Where do you get your ideas?

“Where do you get your ideas?” 
That’s usually the first question I get when I meet a listener.  Well, it ties for first with the question, “What’s Marc really like?”  (Answer: Pretty much as he is on the air, maybe a little less focused, lots of fun, sometimes a creative disaster area but makes up for [...]

05/31/07 Michael Sarbanes

Photo by Kim Hairston of the Baltimore Sun. Read the Sun’s article on Michael Sarbanes annoucement here.
You know, it’s good when someone who has been on the show a million times runs for office.  Instead of having to figure out who the heck their campaign director is and then attempting to find that persons number, [...]

05/31/07 Vacant Homes

Image borrowed from www.theamericas.org
Tomorrow we’ll be discussing the thousands upon thousands of vacant homes that plaque our city, and ideas for saving them.
I realized today that as Baltimore is only the second city I have ever lived in, I have never really thought about the vacant homes.  I never really questioned what they were doing [...]

05/30/07 Immigration

We’ve got a huge two hour special on immigration for you today.
 We begin with a look at the history of social attitudes towards immigration in America.  We’ll be joined by Daniel Tichenor, professor of political science at Rutgers and the author of two books on immigration.  He’ll talk about how this current ruckus over immigration [...]

05/29/07 Nora Pierce

Nora Pierce is a former student of Marc’s who just released her first novel, The Insufficiency of Maps.  She is also a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University.
Here are some links to more of her writing and more information.
East Side, West Side. (story)
Guess Who Loves Me Now? (story)
Official Simon & Schuster page
-Jessica Phillips

05/29/07 ACLU

In the first part of the second hour of today’s show, we welcome former Attorney General Steve Sachs, ACLU-MD Director Susan Goering, and ACLU-MD Archivest Suzanne Smith to look back at the extraordinary history of the ACLU here in Maryland.
Whether or not you agree with the politics of the ACLU, their history is fascinating.  Some of [...]

05/29/07 BGE

Coming up during the first hour of today’s show, we are going to discuss the upcoming rate increase in your BGE bill. 
 Here is an article in the Baltimore Sun about it.
Could former public service commissioners have done more to prevent this?  Is this rate increase unfair?  The same PSC order that okayed the rate increase [...]

5/28/07 Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, the Steiner Show crew won’t be here, but our show will  be!  We are bringing you two archived shows that are appropriate to the occasion.
At noon, we’ll revisit a show from December 4th, 2006.  You’ll hear Andrew Carroll discussing his book Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the words [...]

United Workers Association

This morning, our News Department did a report on the efforts of the United Workers Association to organize day laborers who are employed by temp agencies to be cleaners at Camden Yards.  
Those temp agencies are hired by a company called Knight Facilities Management that is based in Michigan.  KFM was hired by the Maryland Stadium [...]

5/24/07 Ray Cook

Today at Noon we had Ray Cook on.  He is the founder and organizer of On Our Shoulders, an organization that he runs to keep city kids from lives of violence and crime.  He comes on the show often.  We like his work and his frankness.
He spoke today about a rally he is organizing for [...]