9/26 Ambition

Ambition is defined as an eager or strong desire to achieve something. However, it’s a quality we applaud or abhor in people. Depending on your age, gender or socio-economic status, ambition can be a good or bad thing.
According to one of our guests this hour, ambition is the inner drive that pushes someone to achieve [...]

9/26 State Revenue and Taxes

If you’ve watched the local news or read the papers in the past week you’ve, no doubt, seen Governor O’Malley at kitchen tables to discuss his plan to restructure state income tax. Last week the governor climbed to a rooftop to discuss his vow to close corporate loopholes which have allowed large companies to avoid paying millions in local [...]

09/25/07 Cynthia Enloe

Today for the second half of the one o’clock hour we’ll talk with Cynthia Enloe.
 
She is in town today to give the 1st annual Korenman lecture at UMBC, today at 4:30 pm. Go here for more information!
I don’t know how one gets to become known as “an international feminist treasure,” but I imagine it involves [...]

09/25/07 Banned Books

 
I’ll be honest. I originally decided to do a segment on Banned Books Week because I was fishing around for a last minute show idea. I thought, “Oh, this will be interesting. We can talk about all the great classics that were once banned!”
Basically, I equated the practice of banning books with history. As in, [...]

09/25/07 Gay Marriage

While there are always vociferous and vicious attacks against any gay rights legislation from some fundamentalist religious quarters, I think most Americans and most Marylanders are perplexed and don’t know what we should do.  Many, if not most, heterosexuals in our nation grew up in Christian, Muslim or Jewish homes where marriage was between a [...]