May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 - Segment 5 - We look at this week's issue of the City Paper with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. This week's City Paper features an article about the Real News Network, with an interview with Marc.
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May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 - Segment 4 - We talk with Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Ralph Jaffe, a public and private school Social Studies teacher who now has his own policy institute.
May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 - Segment 2 - We look at the tragic killing rampage last week in California by 22-year old Elliot Rodger. The latest reports indicate that he acted in part out of an intense frustration over rejection by women. We discuss male entitlement, misogyny and violence against women.
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 - Segment 2 - With the Maryland primaries less than a month away, Democratic Candidate for Governor Lt. Governor Anthony Brown joins me in-studio to tell you about his vision for the state and answer your questions.
May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 - Segment 2 - We listen to tape from a special evening Marc hosted with Eddie Conway last week at Red Emma's. Eddie Conway is a former Black Panther who was released from prison earlier this year after being incarcerated for 44 years. He discusses his time in prison, his work with young men inside and outside prison, and Friend of a Friend, a mentoring project he started with American Friends Service Committee. We also hear from Green Bay, one of the young men Eddie mentored who is part of Friend of a Friend.
May 23, 2014
May 22, 2014 - Segment 4 - We're joined by Maryland State Senator Brian Frosh, who represents District 16, to talk to us about his campaign to become the next Attorney General of Maryland.
May 23, 2014
May 22, 2014 - Segment 2 - We have an update on the RAD (Rental Assistance Demonstration) program to privatize public housing in Baltimore, and residents' fight to challenge it.
May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 - Segment 2 - Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts joins us to answer listener questions and discuss a range of topics including curfews, changes to the Baltimore Police Department, and the recent death of a teenager who had been struck by a police Taser multiple times.
May 21, 2014
May 20, 2014 - Segment 2 - We are joined by one of Maryland's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates and her Lieutenant Governor running mate: Delegate Heather Mizeur, who represents District 20 in the Maryland House of Delegates, and is a candidate for Governor of Maryland; and the Rev. Delman Coates, Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Maryland, and candidate for Maryland Lieutenant Governor.
May 19, 2014
May 16, 2014 - Segment 3 - We close out our show at 10:30 with another important event that's happening today and Saturday, May 16 and 17, in Baltimore, the 2014 Baltimore Economic Development Conference with organizers and panelists of the conference.
May 19, 2014
May 16, 2014 - Segment 2 - We have a special audio offering, as we end our week-long series in conjunction with students from the Post-industrial Places Project (PIPP) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC): Stories of Deindustrialized Baltimore.
May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 - Segment 4 - We look at the recent Baltimore City Council vote in favor of the new Curfew Law
May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to the latest episode in our week-long series produced by students from the Post-industrial Places Project (PIPP) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC): Stories of Deindustrialized Baltimore. Thursday's installment is titled "What Went Wrong."
May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 - Segment 6 - We check in with UNITE HERE and the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Workers. We're joined by Tracy Lingo, an organizer with UNITE HERE Local 7 in Baltimore, Kevin Wheeler, a former BWI worker who was laid off from Creative Food Group, and Betty Schuler, who works for HMS Host at BWI.
May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 - Segment 2 - It's the latest episode in our week-long series produced by students from the Post-industrial Places Project (PIPP) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC): Stories of Deindustrialized Baltimore. We hear the moving stories of individuals who were affected most deeply by deindustrialization, in their own voices.
May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 - Segment 3 - We host a local and state news roundtable. Our panel discusses last week's Democratic gubernatorial debate; the tax on plastic shopping bags; and Carroll County's decision on prayer in county meetings.
May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - We have the premier episode of a very special series produced by students from the Post-industrial Places Project (PIPP) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC): Stories of Deindustrialized Baltimore. This insightful series offers a fresh look at the boom and bust of the industrial communities of Baybrook and the Sparrows Point Steel Mill in Baltimore.
May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 - Segment 3 - We bring you the deeply emotional and inspiring story of the five Gilchrest brothers, four of whom were actively involved with the War but who had never discussed it among themselves before our interview. Listen in as former congressman Wayne Gilchrest and his four brothers - Jeffrey, Alan, Richard, and Clifford - reflect on how they were affected by the war and how their views of the world evolved in the years hence.
May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites we start with a conversation about the poor working conditions in America's restaurant industry and take a kayak trip through the Delmarva peninsula.
May 1, 2014
April 29, 2014 - Segment 3 - We begin our newest edition of Sound Bites with a look at how much water it actually takes to raise and slaughter a chicken. Then, we explore why American apples were just banned in Europe and hear about the Bay Bridge ospreys that made headline news this week.
April 30, 2014
April 29, 2014 - Segment 2 - The shooting last week of 17-year-old youth leader Michael Mayfield made local headlines, followed by the shooting of a 14-year-old which made the 7th teen killed in Baltimore so far this year. We start our show this morning discussing youth violence and talking about what we can do and what the city should be doing to properly address this issue.
April 28, 2014
April 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - We continue our coverage of Baltimore City's plan to privatize public housing. We hear from public housing residents and activists: Jessica Lewis, housing organizer at the Right to Housing Alliance; Mitch Peterson from the Chase House; Sharon Jones from the Bel Park Tower; and Gary Stroud from Bernard E. Mason Apartments.
April 26, 2014
April 25, 2014 - Segment 5 - Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author whose new book is called The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. He and his father, Paul Coates, joined us to discuss the complexities of coming of age and raising a family in black, urban America. Their real-life story takes place in Baltimore, but could translate easily to many cities around the United States.
April 25, 2014
April 25, 2014 - Segment 4 - Lt. Col. Melvin Russell and Lt. Craig Hartman of the Baltimore Police Department join us to talk about an uptick in auto thefts in Baltimore and what people can do to protect themselves.
April 24, 2014
April 23, 2014 - Segment 4 - We close out the show with This Week in City Paper with City Paper Senior Editor Baynard Woods.
April 24, 2014
April 23, 2014 - Segment 2 - As Maryland's primary elections are fast approaching in June, we will be talking to candidates and offering you the opportunity to ask questions. Today we will talk with Gubernatorial Candidate Attorney General Doug Gansler and his Lieutenant Governor Candidate Delegate Jolene Ivey.
April 18, 2014
April 18, 2014 - Hour 2 - The Other Wes Moore is the tale of two boys with the same name growing up at the same time in Baltimore. One is serving a life sentence for murder. The other took a dramatically different path, and he speaks with us today about what he found when he explored these two similar yet divergent lives.
April 18, 2014
April 18, 2014 - Hour 1 - We travel back to 2010 to a show featuring leaders from Baltimore's African American and Latino communities. In recent weeks on the Marc Steiner Show and Anthony McCarthy Show we have noted that many of the tensions that we explored in this conversation are still present between the communities.
April 18, 2014
April 17, 2014 - Segment 3 - We take a look at programs for formerly incarcerated individuals, both from BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development) and from the City.
April 17, 2014
April 16, 2014 - Segment 3 - This week Governor O'Malley signed two bills passed by the legislature, one which decriminalized marijuana possession and the other which makes Maryland a full-fledged medical marijuana state. We look more closely at the two bills, and predict where the marijuana issue is going during the next legislative session.
April 14, 2014
April 14, 2014 - Segment 3 - We discuss the state of the labor movement in Maryland and beyond. We are talking with labor activists and workers involved in a number of struggles, including individuals who work at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, former Sparrows Point employees, and a person who is organizing community college employees.
April 14, 2014
April 14, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk to Johns Hopkins Hospital workers on strike about what they are fighting for and their conditions working at a world-class institution. We also hear a sound from the picket line recorded Friday outside of Johns Hopkins where we talk to workers and supporters.
April 4, 2014
April 3, 2014 - Segment 2 - We look at The New Black, which documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage. Then, Edward Wyckoff Williams gives us a national perspective on the issues raised in the film.
April 1, 2014
March 28, 2014 - Segment 2 - We continue our discussion on the privatization of public housing in Baltimore, in particular the Rental Assistance Distribution (RAD) program which is a program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with Carol B. Payne, Baltimore Field Office Director for HUD.
March 27, 2014
March 27, 2014 - Segment 2 - We continue our coverage on housing in Baltimore City with a roundtable on vacant houses in East Baltimore.
March 27, 2014
March 26, 2014 - Segment 2 - We turn to a debate over "Ban the Box" Legislation currently pending in Baltimore City. The legislation's goal is to help ex-offenders find work, but opponents fear it will drive jobs from the city.
March 25, 2014
March 24, 2014 - Segment 3 - We continue our coverage of the privatization of public housing in Baltimore. We begin this discussion with an update on the Rental Assistance Demonstration program and talk to residents and union workers inside of these buildings about how this will impact them.
March 25, 2014
March 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - We talk with The Daily Record's Government Reporter Bryan Sears, who gives us a Maryland General Assembly Legislative Update as the session nears its end.
March 25, 2014
March 21, 2014 - Segment 4 - We move closer to home, to talk about a new mentoring program at Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the Greater Chesapeake (BBBSGC). Our guests will be:Terry Hickey, CEO of BBBSGC; and Dr. Eric Rosser, Vice President of Service Delivery at BBBSGC.
March 20, 2014
March 20, 2014 - Segment 3 - We look at Live Young Blood, a compelling and edgy documentary that travels deep into Baltimore's urban communities that are wrestling with ways to transform a culture of violence. We talk with filmmakers Bobby Marvin Holmes and Justin Gladden, as well as Kimberly Armstrong, who lost her son to the streets and who is featured in the film.
March 19, 2014
March 19, 2014 - Segment 5 - We talk to Baynard Woods, Senior Editor of the City Paper, about this week's issue, which includes features about MICA's adjunct faculty moving to unionize and more.
March 19, 2014
March 19, 2014 - Segment 2 - We begin with a conversation with members of Tyrone West's family. Tyrone West died while in police custody in July 2013. We're joined by Tawanda Jones, Tyrone's sister; George Peoples, Tyrone's uncle; Jamie Richardson, Tyrone's cousin; and Diana Butler, Tyrone's aunt.
March 19, 2014
March 18, 2014 - Segment 3 - On a new episode of Sound Bites, we discuss GMO labeling in Maryland, local environmental news, the defeat of the "black liquor" bill, and learn about how pesticides affect the brain.
March 16, 2014
March 14, 2014 - Segment 2 - In our continuing coverage of the privatization of public housing in Baltimore, we talk to Floyd Vines, resident of the J. Van Story Branch Senior Building in Station North, and Jeff Singer, housing activist and Founder and former Executive Director of Health Care for the Homeless.
March 13, 2014
March 13, 2014 - Segment 3 - We turn to the topic of Education, as we hear from students who have written poems to protest the Maryland School Assessment, or MSA, tests. Then, we take a look at the 2012 Chicago Teachers' Strike, with Micah Uetricht, author of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity.
March 13, 2014
March 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - We turn to the Maryland Legislature and look at a bill that would make it a crime to post sexually explicit images on the Internet without the subject's consent. The bill, known as the "revenge porn" bill, passed unanimously through the Maryland House of Delegates and is moving forward to the Senate.
March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites, we begin with Joel Salatin, full-time alternative farmer in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Then, we visit Baltimore's Liam Flynn's Ale House to talk about Open Plough and their new food menu. We close out the show with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back.
March 11, 2014
March 11, 2014 - Segment 2 - We look at the future of public housing in Baltimore, including reactions to our Monday show with Housing Commissioner Paul Graziano.
March 10, 2014
March 10, 2014 - Segment 3 - Baltimore City Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano joins me in-studio to discuss privatization of 40% of the public housing units in Baltimore, and the future of public housing in our city.
March 10, 2014
March 10, 2014 - Segment 2 - We begin the week with an interview with author, professor and criminologist David Kennedy, who developed the Operation Ceasefire group violence intervention in the 1990s.