January 29, 2010
Maryland Film Festival Director Jed Dietz joins us from Park City, Utah to discuss the Sundance film festival. To read more from Jed, click here for his blog.
January 28, 2010
Turner Development Group recently paid $14 billion for Baltimore's Westport neighborhood, a part of the city that has fallen into disrepair since the Carr Lowrey Glass Company went out of business in 2003. Turner's idea is to transform Westport into an LEED Platinum designated, sustainable urban community, with green roofs and wetland buffers.
January 28, 2010
January 28, 2010
January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn passed away yesterday at 87. A historian, professor, activist, and writer, Zinn is best known for A People's History of the United States. Howard last appeard on The Marc Steiner Show on November 18, 2009. Here is his interview from that day.
January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn passed away yesterday at 87. A historian, professor, activist, and writer, Zinn is best known for A People's History of the United States. Howard last appeard on The Marc Steiner Show on November 18, 2009. Here is his interview from that day.
January 27, 2010
In our third segment, Marc talks about Apple's new gizmo, the iPad, and other technology innovations with Mario Armstrong, on-air tech contributor to NPR's Morning Edition and host of The Digital Spin, which airs every Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. on WEAA.
January 27, 2010
For our second segment, Marc talks with Kalman "Buzzy" Hettleman, author of It's the Classroom, Stupid: A Plan to Save America's Schoolchildren and a former Baltimore school board member.
January 27, 2010
For our first segment, Marc discusses recognition of same-sex marriage by Maryland.
Guests include:
January 26, 2010
January 26, 2010
For our first segment, Marc talks by phone with Thomas Schaller, a Baltimore Sun columnist and professor of Political Science at UMBC about tomorrow's State of the Union address.
January 25, 2010
January 25, 2010
Marc and co-host Anthony McCarthy tackle Baltimore crime with insight from Baltimore's religious leaders. The panel discusses what they are doing and what still needs to be done to better the lives of all city residents and reduce crime. Guests include:
January 21, 2010
For our second hour, we're joined by Dr. Andres Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Schools, to discuss the state of the school system, current issues and possible strategies in improving local education.
January 21, 2010
For our first hour, we're joined by a panel to discuss the new state budget proposed by Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley. How will budget cuts impact you? How will they affect our upcoming elections?
We are joined by phone by Senator David Brinkley, State Senator from District 4.
Tonight's in-studio panel included:
January 20, 2010
Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown will soon be U.S. Senator Scott Brown.
January 20, 2010
For the first hour of today's show, Marc is joined by guests to discuss the impact of the earthquake on an already impoverished nation, and where Haiti goes from here. The panel included:
January 19, 2010
January 19, 2010
We speak with Randolph Roth, author of American Homicide. He offers a historical perspective on violence in the United States, and an explanation of why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation in the world.
January 19, 2010
We speak with Randolph Roth, author of American Homicide. He offers a historical perspective on violence in the United States, and an explanation of why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation in the world.
January 19, 2010
We're joined in the studio by John Rich, author of Wrong Time, Wrong Place: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men. Also joining us is Roy M
January 15, 2010
We're joined by a panel of social activists and thinkers to reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Our guests are:
Mina Cheon - Interdisciplinary Professor at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
January 14, 2010
In Segment 3, Marc talks with Nargas Hyman, the founder of B-SPIRIT , a nonprofit mentoring and tutoring center in Park Heights. Nargas is the author of a children's book Grandma's Basement and three books of poetry: Let It Flow, Have Faith<
January 14, 2010
In the second segment, Marc focuses on the crisis in Haiti, two days after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake, the most severe in the country in more than 200 years.
Guests include:
January 14, 2010
In the first segment, Marc talks with Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
January 12, 2010
January 12, 2010
Today, Maryland's General Assembly convenes for the 427th legislative session in Annapolis. Marc interviews Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley before a live audience a few hours before the session officially opens.
January 12, 2010
For our second hour, we meet with Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III to discuss 2009 crime statistics and what they mean for Baltimore City. We'll also talk about the Commissioner's goals for 2010.
Donald Devore, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, joins the converstation to discuss juvenile justice in the second part of the hour.
January 12, 2010
In our first hour, we talk with Kevin Drum, political blogger for Mother Jones Magazine, about his special report in the January issue, "Capital City".
January 11, 2010
Americans are facing the hardest economic times since the Great Depression, and many are trying to keep jobless from leading to homeless. Marc and guest host Anthony McCarthy talk with Wells Fargo Client Relations Senior Vice President, Joe Ohayon and Robert Strupp, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Law Center about what recourse is available for those out of work.
January 11, 2010
State Senator Nancy Jacobs (34th district - Cecil and Harford Counties) and Senator Allan Kittleman (9th district, Carroll and Howard Counties) join Marc to talk about issues and concerns from a Republican point of view.
January 7, 2010
In the first half of Hour 2, Marc talks with Marion Elizabeth Rogers about her 2005 book, Mencken: The American Iconoclast, about the writer and critic known as the Baron of Baltimore. The interview was originally broadcast on December 12, 2005.
January 7, 2010
January 6, 2010
For the second hour of today's show, Marc was joined by guests to discuss the resignation of Mayor Sheila Dixon. Today's panel included:
January 6, 2010
For the first hour of today's show, Marc was joined by guests to discuss the resignation of Mayor Sheila Dixon. Today's panel included:
January 6, 2010
Mayor Sheila Dixon’s pending resignation is a real tragedy both politically and personally.
We don’t know the details of the bargain she made with the judge and the prosecutors, although that will all come out shortly. My guess is that there will not be another trial and that she will fight to keep her pension. I predict that she may run again in the future.
We don’t know the details of the bargain she made with the judge and the prosecutors, although that will all come out shortly. My guess is that there will not be another trial and that she will fight to keep her pension. I predict that she may run again in the future.
January 5, 2010
Congo doesn't seem to register on the radar of mainstream America media except in times of exceptional crisis, so many Americans don't know that the country is overwhelmed with violence on a day-to-day basis.
January 5, 2010
In light of the recent suicide bombing at a CIA camp in Afghanistan and the bombing attempt on a flight bound to Detroit International Airport on Christmas Day, it might seem that some re-evaluation of the United State's foreign policy is in order. In our first hour, Marc and panel discuss what is being done and what could be done to improve the international dialogue.
January 4, 2010
Marc and Anthony review the list of top national stories during the past year and highlight issues already making it to the forefront.
January 4, 2010
Marc and Anthony recap some of the big stories affecting Baltimore and our state. Guests Catalina Byrd, host of On Point on WOLB 1010AM; Lester Spence, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University; and Julie Bykowicz, Baltimore Sun government reporter, offer their perspectives on all the news that matters.
January 4, 2010
Marc talks with Aneesh Chopra, the first Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States (CTO), who previously served as the Secretary of Technology for Virginia. Marc and the CTO explore his ambitious goals for education, internet security and job creation.