Maryland employers created more jobs last month than any month in the last five years. That rise follows a dip in previous months. We ask two economists what it tells us about the kinds of jobs being created.
Then, grocery stores, with their limited profit margins, are few and far between in the city of Baltimore. Tom Hall talks with a former grocery-store owner and the city's food-policy director about how to create incentives that make for successful grocery stores.
Plus, Dashiell Hammett, master of the hard-boiled detective novel, was born in southern Maryland 121 years ago this week. His tight plots and spry dialogue have inspired many writers since including one of the two Maryland authors who clue us in to their new murder mysteries.