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Baltimore is a city of renters. Of the 622,000 of us who live here, more than half of us rent, rather than own, our homes. The majority of renters are low…

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, and we’ll use our extra day to ponder how the political divide in America has become so pronounced. If a series of victories…

One in four Baltimore residents lives in a so-called food desert -- a place without easy access to healthy, nutritious food. The Reverend Heber Brown, a…

More people have chosen to vote early in this year's primary election than ever before. What does that tell us about what to expect on election day? If…

The violence that followed Freddie Gray’s funeral last year and increased scrutiny of police departments nation-wide have focused attention on the…

Public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson says that our criminal justice system treats people who are rich and guilty better than those who are poor and…

Liz Lerman, a MacArthur award winning dancer and choreographer joins Tom to discuss her new appointment as a Professor in the Herberger Institute of…

We continue our Focus on the Counties Series with a conversation with first term Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner. Elected in 2014, Ms. Gardner is…

Bowie State University in Prince George’s County, one of the oldest historically black universities in the country, is celebrating its 150th anniversary.…

We begin today with an update on what's been going on in the Maryland General Assembly, five weeks away from "sine die," the last day of the 2016…

Millions invested in the Sandtown neighborhood did not reverse the toll of illegal drugs and vanishing jobs. A week after Freddie Gray’s funeral, we asked…

An apprentice /can learn career skills without taking on student debt. Apprenticeships have been concentrated in the building trades, but there’s a move…

Continuing our series of conversations as we approach the one year anniversary of the funeral of Freddie Gray and the violence that followed, Dr. Cheryl…

Interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis joins us to discuss the relentless surge in shootings. Mayor Rawlings-Blake told WYPR the city is making…

Before the Supreme Court’s historic decision last summer that said states could no longer ban same-sex marriage, there was Edie Windsor, a woman in her…

Dr. Leana Wen joins us for this month’s edition of Healthwatch. With an extended Code Red heat alert in effect for the Baltimore region, what precautions…

Two decades ago, new research and new diagnostic tools led to a sharp rise in the numbers of children diagnosed with autism. The surprising prevalence of…

Fifty years ago last August, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. This morning historian Taylor Branch and legal scholar F.…

Dr. Carla Hayden joins Tom for her first interview since being confirmed by the Senate July 13 as the next Librarian of Congress. After 23 years in what…

Baltimore City public schools filled some key vacancies this week. We look at the hiring left to do, how Frederick Douglass High near Mondawmin Mall is…