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Midday

WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore

Monday-Friday from noon-1:00, Tom Hall and his guests are talking about what"s on your mind, and what matters most to Marylander"s, the latest news, local and national politics, education and the environment, popular culture and the arts, sports and science, race and religion, movies and medicine. We welcome your questions and comments. E-mail us at midday@wypr.org

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23:00

How would Project 2025 impact political appointees...

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2024/08/09

ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis recently wrote about Paul Dans, the former director of Project 2025 which was created to help build the next Republican administration. Dans has Baltimore roots as the son of a Johns Hopkins professor. According to MacGillis, by the time Dans stepped down from his role with Project 2025, much of the work was in place to develop a large database of Trump loyal appointees to put in federal jobs. MacGillis joins Midday to discuss more about Paul Dans and the details

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48:44

Phoenix Recovery Academy focuses on students & sobriety

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2024/08/08

The Phoenix Recovery Academy in Frederick is the only high school in Maryland dedicated to supporting and educating teenagers who are battling substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders. The academy is a part of a network of about 45 Recovery Schools across the country, which strive to maintain high quality educational environments while encouraging student recovery. The school opened in 2020 and this year, the school celebrated a graduating class of six students. Tom speaks with an

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23:56

Healthwatch with Dr. Leana Wen: COVID summer wave,...

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2024/08/07

On Midday Healthwatch, our monthly conversations about public health with Dr. Leana Wen, we ask about the uptick in COVID-19 cases in Maryland and across the country. Should we be avoiding gatherings of people inside? Is it time to return to the precautious behavior from earlier in the pandemic? Plus, how to manage hypertension, the ‘silent killer’ disease, which can be exacerbated by exposure to extreme heat. Wen is one of America’s most trusted and knowledgeable public health experts, and she has

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24:50

Roxane Gay's got a gun: black feminism and gun ownership

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2024/08/07

The power to take a life, professor and social commentator Roxane Gay writes, receives greater constitutional and culture value than a women's right to the pursuit of happiness. Gay is the author of the New York Times best-selling books Bad Feminist and Hunger. Her latest work includes the essay Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminists Reckoning with America's Gun Problem. From the firearms invention in more than 500 hundred years ago, to the writing of the 2nd Amendment in 1787, to America's current

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11:20

Mayor Brandon Scott responds to DPW employee's death

Midday ·

2024/08/06

Mayor Brandon Scott speaks to Midday about the recent death of DPW employee Ronald Silver II.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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22:54

Julia Marciari-Alexander says goodbye to the Walters...

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2024/08/06

Host Tom Hall speaks with Dr. Julia Marciari-Alexander, who for the past eleven years has been the Executive Director and CEO of the Walters Art Museum. Walters Art Museum named two interim co-directors to replace Marciari-Alexander as the organization seeks a new leader. Marciari-Alexander announced she is set to leave next month to take a new position as the President of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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25:50

Mayor Scott on drop in city's gun violence, and the...

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2024/08/06

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joins Midday to discuss his policy plans for the city's biggest challenges. We ask Scott about decreases in violent crime and car thefts. What is working, according to the mayor, and where is there room for improvement? Plus, are city agencies doing enough to prepare and train city workers? On Friday afternoon, solid waste worker Ronald Silver II was finishing his collection route when he collapsed and then later died. According to reporting from WYPR's Emily

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48:43

We ask Baltimore's top cop about homicide drop and...

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2024/08/05

Baltimore City Police Commissioner Richard Worley joins Midday to discuss historic lows in homicide, violence reduction and the ongoing federal consent decree. Over the weekend, the Baltimore Peace Movement held its quarterly Peace Promise weekend. While Baltimore is seeing an uptick in murders, a tragic annual occurrence during the warmer summer months, homicides are at decade lows. The first half of 2024 saw 89 killings, the second-fewest since 1970, and a more than 50% decline from two years ago

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11:25

Rousuck's Review: 'Grand Horizons' at CCBC Essex

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2024/08/05

Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Midday to share another weekly review of a local theatrical production. Rousuck takes a look at Grand Horizons, presented by Cockpit in Court at Community College of Baltimore County Essex through August 4. The dynamics of one family are central to the play, and the story is part domestic comedy, part domestic drama. (Photo by Trent Haines-Hopper)Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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37:20

Midday at the Movies: Summertime is for blockbusters!

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2024/08/05

Today is Midday at the Movies, our monthly focus on new films and film-industry trends with movie aficionados Jed Dietz, founding director of the Maryland Film Festival, and Max Weiss, film critic and Editor-in-Chief of Baltimore Magazine. This week we talk summer films, including Twisters and Longlegs. What are your favorite movies of the summer?Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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24:30

'The Deceived Ones' reinterprets a Shakespearian...

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2024/08/01

Judith Krummeck's The Deceived Ones reinterprets the classic Twelfth Night in a contemporary Baltimore setting. Her new novel chronicles the journey of twins, Vira and Sevastyan, a brother and sister from Ukraine who escape their war-torn homeland and come to Charm City. Vira is a talented musician, who becomes begins working on a new opera at the Peabody Institute in the Mount Vernon neighborhood. Inspired by Shakespeare, Krummeck weaves a fun and poignant tale, replete with mistaken identities,

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24:02

'Slow Time' is a love letter to a historic Baltimore...

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2024/08/01

Slow Time is Antje Rauwerda's debut novel. The Goucher College professor set her story in Govans, the northeast Baltimore neighborhood she calls come. The setting comes alive in Rauwerda's story, and is as vibrantly described as the characters who live there. At the outset of the story, the book’s protagonists, Danny and Em, know each other only in passing. As their connection deepens, we learn about their pasts, what they have lost and how they have coped with those losses. (This episode originally

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3:20

Head to WTMD’s First Thursday Festival, or risk FOMO.

Midday ·

2024/07/31

WTMD’s First Thursday Festival returns tomorrow. The homegrown affair takes place every summer at the Canton Waterfront Park and features artists from Maryland. Tyler LaPorte, afternoon host and WTMD Interim Program Director, joins Midday to discuss the the upcoming event and what visitors can expect. (Photos by Cary Evan/CE Imagery and David LaMason.)Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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45:22

A panel on bikes and transit in Baltimore. How do you...

Midday ·

2024/07/31

In September, a new pilot program is set to help 50 Baltimore City residents, chosen by lottery, receive vouchers ranging from $750 to $2,000 to subsidize the cost of an electric bike. Nearly a quarter of Baltimore households do not have access to a car, but many people just don’t feel safe riding bikes in a city that is way behind in its effort to create a network of bike lanes that are protected from vehicular traffic. Will the introduction of 50 new electric bikes begin to shift the paradigm for

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24:44

How will Project 2025 impact the lives of the poor?

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2024/07/31

Tom explores the Presidential Transition Project known as “Project 2025.” His guest is Anne Kim a lawyer, policy expert, journalist and author of the new book, Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor. Additionally, Kim is a contributing editor to Washington Monthly where she recently published Project 2025 is Even Worse Than You Think where she examines the impact the proposed plans will have on lower economic and poor families.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us:

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24:01

Innovations in organ retrieval pose ethical questions

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2024/07/31

Tom talks about a controversial practice being employed to harvest organs for transplant from people who have died called Normothermic Regional Perfusion, or NRP. According to reporting by NPR's Rob Stein, this technique is considered an innovation which produces high quality and less damaged organs for those in need. This innovation is not, however, without ethical concerns. Dr. Jeffrey Kahn is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. The Institute produces a

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24:54

Dr. Ronald Williams seeks to support up-and-coming...

Midday ·

2024/07/29

Today on Midday, a conversation about two workforce development programs in Baltimore. One surveys the landscape of programs for young entrepreneurs, while the other targets under-employed residents who face barriers to employment. Those obstacles can include a criminal record, a substance abuse disorder or no housing. Dr. Ronald Williams is an associate professor of management at Coppin State University and the founding director of Coppin’s Center for Strategic Entrepreneurship. The program works

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23:46

Walter Billups and NCIA helps those struggling to...

Midday ·

2024/07/29

Today on Midday, a conversation about two workforce development programs in Baltimore. One surveys the landscape of programs for young entrepreneurs, while the other targets under-employed residents who face barriers to employment. Those obstacles can include a criminal record, a substance abuse disorder or no housing. Walter Billips, Executive Director of Vocational Training Center at the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives joins Midday. His nonprofit is dedicated to assisting people

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26:10

Midday News Wrap: Netanyahu's speech to Congress

Midday ·

2024/07/26

Many Democrats chose to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen spoked to Midday earlier this week about his decision to skip the address. Opposition was strong on the street outside the U.S. Capitol building. Large protests at Union Station in Washington on Wednesday included the burning of Israeli and American flags. Yesterday, Netanyahu met with President Joe Biden, who invited families of American

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22:29

Hilton Carter wants to know what you are growing in...

Midday ·

2024/07/26

Baltimore plant aficionado Hilton Carter is the host of Planterior on Discovery Plus and Max, a new pilot of a program about making the most of plant life and interior design. Carter joins Midday to discuss the new program, and his thoughts on Summer planting.Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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