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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last spring that antibiotics are over-used and erratically prescribed across hospitals in the U-S.…

Since it started five years ago The Charm City Circulator has accumulated a deficit of more than $11 million dollars, and without changes will continue to…

Maryland is getting 15 million dollars from the federal education department to expand access to Pre-Kindergarten programs. How many 4-year-olds will…

Are you in Baltimore for grad school? Are you going into debt? You are very much not alone. Grad school students make up about 14% of all those enrolled,…

Budget cuts are piling up on budget cuts in Maryland’s spending plans: some of the reductions Gov. Hogan has proposed extend subtractions made by then…

How is a generic drug different from one with a name-brand? We ask Dr. Jeremy Greene of Johns Hopkins, who delves into the history and make-up of generics…

Many colleges and universities have expanded their distance learning programs. How do local distance-learning institutions stay competitive? We ask the…

Teenagers are sometimes held in solitary confinement for far too long .. while awaiting adult charges in the Baltimore City Detention Center. That's…

Today we remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We take a look at the six-lane boulevard named after him that loops around downtown Baltimore.…

Baltimore City plans to cut off the water to 23,000 who are behind on their water bills. Community activists protest the move. We talk with the city's…

Nurses learn a code of ethics in school. How is that code put to the test in the real world? We ask Dr. Cynda Hylton Rushton, a professor of Clinical…

Today we cut through the numbers and acronyms to zero in on education spending: what different public school districts predict Gov. Hogan’s budget will…

A new plan brings ideas from around the Baltimore region to bear on some big issues: workforce development, transportation, housing. We learn that…

Maryland delegates heard testimony last week about a slate of new bills aimed at reforming labor laws for the more than one-million hourly wage workers in…

The yellow bus has long been an icon of public school systems, but in Baltimore, as in other big cities, tens of thousands of students ride public…

It’s Sine Die, the last day of this year’s General Assembly session. What have your lawmakers accomplished? What’s left for the last hours? WYPR…

In the spring of 2014, Tom Hall sat in on a couple of unusual college classrooms. Goucher college professors travel to Maryland prisons in Jessup to teach…

Former Baltimore police Commissioner Anthony Batts broke the silence he’s kept in public since Mayor Rawlings-Blake fired him two months ago. We ask City…

The Vacants to Value program, introduced in Baltimore with great fanfare five years ago, is intended to put committed homeowners into some of the city’s…

A symposium today at Johns Hopkins examines how trauma in the city affects not just the health of residents, but the health of the community itself. We…