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This is the first year Maryland students will be taking standardized tests based on the new math and English curriculum standards called Common Core.…

Tomorrow is National Health Care Decision Day. It’s a day to raise awareness about end-of-life planning. Many Americans do not have a plan in place for…

The Tony Award-winning musical production of The Bridges of Madison County is now playing at The Kennedy Center. The 1992 book of the same name spent…

Last Summer, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Just a week after signing the bill that created Medicare, On August 6, 1965,…

It’s the third day of a Republican National Convention that has been nothing short of eventful. Delegates have convened in Cleveland to set the party’s…

Dean Naujoks fires up the engine of his boat at the Bell Haven Marina in Alexandria, Virginia, and heads out to his version of an office cubicle: the…

Because wild Chesapeake Bay oysters are increasingly scarce, many oyster harvesters are switching to growing their own oysters in tanks and underwater…

Recently Stevenson University, with support from the Maryland Bible Society and the Maryland Humanities Council, opened “Hallowed Beauty” an exhibition…

When President Lyndon B. Johnson gave the commencement speech at the University of Michigan in 1964 challenging Americans to build a "Great Society," the…

This weekend the past will embrace the present in West Baltimore during the first annual Billie Holiday Arts and Music Festival. Organizer Michael Johnson…

An apple tree grows in the last place you’d expect to find the Garden of Eden: beside a street in Baltimore City. The fruit on this tree grows plump, but…

Tony and Chef Cindy go live to take your questions and comments. From France to Mexico, listeners join the conversation to share their favorite travel…

The Affordable Care Act requires that insurers provide 45 preventive services to patients free of charge. What does this mean for the health of individual…

Good wine and the ingredients you’ll splurge on.Appetizers: caviar on oysters, shrimp, scallops and truffles Soup: Potato Leek Soup Consommé: egg whites,…

Today, a conversation about Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Maryland is home to four of the nation’s more than 100 institutions. Last month,…

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday -- marking what would have been the slain civil rights leader's 89th birthday -- we are talking about Dr. King’s…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken a lot of heat for not releasing his tax returns. While it isn’t mandatory, presidential…

Why doesn’t Baltimore have a first-rate public transit system? Why should a major US city have one subway line, rather than an entire subway system? And…

This is the season of the root vegetable, the heartiest and most die-hard of Maryland produce, the food that just keeps on giving. And Chef Jerry…

A new report by national nonprofit, the Corporation for Enterprise Development, finds that more than half of Baltimore families are “financially…