12/17-12/21 HOLIDAY MUSIC

Time for our annual Holiday Music week.  Here is what is coming up!
Monday, December 17th
12-1 pm Lea Gilmore shares her favorite music.  Want to check out some of what she played?  Here is the playlist.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside, performed by Eric Byrd and Lea Gilmore
Santa’s Got the Blies, by Denise Lasalle
Please Come Home for Christmas, [...]

12/13/07 The Bay

I went down to southern Maryland last August and took this picture standing in the Chesapeake Bay at Calvert Cliffs, although maybe that wasn’t such a good idea.  Beautiful place, but the water didn’t quite look as clean as it might have.
This hour we’ll be talking about what really would need to be done to clean [...]

12/13/07 Helicon

 
Time for one of our annual shows. HELICON, a great band that reunites once a year to play an annual winter solstice concert, will be in the studio today from 1-2 to bring you some great music.  We’ll be hearing Ken Kolodner on hammered dulcimer, hammered mbria and fiddle; Chris Norman on wooden flutes, tin [...]

12/12/07 In 15 Minutes..

..we go on the air.  Just time for a quick post today.
In the first hour, we’ll be looking at the role religion is playing in the ‘08 presidential campaigns, so far, and more broadly at the role religion plays and has played in American political life.  What does it say about our society that a [...]

12/11/07 Foster Care Reform

Here’s a picture from earlier this year of Governor O’Malley swearing Brenda Donald in as the new Secretary for Maryland’s Department of Human Resources.  With her job, comes the responsibility of running the state’s foster care system.
About a month ago, we had a show looking at the foster care system, which I described at the time like [...]

12/10/07 Surge?

What effect has the increased level of US troops, ‘the surge,’ had in Iraq?  Statistics show decreased levels of violence, but does that constitute a success?  There are still tragic amounts of daily violence, and a host of other problems, throughout Iraq.  What would a “good” outcome to the war look like at this point?
 Joining [...]

12/10/07 Kid’s Books

Does anyone remember this book, “Owl At Home?”  I remember a lot of great books from my childhood, but this one has really stuck with me for some reason.  I picked it up again a few years ago, and was struck by how emotionally evocative it was.  Arnold Lobel, also the creator of the Frog [...]

12/06/07 What to Eat?

Marion Nestle will be here at 1pm today, and looking at the cover of her most recent book above, you can see the some of the questions we’ll be discussing.  She’s got a great blog - check it out here.  And don’t forget to let us know what you think as you listen to her [...]

12/6/07 Mothers

In my work as producer for the Just Words series, I’ve come to believe that inner city mothers are the new stoics.  I can’t tell you how many times I have asked a mother “How do you deal with all this?” and they just look at me like I am crazy to even imagine that [...]

12/05/07 Deputy Mayors

Dixon at yesterday’s inauguration.. who’s the guy in the suit?
Sheila Dixon was sworn in as Mayor of Baltiomore yesteday, after being Mayor for about a year already, since the guy in the suit left this small town for a nice position in Annapolis.  Can’t blame him, being Mayor is not an easy job.
Today we’ll welcome [...]