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We discuss the Maryland Dream Act, which would authorize in-state tuition benefits at local community colleges for qualifying children of undocumented immigrants.

Today on the Steiner show, we're featuring one of our Urbanite Radio Stories. Tonight we are talking electric cars with Jill Sorenson, Director of the Baltimore-Washington Electric Vehicle Initiative (BEVI); and Mahi Reddy, Founder and CEO OF SEMACONNECT.

She's an author, an actress, a comedienne and a director. Rain Pryor joins us for a conversation about her newest project, the play Well, currently showing at the Strand Theater. Well can be seen at the Strand Theater from June 1- 16, 2012.

Join us for an Urbanite Radio story about efforts to bring the sport of lacrosse back to inner-city Baltimore.

We're joined by:

Lloyd Carter, co-founder of Blax Lax

Join us for a conversation on Baltimore's film industry with filmmaker Matt Porterfield, whose critically acclaimed works Hamilton and Putty Hill have impacted Baltimore's reputation as a center for independent cinema.

Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah joins us to discuss the 50th anniversary season at Center Stage, and the burgeoning Baltimore theater scene.

Angela Smith Project Director of Center for a Livable Future's Baltimore Food and Faith Project, Kellie Vaughan-James from Ark Church and Christian Metzger from the Franciscan Cent

This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow organic vegetables on 5 acres. They also help run a training program for new farmers.

This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow organic vegetables on 5 acres. They also help run a training program for new farmers.

Food deserts, areas where residents do not have easy access to fresh, healthy, affordable food, are a problem in many places, from cities to rural areas. First we'll hear from Joyce Smith, Executive Director of Operation Reach Out Southwest.

Join us for an Urbanite Radio Story as we explore the place of empathy in daily life.  Martha Thomas takes a look at the subject in her article Walking in Someone Else's Shoes in this month's issue of Urbanite, and we're joined in the studio by two Baltimore resi

This hour we're joined by acclaimed poet Afaa Michael Weaver to discuss his work and unusual path in life, which has taken him from an East Baltimore childhood, to working in a Baltimore factory, to his current position as an English professor at Simmons College in New England, where he is a scholar of Chinese poetry.

Join us for a conversation on the labor movement with President of the United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard.  To read another interview with Leo Gerard, click here for the keynote in the January issue of Urbanite magazine.

Many Baltimore residents commute to DC for work, but would it benefit Baltimore to strive for a bigger slice of DC's recession-proof pie?  Should Baltimore lobby for more federal jobs to be located here?

De'Von Brown is known to many in Baltimore and around the world as one of the Baltimore children featured in the Boys of Baraka documentary.  After going through the ups and downs documented in the film, De'Von ended up at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he is studying to become a filmmaker himself.  De'Von is also worki

In today's increasingly globalized economy, money that you spend here in Baltimore can be halfway across the world in the blink of an eye.  Today we'll check in with the founders of the BNote, a currency just for local Baltimore businesses, more than six months after the notes went into circulation.

Journalist and Historian Catherine Tumber joins us to discuss her new book,

How can Red Line construction proceed without disrupting Baltimore communities?  This year's Urbanite Project hoped to answer that question by offering a $10,000 prize for the best community-oriented addition to construction sites.  The winner, London-based architect

Ahoy mateys!  Today on the show we bring you a tour of the USS Constellation, an 18th century sailing ship built right here in Maryland.  It's now a floating museum, docked in the Inner Harbor.  Chris Rowsom is Director of Historic Ships for Baltimore, and he took us aboard to talk about the ship's history, its con

If you live in Baltimore, you've seen groups of dirt bikers weaving through traffic, doing wheelies through the city streets.  While riding dirt bikes in the city has been outlawed, one youth advocate sees them as a vital way of reaching young people and channeling their energy into positive outlets.

We're joined by Shawna Murray, Deverick Murray, and Dayvon Love from Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle to discuss their ideas for reforming education and increasing community power in Baltimore.

For this Urbanite Radio Story we're joined by John Marsh, Assistant Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University  and author of the new book Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality.

If you live in Baltimore, you've seen groups of dirt bikers weaving through traffic, doing wheelies through the city streets.  While riding dirt bikes in the city has been outlawed, one youth advocate sees them as a vital way of reaching young people and channeling their energy into positive outlets.

As cleanup efforts continue in the Chesapeake Bay and Inner Harbor, we take a look at what is being done in Baltimore to minimize water pollution.  Our guests are Kimberly Burgess, Division Chief of the Baltimore Department of Public Works' Surface Managament Division and Bill Stack, Deputy Director of Programs for the Center for Watershed Protection.

Shawn Spence is a comedienne, writer, wife, and mother of five children.  She joins us this hour to discuss family, community, education, passing along values, and more.

On today's show, we're joined by a writer and a sociologist to discuss the new way that young people in America define family.   Ethan Watters is the author of  Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family? He argues that 20-somethings form friendships and networks that in many ways fill the roll that family did for earlier generations.

Join us for another Urbanite Radio Story, as two Baltimore artists join us to discuss what it means, both personally and politically, to be transgender.

Join us for an Urbanite Radio Story about the juvenile justice system.  Our panel takes on the question of whether youth who are charged with heinous crimes should be tried as adults.  Joining us are:

Laura Furr, Senior Director of Youth Justice Initiatives at Community Law in Action

Join us for an Urbanite Radio Stories.  This month, Michelle Gienow's article "By Their Compost Heaps Ye Shall Know Them" takes a look at some of Baltimore's urban homesteaders, who work towards creating a self-sufficient life in the city.  We went to talk to