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 [...]