Midday

Each week here on Midday, it is our practice to read the names of the people who have lost their lives to violence in Baltimore City.

Baltimore City's Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming joins us to discuss the lawsuit she's filed in her records-access fight with Mayor Brandon Scott.

Updates on Maryland's contentious redistricting efforts from WYPR State House reporter Sarah Petrowich, and WYPR's Scott Maucione on the Maryland AG's suit to block a DHS detention center in Washington County.

Two news guild chairs — Dan Belson of the Baltimore Sun and Ariel Wittenberg of POLITICO's E&E News — discuss their concerns over the Baltimore Sun's trial use of AI to write two recent news analyses.

NPR Climate Desk correspondent Rebecca Hersher examines how Maryland is responding on several fronts to the urgency of climate change.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Fences," August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 play, in a new production by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.

Currently, children aged 14 and older in Maryland can be charged as adults for first-degree murder and rape charges. At 16 or older, the list of quantifiable crimes for automatic charging expands to 33.

In his imaginitive new novel, "Vigil," author George Saunders explores themes of life and death, good and evil, corruption and absolution.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen joins Midday to discuss his perspectives on key issues affecting Maryland and the nation.

The Rhinelander trial scandalized the nation, and revealed Americans' deep anxieties about race and class at the beginning of the 20th century.