center. It’s been slated for redevelopment for years - we talk through why those efforts have stalled and what's happening now.

Plus: Sometimes the perfect word hasn’t yet been invented… so you have to do it yourself. Writer Lizzie Skurnick has written a new book of words she’s coined, including woogle, slumbrage, and crambitious. Tom Hall finds out what they mean.