07/31/07 Ex-Felons’ Voting Rights

Should someone who has been convicted of a felony be allowed to vote after they finish their sentence and return home from prison?
The laws governing ex-felons voting rights vary from state to state, and many have changed in the last few years.  Ex-felons can now vote in most states, now including Maryland as of this [...]

7/30 Gore Vidal

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A rebroadcast of Marc’s November 2006 interview with essayist, novelist, playwright, author and political critic Gore Vidal whose latest memoir is titled Point to Point Navigation.
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7/30 Military Recruitment

The past two months have seen a decline in military enlistment. Where the military was once seen as  means of upward mobility and obtaining an education, concern over the possibility of being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan has led to a decline in military enlistment.
Guest host, Goucher College President, Sanford Ungar discussed the methods the military is using to [...]

7/26 Cal Ripken

In honor of his induction, this week into the Baseball Hall of Fame, we are rebroadcasting Marc’s interview with Baltimore Oriole’s legend Cal Ripken, Jr. He’s known as the Iron Man for breaking Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game streak in 1995. Ripkin played 21 seasons with the Orioles and and that time he was voted Rookie of the [...]

7/26 Sports Roundtable

The sports world has been rocked to its foundations in the last week or so, with allegations that an NBA referee bet on games, including some he worked. In addition, one of the NFL’s marquee players is facing federal charges that he operated a dog fighting operation on his property. Meanwhile, the greatest career accomplishment [...]

7/25/07 Police Detection

The popularity of television shows like Cold Case and CSI have proven to be ratings winners for networks and resulted in increased interest in detective work. But real life seldom mirrors television and the work of the police is not wrapped up in an hour with commercial breaks.
 
This hour Marc talked with Lieutenant Terry Mc Larney [...]

07/25/07 Tsvi Bisk, The Optimistic Jew

I’m not Jewish.  When I told two friends who are Jewish about today’s show with Tsvi Bisk, I said, “He basically says that Jews need to stop being so obsessed with the past.”  These two friends come from about as different political viewpoints as possible, but they each said, “He’s right.  Jews are obsessed with [...]

07/25/07 Future of the Bay

Our Beloved Bay
Today at noon we brought you a conversation with Gerald Winegrad.  He is a former state senator who is now a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.  We invited him on because of a recent op-ed he wrote for the Baltimore Sun called What it will take to restore [...]

07/24/07 Bottled Water

(Plastic Bottles, 2007 by Chris Jordan)
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
Next to the cell phone and the i-pod, the accessory du jour is a bottle of water. Whether it’s Fiji, Deer Park, Aquafina or Dasani, the bottled water industry is a billion-dollar business. But why do [...]

07/24/07 Md. State Comptroller Peter Franchot

Marc’s guest this hour was former Montgomery County Delegate now Maryland State Comptroller Peter Franchot. Franchot has been in the news of late for his clashes with Governor Martin O’Malley over the state budget, slots and a Queen Anne County land deal.
Critics of Franchot feel his attempts to raise the profile of the Comptroller’s office [...]