Midday Podcast
1) Songwriters lift their voices in Maryland's quest for a new state song
Singer-songwriter Jayla Elise Diggs – who sang in a recent state senate committee hearing – and Banner columnist Rick Hutzell discuss Maryland's search for a new state song.
2) Council bills would curb Baltimore's proliferating smoke shop scene
WYPR health reporter Scott Maucione speaks with guest host Carla Hayden about efforts to limit the city's smoke shop businesses.
3) Assembly update: Will Maryland lawmakers approve redistricting?
WYPR State House reporter Sarah Petrowich joins guest host Carla Hayden with the latest on the vehement debate over Gov. Moore’s plan to redraw Maryland's congressional districts.
4) Planned ICE facility in western Maryland sparks lawsuits and health worries
Baltimore Banner criminal justice reporter Ben Conark talks with WYPR's Scott Maucione about efforts to block the opening of a DHS immigrant detention center near Williamsport.
5) How REACH Health Services helps Baltimore seniors recover from opioid addiction
Healthcare journalist Dan Gorenstein and REACH Health Services' medical director Dr. Malik Burnett discuss the unique treatment options for opioid-addicted seniors.
6) Rousuck's Review: 'Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms,' by puppeteers Alex & Olmsted
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms," a darkly satirical puppet show at Baltimore's Theatre Project.
7) SanFranOpera's Eun Sun Kim conducting two BSO concerts
Conductor Eun Sun Kim joins us to talk about her twin concerts this week, leading the BSO on “A Hero’s Journey” of music by Strauss and Schumann.
8) Everyman founder Vincent Lancisi reflects as he passes the torch
Vincent Lancisi launched Everyman Theatre in October 1990. He talks with Tom about why he’s retiring in June and the legacy he has built for theater arts in Baltimore.
9) New documentary captures the history of Baltimore's iconic Camden Yards ballpark
Josh Panepento and Trevor Gomes, students at UMd's Povich Center for Sports Journalism, discuss their new documentary about the history of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
10) Two years after Key Bridge fell, a look at rebuilding plans and the continuing human costs
WYPR reporter Wambui Kamau, who has covered the Key Bridge story, updates us on rebuilding plans and efforts to support families and communities hurt by the collapse.