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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott tests positive for COVID-19. The Baltimore County Council votes tonight on whether to extend the county’s state of emergency. Maryland hospitals have made progress in vaccinating staff, but staff shortages remain a top challenge. Plus we’ll hear from the director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics on the issue of mandating vaccines.

Why are there a bunch of streams hidden underground below Baltimore?

Baltimore’s top health official says the city would drop its mask mandate if multiple COVID-19 trends drop for two weeks. Maryland hospitals are taking measures to reduce a nursing staff shortage. As homicides continue to go up across the country, Baltimore is also on pace to reach a grim milestone. Landmark police laws in Maryland took effect today. Drawing the redistricting lines in the county to better reflect the non white population draws ire. And renters hold a “sleep out” in Annapolis to draw attention to a dire housing crisis.

On the latest episode, Low frontman Alan Sparhawk talks about how the music of Roberta Flack, The Clash, and Pere Ubu shaped his work.

Vaccine rollout for 5 to 11 year olds is set to launch next week. Today, open enrollment kicks off for health care, and young Marylanders can take advantage of newly affordable options. Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski declares an end to his state of emergency. And we break down a recent America’s Health Rankings report on women and children.

Sammy talks to two Baltimore chefs, Chef Catina Smith and Chef Kiah Gibian.

On this episode of Your Childs Brain, Dr. Mary Leppert, Dr. Joanna Burton, Dr. Gwendolyn Gerner discuss infant and early child development.

It’s not quite a meeting at the OK Corral, but a Twitter spat between Maryland’s Governor and Baltimore’s Mayor over the City’s violent crime rate, has led to an upcoming meeting. We’ll hear from Mayor Scott and Governor Hogan. Plus, Baltimore County’s leader has ended speculation about whether or not he’ll run for Governor.

Danny discovers that for many in the company their brush with the paranormal goes back to their childhood, and for some, the ghosts were not always welcome visitors. We hear from academic Dr. Hollis Robbins, medium Dr. Gwen F. MacGregor, paranormal investigator Elyse Caudill Corker, and host Marc Steiner from Everyman Theatre's “World of the Play” discussion around the production of Blithe Spirit back in 2015.

Conversations concerning the paranormal typically lend themselves to the sensational, but Danny has discovered they can also open deeper discussions about trauma, the afterlife, and a region’s rich history.Danny looks back on some of the other ghostly happenings at Everyman Theatre's historic space and explores the rich history of Baltimore’s Bromo Arts District, particularly Lexington Market, to learn how the past still haunts the present with UMBC American Studies professor Dr. Nicole King.

Everyman Theatre's porter, Shammah Moore, has had more than his fair share of ghostly experiences at the theater and attributes them to a shootout that occurred there back in 1953. Danny and Company unfold the events of that fateful day through anecdotes and revelatory newspaper clippings.

The U.S. changes course on its opposition to lifting patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines. A federal judge rules the CDC’s moratorium on evictions overstepped legal bounds, so what does this mean for Maryland renters? The state shores up efforts to get nursing home patients and staff vaccinated. And a hate crime murder in Towson will be remembered at the scene of the crime, more than a century-and-a-half later.

A multi-million dollar partnership between Maryland and private organizations will help disadvantaged children hit hardest by the pandemic. Baltimore’s Mayor announces a pilot program to divert certain mental health calls away from BPD and to a new crisis unit. Plus, we talk with the young organizers behind this weekend’s Virtual Prom 2021.

Appeals Court Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, analysis of flooding in Annapolis, and summer books with Carla Hayden, head of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

The future of Baltimore's recreation centers and pools, Rita Zoey Chin's new memoir "Let the Tornado Come," J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Woolly Mammoth's…

Can a cup of coffee act as a memory enhancer? Then, preserving the local stories of real-life "Rosie the Riveters." Plus, Pakistani author MohsinHamid,…

Federal drug sentencing changes, a Confederate prisoner-of-war turned artist, theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Legally Blonde: The Musical", and…

We examine the gender pay gap in Maryland. Plus, the photographs of A. Aubrey Bodine. Then, a new 'Senior Portrait,' and Caleb Stine talks about his…

An effort in Baltimore to keep prostitutes off the streets and out of the criminal justice system, our theater critic reviews five plays in seven minutes,…

How does labor trafficking look in Maryland? Then, putting Frankenstein online. Plus, James McBride on bringing "The Good Lord Bird" to life.