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You can make the case that Baltimore won’t solve any of its challenges--crime, schools, jobs--unless it gets its public transportation system right. The…

What are Marylanders thinking? The latest Goucher College poll measures attitudes about sports betting and taxes, fears about coronavirus, and how well…

Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary says American health care is broken. He heaped his latest book with tales of doctors talking patients into surgeries…

A short virtual escape now from pandemic pains -- listening again to Laura Lippman discuss her latest mystery, 'Lady in the Lake,' set in Baltimore in the…

Artists and arts organizations have taken a hard financial hit since public gatherings were banned more than a month ago. Josh Kohn, Creative Alliance…

Author and critic Marion Winik opens our eyes to some fresh fiction by local authors. Hear more of Winik's picks on The Weekly Reader.Winik's…

People aren’t working as much or buying as many things--which hurts not only their individual economic lives, but the state’s revenues also. The state…

With all its full-service centers open again, the Y in Central Maryland is welcoming members back, after months of essential activity like meal…

"There’s an extraordinary need out there, by any measure. Within the first 24 hours of launching the program on Wednesday we had 1700 applications either…

Some scientists are calling urgent attention to the way the coronavirus can waft long distances through the air. These are not the droplets that fall to…

Here’s a Stoop Story from social worker and violence-prevention specialist David Ross about a lesson he learned from his favorite teacher. Check out more…

Just as tens of millions of Americans are making plans to vote by mail--came sudden reports of delayed deliveries, vanished equipment, slashed overtime.…

Here’s a Stoop Story from Maggie Master about the ups and downs of parenting and distance learning.You can join the Stoop for a free virtual show later…

The story of voting rights in the United States charts cycles of restriction and expansion. In her book, “Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in…

Imagine if the air you breathed changed your behavior. You may become reckless or disoriented, even see or hear less effectively.But you have to breathe…

This world of ours can be a dangerous place—and for many undersea creatures, camouflage means the difference between life and death.In some cases, it’s a…

Many of us have a romantic image of fishing: a weather-beaten waterman aboard a small fishing boat, hauling in a handmade rope net as a sou’wester…

It makes sense that the public is fascinated by sharks. In storytelling, they are compelling characters, if not scientifically accurate all the time.…

In the vastness of the ocean, there are many so-called animal to animal symbionts, seemingly odd-fellow relationships from which both species benefit. The…

Tridacna gigas, the giant clam of the Indo-Pacific, is the largest bivalve mollusk on Earth and the world's only sun-powered clam. It hosts a thick layer…