8/27 Media’s Role in Elections

Another election season is upon us. While there are five candidates seeking the office of Baltimore City Council President and nine candidates running for mayor how many candidates are you aware of? The same with the Democratic and Republican candidates running for next year’s presidential nomination. Can you name all of them?
When a number of [...]

The Other News Out There

On Tuesday, author Linda Perlstein is coming on the show.  I was looking up reviews for her new book Tested, which led me to Newsday’s site.  The headline of their current “most emailed” story caught my attention: “Televangelist Bynum recovering after attack.”  Another click revealed that it is also currently their “most viewed” story.  I was [...]

America’s Approval Rating

Let me recommend the website www.watchingamerica.com once again.  It’s a great website that translates into English articles about the United States from all over the world.
 I found a recent article from a Swiss paper of interest.  It’s called Can America ‘Find Love’ Again?  It’s basically advice from a Swiss columnist on how America could improve [...]

8/22/07 Dr. Andres Alonso

Tonight, a very special two hour Marc Steiner Show.  We bring you a conversation with Dr. Andres Alonso, the new CEO of Baltimore City Schools.  He’ll be on the air with the Chairman of the Baltimore City School Board.
My co-producer Marcus says he has seen this scenario a thousand times; a new official comes into [...]

08/22/07 President of Baltimore City Council Forum

Ooowee!  If you didn’t join us last night at the Enoch Pratt Free Library to hear the candidates for President of the Baltimore City Council argue their cases for why they should be elected, you missed out!  I’ll be honest; I wasn’t thrilled at the idea of working until 9:30.  But I had a great [...]

08/21/07 Cummings, Schools, Republicans, and Israel/Palestine

Today we bring you four fascinating interviews.

Congressman Elijah Cummings joins us to discuss the Iraq War and more.
We talk to Principal Susan Burgess and teacher Tracy Larkins from George Washington Elementary, a Baltimore City school that is having great results on standardized testing.  What are they doing right?
Our old friend Richard Vatz, Professor at Towson [...]

08/20/08 Frank DeFord

 
We did this GREAT interview with Frank Deford one April.  It was live in front of a crowd of people at Hood College.  It was great; Marc and Frank talking for an hour about sports and how sportsmanship has changed…the audience asked questions…everyone had fun and it was a great, great show.
A great, great show [...]

08/20/07 Open Phones

We’re back! We’re back! Did you miss us?
And as always after an extended time away…we bring you an hour of Open Phones to get back into the swing of things. What’s going on in the world that you care about? What made you mad last week? How do you feel about things?
We missed you! Give [...]

We’re out this week

Our “August Archive Axtravaganza” enters it’s final week.  Here is what you’ll be hearing!
Monday, August 13
Noon-1:00  The exhibit Gee’s Bend; The Architecture of the Quilt is currently on display at the Walters Art Museum. Two of the quilters, Mary Lee Bendolph and Louisiana Bendolph, join Marc in the studio to discuss the importance of quilting [...]

08/07/07 A. Robert Kaufman

 
I’ll be honest.  Sometimes, the phone calls from A. Robert Kaufman are not always the most welcome.  You know he is going to twist your ear about not having a certain viewpoint (read:his) on the show, and will give you a slightly long winded explanation of how he feels and the data to back his [...]