4/24 New Podcasts/Blog

Surf on over to our new website for the latest podcasts and blogs.
We’ve got an interview with Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Dr. Andres Alonso here.
We talked with BCPSS students about violence in their schools; hear it here.
And this morning Marc talked with Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz about how much the Iraq War is [...]

4/21 New Blog

New blog post from Marc at the Center for Emerging Media blog.
4/21 from Marc

4/21 Goodbye WordPress!

Well, friends, it is time for CEM and Marc Steiner to move on from WordPress.com.  We’ve enjoyed our time blogging on this site, but we just launched a brand new website and we’re going to blog over there for now on.  We’re going to keep this site up for archival purposes, but all new blogging [...]

4/18/08 from Marc

Random Thoughts..
First, where is everybody? It seems that very few of you have questions or comments for Mayor Sheila Dixon. So, is that disinterest in city politics, or more who could care what she says, or this kind of stuff is just ho hum? Well, we [...]

Students – Your Thoughts on School Violence?

We’re planning a series of interviews and discussions about violence in Baltimore schools beginning next week.  We’d like to invite everyone to share their thoughts and experiences on the topic, especially those involved in the school system as students, teachers, administrators, parents, and other school workers.  We’d love to hear from as many students as [...]

4/17 from Marc, on WYPR BOD meeting

I heard from a number of people what occurred at the WYPR Board of Director’s meeting.
I suppose some of you heard what happened to Kay Dellinger when she left the meeting. She was among the last to leave, and encountered WYPR GM Tony Brandon in the parking lot talking to one of the police officers [...]

4/16/08 Andrei Codrescu Podcast!

Andrei Codrescu left Romania as a teenager, made his way to the United States via Italy, and after spending time in many parts of the country including Detroit and New York City, eventually settled in New Orleans.  He teaches English at LSU in Baton Rouge and has been providing commentary for NPR’s All Things Considered [...]

4/15 from Marc

School Violence
Any of you who saw the tape of a student beating art teacher Jolita Berry were rightly horrified. Any of you who work in our schools understands what led to this and knows that disrespect for teachers and the threat of violence felt by students and teachers is a common occurrence in [...]

4/11/08 Andrei Codrescu is in town

We started the morning off today with a visit from Andrei Codrescu, writer of many formats and NPR commentator.  He’s in Baltimore for a reading and talk tonight at CCBC Essex as part of their Creative Writing Forum.  Click here for all of the info on tonight’s event.  Marc and Andrei sat down and spoke [...]

4/09/08 from Vietnam, to Annapolis, to the movies

This has been an interesting week.    First, the Peabody Award comes for our work on the series we produced called Just Words.   It was funded by the Open Society Institute and aired on WYPR for a little over a year.    We submitted the work for the prestigious Peabody but had no expectations of winning one.  [...]