10/31/07 Free Speech: Waters, Nader, Thomas

Last month MICA and the Maryland ACLU teamed up to put together a rather unusual celebration for Constitution Day, a holiday that not many people bother to celebrate in the first place.  They put together an event devoted to the First Amendment, and the right of free speech.  Who better to speak on this topic [...]

thoughts from Sarbanes after today’s show

Michael Sarbanes was kind enough to sit down in the next studio over with WYPR senior news producer, Mary Rose Madden, right after the Marc Steiner Show today.  Click here for the audio of their conversation, which includes additional ideas from him on the land bank plan, including any loose ends that he felt were [...]

10/30/07 New City Council Members

Assuming each of these Democrat nominees wins the general election next month, there will be four newly elected City Council members in Baltimore.  Today at 1pm you’ll have a chance to find out more about three of them, and the ideas they will be bringing to the City Council.  Sharon Middleton is already serving on [...]

10/30/07 Land Bank

 Some interesting stats on vacant houses and property in Baltimore:

13% of the total property in the city is abandoned

there are about 30,ooo abandoned buildings and lots in Baltimore

the city owns about 1/3 of the abandoned property

the city owns about 4,000 abandoned buildings and 6,000 abandoned lots

the city owns about 25% of vacant buildings

All of these figures [...]

10/29/07 Special Session Begins Today!

A special legislative session begins in Annapolis today, and while that might not be the most exciting news to everyone, it may end up having an impact on your daily life in more ways than one.  The goal of the session is to work toward balancing the state budget, which means finding more revenue than [...]

10-29 Sister Helen Prejean

Sister Helen Prejean is our guest today.  She’s the nun whose work with death row inmates was profiled in the Academy Award winning movie Dead Man Walking.  She joined Marc to talk about the death penalty, and why she believes it is not only morally wrong but replete with racial, economic, and geographic disparity as [...]

10/25 The Rothmans: Hollywood Insiders

Sunday, October 28 at 8:30 pm at the Charles Theater and Tapas Teatro, the Maryland Film Festival will hold its first fundraising event. One of the highlights will be a panel discussion entitled The Rothman’s: An Insider’s Look at the Movie Business. The talk will feature Donald Rothman, founding partner of the law firm Gordon, [...]

10/24/07 The Rothmans

You heard Marc’s short interview with the Rothmans today–now hear the full version online!  Just click here.
Sunday, October 28 at 8:30pm at the Charles Theater and Tappas Teatro the Maryland Film Festival will hold its first fundraising event. One of the events will be a panel discussion entitled The Rothman’s An Insiders Look at the [...]

10/25/07 Roger Kamenetz

 
You may have heard Marc interview Roger Kamenetz in the past.  He’s best known for two of his books, The Jew in The Lotus and Stalking Elijah.  His newest book is all about interpreting dreams in the context of spirituality.  It’s called The History of Last Night’s Dream.
It’s crazy to think that we all spend [...]

10/25/07 Rape

Today we’re discussing what is probably one of the uglier topics to be discussed.  Rape.
Some interesting things in the news lately:

Students at University of Maryland are protesting because they feel they should be able to name their alleged assailants on a public forum.  The University of Maryland disagrees. Learn more.
The Court of Appeals is currently [...]