On The Record

<p>Art has the power to inspire us … can it also be an agent of social change? <strong>Randi Pupkin</strong>, founder and executive director of Art with a Heart, believes it can. One of the nonprofit’s programs, the Art of Leadership, brings together diverse high school students to learn about empathy and creative problem-solving---giving them first-hand experiences with Baltimore’s successes and challenges:</p> <p><em>“It’s really young people who are our future, and we have to expose them to networks of people and social issues, so that they can learn together and become a cohesive community together, to create change together.</em></p> <p>Plus, we meet a former student of “Art of Leadership” to hear how it has made a difference in his life.</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://www.artwithaheart.net/">Art with a Heart</a>, <a href="https://www.artwithaheart.net/whatwedo/aol/">Art of Leadership application</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>The COVID pandemic did not end the HIV-AIDS epidemic; it may have obscured it for a while, raising hurdles to getting tested for HIV. This virus pummels the Black community: Among people newly infected with HIV in 2019, African-Americans showed up at three times their share of U.S. population.Ahead of Black HIV-AIDS Awareness Day next week, we talk to <strong>Dr. Sarah Schmalzle</strong>, medical director of the <a href="https://www.umms.org/midtown/locations/thrive-program">THRIVE program</a> at the<a href="https://www.ihv.org/"> Institute of Human Virology </a>at the University of Maryland Medical School. THRIVE is a medical practice for people with HIV and other conditions. And we hear from <strong>Eric Anderson, </strong>a <a href="https://www.greaterthan.org/ryan-white/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuvOPBhDXARIsAKzLQ8G1VItLRWeC53DMM4vwd2NHmYQcUrDwna2qEXTybr8p1Kw0w6zM2n4aAlJNEALw_wcB">Ryan White</a> eligibility specialist at THRIVE. THRIVE is located at the UMMC Midtown Outpatient Tower.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Here’s a Stoop Story from <strong>Ta’Von </strong><strong>Vinson </strong>about turning his HIV diagnosis into a calling. A note - this story talks about thoughts of suicide.<em> </em></p> <p>Find more Stoop Stories <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/">here</a>, and check out upcoming <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/shows/">live events</a>. </p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Advocates are renewing a push in Annapolis to amend Maryland’s constitution so that it would guarantee a right to a healthful environment--and a right to sue over threats to the environment.<strong>Staci Hartwell,</strong> climate-justice chair for the <a href="https://www.naacpmaryland.org/">NAACP Maryland State Conference</a>, says it’s about racial justice. <strong><a href="https://mdehr.org/personal-stories-about-protecting-clean-air-and-water/">Monica Brooks </a></strong>tells how an amendment might have boosted citizen efforts in Wicomico County to block a high-intensity animal feeding facility. And <strong>Shashawnda Campbell </strong>of the <a href="https://www.sbclt.org/">South Baltimore Community Land Trust</a> recounts the health impacts of multiple pollution sources.</p> <p>Learn more about the <a href="https://mdehr.org/">Maryland Campaign for Environmental Human Rights</a>. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV1n63VBBAU">2022 Maryland Environmental Summit</a>, hosted by the <a href="https://www.mdlcv.org/">Maryland League of Conservation Voters</a> and Citizens Campaign for the Environment.</p> <p>Then, WYPR’s <strong><a href="https://www.wypr.org/people/joel-mccord">Joel McCord</a>, </strong>on what else lawmakers are looking at for the environment.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>110,000 Marylanders have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. More than twice that many care for them. And both numbers are growing. In June last year, the FDA approved the first new drug in 17 years to treat Alzheimer’s. University of Maryland neurologist <strong>Dr. Paul Fishman </strong>says sophisticated new scans can detect in the brains of more people the abnormal proteins that mark Alzheimer’s. Plus, typically used for Parkinson’s disease, deep brain stimulation uses sound pulses to stop tremors. How could this technology treat Alzheimer’s? Watch the full Alzheimer’s Foundation of America conference for Maryland - from November - <a href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/afa-maryland-virtual/register?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=profile_web&utm_campaign=profile">here</a>. <em>Original air date: November 16, 2021.</em></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Stroke can be debilitating. Many survivors live with reduced mobility even after long, intensive therapy.  <strong>Dr. John Krakauer</strong> is chief medical advisor at MindMaze, a digital neuro-therapeutics company that harnesses the brain’s natural ability to heal. He hopes to improve the odds for patients in rehabilitation:</p> <p><em>“What we’re trying to do is to create something complimentary. Which is much more intense, much more high dose. And it is not focused on activities of daily living or pragmatic functioning. It’s focused on your actual core capacities in an attempt to rewire your nervous system.”</em><em> </em></p> <p>And we talk with occupational therapist <strong>Sandra Deluzio,</strong> who uses the gaming software with her patients … who mimic the fluid movement of dolphins as they play their way to recovery.</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://www.mindmaze.com/about/">MindMaze</a>, <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/research/labs/kata_studio/">JHU KATA project</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Long-distance love can be a challenge. Long-distance love across continents -- well that’s another story. A story told through eight hundred and seventy four letters that singer, composer and writer <strong>Alexandra Palting</strong> is turning into a musical -- with the apt title: eight hundred seventy four. </p> <p>It’s the story, the <em>love </em>story, of her Filipino immigrant grandparents. But Palting also found herself in a bi-coastal relationship.  She says the letters that offered lessons and comfort for her grandmother decades ago … now did the same for her:</p> <p><strong>"</strong><em>Long distance taught us to be alone and yet to know that you’re loved. And to be left and know that you are still lovable."</em></p> <p>Links: <a href="https://baltimoreapac.org/0874-a-new-musical">RSVP for 0874</a>, <a href="https://baltimoreapac.org/">Asian Pasifika Arts Collective</a>,  <a href="http://www.alexandramariapalting.com">Alexandra Palting</a> </p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Here's a <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/">Stoop Story</a> from <strong>Robbin Lee </strong>about family heritage, family grudges and the power of forgiveness. </p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Today: our monthly installment of Pass the Mic, when we invite a host to choose the guests and direct the narrative. </p> <p>Journalist <strong>Lisa Snowden-McCray</strong> talks to <strong>Kelly Davis</strong>, wife of Keith Davis Jr., who has been jailed since 2015 on murder charges. Four trials have produced two hung juries and two convictions that were overturned. Kelly talks about why education is key to her unrelenting advocacy … and what keeps her going:</p> <p><em>“My children, Keith’s innocence. Every day, every single day he is living with his innocence. And he deserves the life that he was already on track to living.”</em></p> <p>Plus photographer <strong>SHAN Wallace</strong> and artist, cultural organizer and executive director of AFRO Charities <strong>Savannah Wood</strong>, talk about how they use their work preserving Baltimore’s Black history and culture as their tool for activism.</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://keithdavisjr.com/">The Story of Keith Davis Jr.</a>, <a href="http://shanwallace.work/">SHAN Wallace,</a> <a href="https://www.afrocharities.org/">AFRO Charities</a>, <a href="https://www.savannahwood.info/about">Savannah Wood,  </a><a href="https://twitter.com/LisaMcCray?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Lisa Snowden-McCray</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Half a century after the 13th Amendment ended slavery, people who had been slaveholders continued to serve in Congress.Washington Post reporter<strong> Julie Weil</strong> describes her research into the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/?itid=hp_most-read_5">more than 1700 Congressmen who were enslavers at some point in their lives</a>. Check out the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/01/12/questions-congress-enslaved-database/">WaPo Q&A </a>about this research.</p> <p>One of those members of Congress was Charles Carroll of Carrollton. We hear from curator <strong>Michelle Fitzgerald</strong> and scholar <strong>Jasmine Blanks Jones</strong> about an effort to honor the Black people held in bondage by the Carroll family at their Homewood Estate in Baltimore, on which Johns Hopkins University sits today. Read about the <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/01/21/ritual-of-remembrance-enslaved-at-homewood/">Ritual of Remembrance</a>. Learn more about the <a href="https://blogs.library.jhu.edu/2021/02/black-history-month-at-homewood-meet-william-ross/">Ross family</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Covering politics for decades for NPR, <strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/people/1930401/mara-liasson">Mara Liasson</a></strong> juggles the clues that signal what voters are thinking: polling about who approves and disapproves of the job President Biden is doing, factors that worry them, like Covid surges and soaring inflation, and patterns of past rejections of the party in power. But Liasson says now she sees more caustic polarization than she ever has--sharpened, in her view, by former President Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, and the choice of many elected Republicans to agree, without evidence: "We don't even have a common set of facts now. And that’s really scary to me." Liasson will be in Baltimore a week from today for the <a href="https://baltimorespeakers.org/">Baltimore Speakers Series presented</a> by Stevenson University.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Nearly 40 million Americans suffer from migraine attacks. They’ve been viewed as a ‘middle-aged white woman’s malady,’ but research shows otherwise.</p> <p><strong>Dr. Courtney White </strong>talks about racial disparities in treatment and why the syndrome is misunderstood:</p> <p>“People think it’s just a bad headache and that you can tough through it -- take some over the counter medications. And this is not true, this is a neurological disease.” </p> <p>Then <strong>Jaime Sanders</strong>, who has coped with daily migraine pain for forty years, tells why she pushes for better access to care, and talks about her advocacy goals:</p> <p> “To make sure that everyone is seen and heard and validated and respected. I’ve gone through so much of my life being dismissed, and I know how that feels not being believed.”</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://headachemigraine.org/">Coalition for Headache and Migraine Patients</a>, the <a href="https://headachemigraine.org/dihac/">Disparities in Headache Advisory Council,</a> The Migraine Diva blog.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Bundle up! The Natural History Society of Maryland is gearing up for outdoor expeditions this weekend.</p> <p><strong>Professor Vanessa Beauchamp</strong> leads a tree identification tour at Towson University’s Glen Arboretum and says you’ll be surprised by what a simple twig can reveal.</p> <p>Plus, Naturalist <strong>Kerry Wixted</strong> says a winter hike along the Patuxent River holds lots of surprises. Growing up, she thought she’d need to travel to faraway places to experience the glory of nature, but now she finds it in her own backyard.</p> <p><em>“So what I like to do is share those wonders of nature and wildlife with others, and teach people how to see all the cool stuff that we have here in Maryland.”</em></p> <p>Links: <a href="https://www.marylandnature.org/get-involved/events/event/towson-glen-winter-tree-identification/">NHSM Tree Identification hike</a>, NHSM <a href="https://www.marylandnature.org/get-involved/events/event/winter-hike-1-9-patuxent-river-park/">Winter Hike at Patuxent River Park</a>, <a href="https://www.towson.edu/campus/landmarks/glen/">Glen Arboretum</a>, <a href="https://www.marylandnature.org/get-involved/events/event/towson-glen-winter-tree-identification/">Natural History Society of Maryland</a>, <a href="https://winterberrywildlife.ouroneacrefarm.com/2020/04/28/beaver-scent-marking-and-population-density/">Beaver Scent Marking info</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Here's a Stoop story by Christina Porter about life lessons she learned as a Lyft driver. You can hear more stories at <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/">Stoopstorytelling.com</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Millions of borrowers took advantage of the pandemic’s pause on federal student-loan repayment, put in place by the CARES Act two years ago and extended by President Biden until May 1st. What happens when that pause ends? <strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/danielle-douglas/">Danielle Douglas-Gabriel</a></strong> covers the economics of higher education for <em>The Washington Post</em>. She warns that the return to repayment may be bumpy. And <strong>Sean McEvoy</strong>, <a href="http://www.labor.maryland.gov/finance/consumers/frslombud.shtml">Maryland’s student loan ombudsman</a>, outlines the <a href="http://www.labor.maryland.gov/finance/consumers/frslbillofrights.shtml">rights borrowers are entitled to</a> and offers advice on spotting student-loan forgiveness scams. Find the PSLF Help Tool <a href="https://studentaid.gov/pslf/">here</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Since the huge voter turnout in 2020, many states are making it harder to vote: Dozens of new laws restrict who can vote; and how, when and where they can do it.</p> <p>University of Baltimore law professor <strong><a href="http://www.gildadaniels.com/">Gilda Daniels</a>, </strong>author of <em><a href="https://www.theivybookshop.com/book/9781479862351">Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America</a>,</em><strong> </strong>says she’s not surprised. </p> <p><em>“It is consistent with history. Which is that we have these cycles of progress, and they are met with these almost violent attempts of regression in regards to the right to vote.” </em></p> <p>The odds are slim the Senate will pass the proposals it’s debating to set national standards for elections. But Maryland Congressman <a href="https://sarbanes.house.gov/"><strong>John Sarbanes</strong></a>, sponsor of a bill at the center of the fight, says he still hopes the debate will impel a couple colleagues to move to his side. </p> <p>Links: Brennan Center for Justice <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-december-2021">Voting Laws Roundup</a>, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2747">Bill H.R. 1 Freedom to Vote,</a> <a href="https://elections.maryland.gov/voter_registration/index.html">Maryland Voter Registration.</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>When millions of African Americans moved from the rural south to northern cities, exclusionary zoning and restrictive covenants worked to constrain their space. Over time, these practices evolved into lending discrimination and then into urban renewal projects that displaced Black communities.</p> <p>Georgetown law professor <strong>Sheryll Cashin </strong>argues that geography is central to the American residential caste system, "The biggest myth in this country is that high opportunity living is earned and that ‘hood’ living is the deserved result of bad individual choices. It’s government systemic practices that created this landscape, that frankly, we’re all ensnared in."</p> <p>Cashin’s latest book <em>White Space, Black Hood</em>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>This morning, we mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday by speaking with local leaders who have taken extraordinary steps during the pandemic to support their neighbors.<strong>Bishop Antonio Palmer</strong> heads the nondenominational <a href="https://www.kingdomcelebrationcenter.com/">Kingdom Celebration Center</a> in Anne Arundel County. From food distribution to child care, he talks about answering the community’s call for aid. Find information about the 34th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award Dinner <a href="https://mlkjrmd.org/">here</a>.And in West Baltimore,<strong> Van Brooks</strong> leads <a href="https://www.safealternative.org/">SAFE</a>, a youth center that offers classes on woodshop, beekeeping and more. Brooks says varied experiences lead to expansion, "How can a person strive for something if they don’t know it exists?"</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>The Covid-19 omicron variant has thrown the US into another wave of confusion -- how to mask, when and how to test, when to isolate. </p> <p><strong>Dr. Zachary Berger</strong>, a physician at Johns Hopkins and Catholic Charities ‘Esperanza Health Services Clinic,’ shares his thoughts about the current surge in infections … and also ways he see the pandemic further exposing inequities in access to health care:</p> <p> <em>“Be better, behave better, wear masks better, be more careful. Sure, I’m a doctor and I tell people to be careful. But I also tell people to recognize when things are larger than them and we should organize to make those things better.” </em></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Here's a Stoop Story from the founder and president of <a href="https://www.heartsmilesmd.com/">Heart Smiles</a>, <strong><a href="https://www.joniholifield.com/">Joni Holifield</a> </strong>about punching above your weight class, and winning.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>On Monday about one third of Baltimore City Public Schools switched to virtual learning due to spikes in positive covid tests -- to the surprise of many parents across the city.</p> <p><strong>Dr. Sonja Santelises</strong>, CEO of the Schools District, walks us through what factored into the last-minute decision … and where things are headed. </p> <p>And Baltimore Teachers Union president <strong>Diamonté </strong><strong>Brown </strong>tells us what her constituents have been experiencing this week … and her hope for working more collaboratively with leaders of the schools district as the pandemic stretches on.</p> <p><strong><em>“</em></strong><em>The shift was very abrupt and communicated late and people would like to see transition plans built in for the future so that doesn’t happen again.” </em></p> <p>Links: Thurs Jan. 13 6:30pm Covid-19 response <a href="https://www.pcabbaltimore.org/events/11321-district-covid-response-session">virtual meeting</a> with school parents and community advisory board, <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/bcpss/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C4ELWW55E94D">agenda </a>for that virtual meeting, Baltimore Teachers Union <a href="https://www.baltimoreteachers.org/high-filtration-mask-drive/">mask drive</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>A year ago tomorrow the U.S. House voted to impeach then-President Trump, alleging he had incited insurrection at the Capitol a week earlier, and Maryland Congressman <strong>Jamie Raskin </strong>was immersed in organizing and leading the legal arguments for conviction.It was the hardest thing he’d ever done professionally, Raskin writes in his memoir, "Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy," but gave him a way to pour his radical faith in democracy into mourning his son Tommy, lost to suicide just two weeks before.The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. The Crisis Text Line is a texting service for emotional crisis support. To speak with a trained listener, text HELLO to 741741.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>The General Assembly convenes tomorrow, amid a surge in COVID infections. <em><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/">Baltimore Sun</a> </em>state politics reporter<strong> <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-pamela-wood-20141007-staff.html">Pamela Wood</a> </strong>and <em><a href="https://www.marylandmatters.org/">Maryland Matters</a> </em>editor <strong><a href="https://www.marylandmatters.org/author/danielle-e-gaines/">Danielle Gaines</a></strong> join us to preview issues lawmakers are expected to tackle.Crime is at the fore. While <a href="https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2022-01-10/hogan-announces-crime-package">Gov. Hogan pushes a $500-million-dollar increase for law enforcement</a>, Gaines says Democrats think funds would be better spent another way, "The general response was that police agencies haven’t seen their funding cut, so it’s kind of a non-issue. But Democratic lawmakers do want to see funding directed in other ways: to community programs, violence intervention programs. "We tee up topics from tougher sentences for gun crimes to climate change and protecting tenants. Listen to Midday's General Assembly preview <a href="https://www.wypr.org/show/midday/2022-01-10/the-maryland-general-assembly-a-preview-of-the-2022-session">here</a>. Check out WYPR's politics coverage <a href="https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news">here</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Genius is about more than being smart. Journalist and historian <strong>Walter Isaacson</strong> has written biographies of geniuses from Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs … to Nobel Prize-winning  biochemist Jennifer Doudna. Isaacson, who’ll be speaking in Baltimore tomorrow, says he’s learned genius is more about <em>curiosity</em> … and the creativity that surrounds you. He says some cities are <em>cradles </em>of creativity, and Baltimore might be one. He plans to talk about those lessons:</p> <p><strong> </strong><em>“Here is how they became creative and here is how we can make ourselves think in more creative ways.” </em></p> <p>Links: <a href="https://baltimorespeakers.org/">Baltimore Speakers Series information</a></p> <p> </p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>We typically offer our listeners a Stoop Story each <em>Friday </em>-- We’re diverging from that pattern … to offer you one today. And it’s a perfect fit because this tale comes from a recent Stoop show called: <em>“Didn’t see that coming! Stories about shocks, surprises and real life plot twists!”</em> Here’s a Stoop Story from <strong>Mark Gunnery</strong> about words spoken to him by a stranger that no one ever wants to  hear …</p> <p>The first Stoop Storytelling event of 2022 is coming up this month! For this event The Stoop is partnering with our sister station W-T-M-D and Ottobar to present an evening of tales from some of the wild, and wildly talented, folks who have created Baltimore’s music scene, past and present.</p> <p>It’s hosted by The Stoop’s Jessica Henkin and WTMD’s Sam Sessa, at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27 … at the Ottobar, 2549 North Howard Street. Tickets <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/event/for-us-by-us-stories-about-the-baltimore-music-scene/">here</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>A year ago, Trump supporters--galvanized by lies about election fraud--breached the U.S. Capitol, attacking police and threatening lawmakers.Johns Hopkins professor<strong> Lilliana Mason</strong> says deepening polarization between political parties paves the way for the acceptance of violence.And we ask <strong>Michael Jensen</strong> of the <a href="https://start.umd.edu/">National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland</a>: What does it take to prevent radicalization?</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p><strong><a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/profiles/cchavis2">Professor Charles Chavis Jr.</a> </strong>has invested five years probing the lynching of a young Black man in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore 90 years ago--what 23-year-old Matthew Williams meant to his family and community, the leaders of the supposedly spontaneous mob, how the white power structure covered up the crime -- and what it all means today.Chavis’s book, <em><a href="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/silent-shore">The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State</a>, </em>will be out next week. And with <strong><a href="https://www.cruefilms.co/">Samson and Katrina Binutu</a></strong>, he’s producing a film about the crime, <em><a href="https://hiddeninfullviewseries.com/">Hidden in Full View</a>.</em></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Baltimore’s <a href="http://www.lauralippman.net/"><strong>Laura Lippman</strong></a> has been publishing tales of suspense, and winning awards for them, for a quarter century. She doesn’t take for granted the devious characters and puckered plots that shape her stories.</p> <p><strong>"</strong><em>I keep trying to make this harder on myself. I think the scariest thing for me would be to sit at my computer and think: ‘This is easy, I know how to do this.’ I want to be kind of terrified.” </em></p> <p>We readers are kind of terrified, too, as we make our way through the twelve short stories in Lippman’s latest offering, a collection titled <em>Seasonal Work. </em>Healthy walks in Leakin Park. Common-wall brick houses on the west edge of town. Such common places, such ordinary things. And so many murders.</p> <p>Links: Thurs. Jan 6: <a href="https://www.theivybookshop.com/upcomingevent/28432">Laura Lippman: Seasonal Work Virtual Launch And 25 Years In Publishing Celebration </a>(In Conversation With John Searles) hosted by Ivy Bookshop and Poetry and Prose, A Likely Story event on (info to come).</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Since he was a kid, Conor McDowell had wanted to defend his country. He was proud to be a Marine, but the risks started to worry him. In 2019, his father, <strong>Michael McDowell, </strong>and mother,<strong> Susan Flanigan, </strong>got the awful news their only son had been killed: the light armored vehicle he commanded rolled over, crushing him. The investigation the McDowells pushed for counted hundreds of similar accidents in the last decade, many-preventable. We talk to the McDowells, and to Maryland Congressman <strong>Anthony Brown</strong>, about changes that could save lives. Read about the <a href="https://www.gao.gov/blog/why-do-so-many-military-vehicles-crash-outside-combat%2C-and-what-military-doing-about-it">GAO report on military vehicle deaths</a>.<em>Original air date: October 25, 2021.</em></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Here is a <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/">Stoop Story</a> from <strong>Michelle Becote-Jackson </strong>about how her grandmother kept the Christmas spirit alive, even in tough times.The next live Stoop event comes up in two weeks--January 13th at the Ottobar in Baltimore. The theme is “<a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/event/for-us-by-us-stories-about-the-baltimore-music-scene/">Something for Everyone: Stories about the Baltimore Music Scene</a>.”</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Two decades ago, just a few months shy of high school graduation, <strong>Sherise Holden</strong> learned she was pregnant. Today, she leads a nonprofit called <a href="https://she-rises.org/trial/">SheRises</a>, that connects teen moms to resources and mentors. Holden says this work is valuable, "I can help so many other young mothers rise, just by giving them a word of encouragement and giving them sort of like a sneak peek to the other wise of the window, like, you know what, your life isn’t over. There’s so many things that you can do, there're so many ways that you can accomplish goals."We hear about love and perseverance from <strong>Sherise </strong>and her daughter, <strong>Autumn</strong>. Find out how to get involved <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SheRisesInc/">here</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>A <a href="https://www.climatecentral.org/news/harriet-tubman-sites-at-risk">report by the nonprofit Climate Central </a>maps the risk of flooding along the <a href="https://harriettubmanbyway.org/">Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway</a> in Dorchester County.We speak with one of the <a href="https://www.climatecentral.org/uploads/media/Climate_Central_Future_Flood_Risk_Report_Harriet_Tubman_Byway.pdf">report’s </a>authors, <strong>Kelly Van Baalen</strong>, and local guide <strong>Alex Green, </strong>who operates <a href="https://www.harriettubmantours.com/">Harriet Tubman Tours</a>.Then, <strong>Julie Schablitsky</strong>, chief archaeologist at the state Department of Transportation, describes <a href="https://news.mdot.maryland.gov/archaeology-team-led-by-mdot-sha-discovers-homesite-of-harriet-tubmans-father/">discovering the site where Tubman’s father lived</a>. Schablitsky says the location is under siege, "If we step away overnight and come back the next morning, we have an inundated hole. That level of water is rising up into excavation units, stopping us from being able to recover scientifically this information." Listen to more about Ben Ross' home-site in this <a href="https://www.wypr.org/show/midday/2021-05-06/the-ben-ross-harriet-tubman-cabin-mdots-julie-schablitsky-on-the-historic-find-ongoing-dig">Midday interview</a>.<em>Original air date: November 4, 2021.</em></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>George Washington was not destined to be great. He was the middle son of a middling Virginia family; he had land but seldom much cash. As a young militia leader, he did not win often.What he had, writes<strong> <a href="https://davidostewart.com/">David O. Stewart</a> </strong>in an astute biography, was ambition and the will to study the political skills of listening and compromise.Late in life, Washington focused on the horrors of slavery--yet never spoke against it publicly during eight years as America’s first president.Stewart will be talking about the book in a virtual event with the National Archives on February 8 at 1 p.m. His most <em>recent </em>book is historical fiction--the first of a planned trilogy about German settlers in Maine in the 1750’s. It’s called <em>The New Land.</em><em>Original air date: September 8, 2021.</em></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p><strong>Thomas Hochla </strong>shares a Stoop Story about how his family sings in the new year. Listen to more Stoop Stories and check out the Stoop podcast <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/">here</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Can’t decide what to watch?<em>Baltimore</em> <em>Magazine </em>editor-in-chief <strong>Max Weiss</strong> gives us the low-down on the top films of 2021. From a documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival to a Japanese drama about grief and connection, we hear about can’t-miss movies. Find a write-up of Weiss' top 15 films <a href="https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/i-lost-it-on-my-macbook-my-favorite-films-of-2021/">here</a>. Find her individual movie and television reviews <a href="https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/author/MaxWeiss">here</a>. </p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>You are what you eat … so when you eat healthy, you become healthy. That’s the message from a new program called FoodRx at Medstar Health. We talk with <strong>Angela Roberson</strong> (ROBE-ur-son) a registered dietician for the Collaborative Care Program at Good Samaritan Hospital, and the lead dietician for FoodRx. Giving patients access to nutrition education as well as full meals has made a marked difference in her work.</p> <p><strong>Roberson BB CLIP: </strong><em>“It’s really been a game changer. FoodRx is really the first of its kind in this region, and it’s saving lives.”</em></p> <p>Plus, we hear from <strong>Nekeisia Booyer,</strong> Senior vice president of programs at the Maryland Food Bank,one of FoodRx’s partners, about why teaming up with healthcare systems to regularly deliver healthy food to patients is all part of its mission.</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://www.medstarhealth.org/news-and-publications/news/medstar-health-partners-to-create-food-rx-program-at-medstar-good-samaritan">FoodRx</a>, <a href="https://mdfoodbank.org/">Maryland Food Bank</a>, <a href="https://hungryharvest.net/">Hungry Harvest</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Pumpkin spice latte, roasting turkey, butter-drenched stuffing ... Holiday smells conjure memories. But for people experiencing side effects of Covid-19, a sense of smell can suddenly be non-existent, or even repulsive.</p> <p><strong>Dr. Danielle Reed</strong> of the ‘Monell Chemical Senses Center’ describes how smell works, why it affects taste and what can go awry.</p> <p>Then we meet <strong>Kim Minton</strong> and <strong>Cristen Scifo</strong>. They’ve been coping with loss or distortion of smell and taste for more than a year. Its effects can be frustrating, depressing and confounding. Cristen says:</p> <p><em>“The cravings for food don’t go away. I crave Chinese food like once or twice a week. Can I have it? No absolutely not. Because I take one smell of it, and it’s repulsive. And that’s something I used to love.”</em></p> <p>Original airdate: 11.22.21</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://monell.org/">Monell Chemical Senses Center</a>, <a href="https://monell.org/anosmia-recipes/">Anosmia recipes</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjfR44szh4o">AJ+ video describing loss of smell.</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Persuasion is what <strong>Andres Lares </strong>does all day. Actually, <em>most </em>of us spend a big part of our day trying to persuade people to see things our way--but Lares and his colleagues do it full time, in an organized way, at the Shapiro Negotiations Institute. So three of them wrote a book called <em>Persuade</em>, that compresses the skill into four steps. Most people base choices on trust and emotions, Lares says--but you still have to present a logical case for what you’re proposing. </p> <p><strong></strong> <em>“Because over time the process of which we made a decision and the decision itself both impact how we feel about it. So it isn’t just where we got to but also how we got there, and so logic plays a big role in that.”</em><strong>  </strong></p> <p><em>Original airdate: 10.4.21</em></p> <p>LInks: <a href="https://www.shapironegotiations.com/">Shapiro Negotiations Institute</a>, <a href="https://www.theivybookshop.com/book/9781613397718">Persuade book</a>.</p> <p> </p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>As the omicron variant threatens more pandemic restrictions, we Pass the Mic to <a href="https://dutchcouragebar.com/">Dutch Courage </a>co-owner and <a href="https://www.bmorebarguild.com/">Baltimore Bartenders’ Guild</a> president <strong>Brendan Dorr. </strong>He talks with <strong>Ashley Mac</strong>, from <a href="https://www.iheardyou.org/">HEARD</a>, a mental-health resource for restaurant and bar staff, <strong>Ezra Allen</strong>, co-founder of  <a href="https://www.canecollective.com/">Cane Collective</a>, and <strong>Lara Sumerson</strong> co-owner of <a href="https://thebackyardbaltimore.com/">The Back Yard Restaurant </a>and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MulberrysHM">Mulberry’s Bar</a>, about how the industry has managed … and what they’re concerned for in the future: Here’s Lara:</p> <p><em>“My only fear is that some people might not survive another hit but I do believe that we have proven that we will support each other through it and we will support our communities as safely as we can.”</em><em> </em></p> <p>Plus their holiday beverage offerings--spirited and spirit-free!</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://www.bmorebarguild.com/">Baltimore Bartenders' Guild</a>, <a href="https://dutchcouragebar.com/">Dutch Courage</a>, <a href="https://www.canecollective.com/">CAnE Collective</a>, <a href="https://thebackyardbaltimore.com/">The Back Yard Restaurant,</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MulberrysHM">Mulberry's Bar</a>, <a href="https://www.nihaobaltimore.com/">Nihao</a>, <a href="https://www.iheardyou.org/">HEARD</a>, <a href="https://www.bmorerestaurantrelief.org/">Baltimore Restaurant Relief Group.</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>When<strong> André De Shields </strong>won a Tony award for creating the agile, elegant messenger-god Hermes in the Broadway musical <em>Hadestown, </em>he said he was making good on a decades-old promise to be a native son Baltimore could be proud of. De Shields was born 75 years ago into a large family, to a mother who yearned to be a dancer and a father who would have loved to be a singer.He graduated from Baltimore City College before striking out for fame and genius onstage - what he felt was destiny. We hear what mountains he plans to climb next. Check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwDFDDr_VA">"Hadestown" NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert</a>. Watch his Tony Award acceptance speech <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHypsjlx1bI">here</a>. <em>Original air date: November 23, 2021.</em></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Ten months ago, <strong>Dr. Ruth Faden</strong>, Johns Hopkins bioethicist and advisor to the World Health Organization on Covid 19 vaccination, said the global rollout of vaccines was failing. We checked in with her again -- she says there is still a lot of work to be done:</p> <p><strong></strong><strong><em> </em></strong><em>“</em><em>So the challenge now is shifting. There is enough global vaccine supply, but we still have high income countries capturing the market and we still have big distribution problems.”</em></p> <p>Plus, what is life like on the ground in Afghanistan? <strong>Sean Callahan, </strong>C-E-O of Catholic Relief Services, back from a recent trip there, sees a humanitarian and economic crisis that’s getting worse.<br>Links: <a href="https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax">Covax</a>, <a href="https://www.crs.org/">Catholic Relief Services</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Sometimes music can take you to places only reachable by your imagination. Singer and musician <strong>Jonathan Gilmore</strong> wants to be your guide for an intergalactic trip:</p> <p>‘The Jonathan Gilmore Project’s A Journey to Funktopia’ is part theater, part concert and full of original funk, soul and R&B music -- with a simple message:</p> <p><em> “I hope they feel so comfortable in their skin that they can be their whole beautifully human self. If they can just take the message that we’re gonna give, and just truly spread it around. It sounds so cliche, you know that song you know ‘put a little love in your heart and the world will be a better place?’ I believe it.”</em></p> <p>Links: <a href="https://jonathangilmoremusic.com/">Jonathan Gilmore Project</a>, <a href="https://www.creativealliance.org/events/2021/jonathan-gilmore-project-presents-journey-funktopia">Journey to Funktopia tickets</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Here's a Stoop Story from <a href="https://www.stsci.edu/">Space Telescope Science Institute</a> astronomer, <strong>Nora Lutzgendorf</strong>  about her work on the <a href="https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html">James Webb Space Telescope</a>. The J-W-S-T is scheduled to <a href="https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/events.html">launch Friday, Dec. 24</a>, -- just missing the Winter Solstice.</p> <p>But <em>you </em>don’t have to miss it! There are lots of ways coming up to proclaim--even celebrate- the solstice: </p> <p>Ensemble Galilei with guests James Oxley and Ronn Mcfarlane will perform their Winter Solstice concert <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/245775920951435/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D">Tuesday, Dec. 21 at 2 p.m. at An die Musik</a> in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood.</p> <p>Also on Tuesday, you can celebrate the <a href="https://feedback.facebook.com/events/590094268768666/">Winter Solstice in Wyman Park Dell</a> from 7 to 9 PM. The event features live music from Jim Eagan & Friends, warm drinks and sweet treats from Gertrude's.</p> <p><a href="https://towsonchurch.org/events/the-longest-night-2021/">‘The Longest night,’</a> a worship experience to acknowledge the heartache and pain some experience during the holidays, will take place at Towson United Methodist Church on Tuesday at 7 p.m.</p> <p>Also that evening, Tuesday, December 21, from 5 to 7 p.m, Health Care for the Homeless will host <a href="https://www.hchmd.org/events/homeless-persons-memorial-day-baltimore-city?fbclid=IwAR3zWtj4tWOPrervRnynJjDqqh1eGV93xBhyyZXSzNMho23qGOZ6RGMArxQ">A Night of Remembrance and Reflection</a> for neighbors without homes who have died in the past year. That will be in person at McKeldin Square, at Light and East Pratt Streets in Baltimore, as well as online.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>COVID testing slacked over the summer. At-home COVID tests are costly and hard to find.We speak about the continued need for testing with <strong>Stephen Thomas, </strong>director of the<a href="https://sph.umd.edu/research-impact/research-centers/maryland-center-health-equity"> Maryland Center for Health Equity</a> in the University of Maryland School of Public Health, and <strong>Dr. Adena Greenbaum, </strong>assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Clinical Services for the <a href="https://health.baltimorecity.gov/">Baltimore City Health Department</a>.</p> <p>Learn more about the HAIR campaign - <a href="https://sph.umd.edu/hair">Health Advocates In-Reach and Research</a>.</p> <p>Then, <strong><a href="https://www.igs.umaryland.edu/resources/grc/ljt.php">Luke Tallon</a></strong>, of <a href="https://marylandgenomics.com/">UMaryland Genomics </a>at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, describes how variant COVID strains are analyzed. He says testing is integral, “Encouraging broader testing would have a very positive impact not just on understanding these variants of concern but on understanding community spread."</p> <p>Learn more about UMSOM's genomic sequencing work <a href="https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/news/2021/UM-School-of-Medicine-Helps-Maryland-Conduct-State-Wide-Sequencing-of-Variants-in-Positive-COVID-19-Test-Specimens.html">here</a>.</p> <p>Resources:<a href="https://coronavirus.baltimorecity.gov/where-get-tested-covid-19-baltimore-city">Testing sites in Baltimore City</a></p> <p><a href="https://coronavirus.baltimorecity.gov/covid-19-vaccine-information/weekly-schedule-vaccination-clinics">COVID Vaccination Clinics in Baltimore City</a></p> <p><a href="https://covidlink.maryland.gov/content/vaccine/#prereg">Find a vaccination clinic near you</a></p> <p><a href="https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/pages/symptoms-testing">Find a testing site near you</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>The call to “Save the Bay” has galvanized <strong>Will Baker</strong> most of his life. As he wraps up four decades at the helm of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, he points to what’s improved and what hasn’t, Pennsylvania’s foot-dragging on the bay clean-up--and the late governor William Donald Schaefer’s wistful assessment that he had thought it would be easier to Save the Bay:</p> <p><em>“Our elected officials have all thought that it would be easier and they have failed to follow the science and realize the fundamental changes that need to occur to save one of the nation’s greatest national resources, the Chesapeake.”  </em></p> <p>Plus <em>Bay Journal</em> environmental reporter <strong><a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/users/profile/tim%20w/">Tim Wheeler</a> </strong>explains ‘forever chemicals’ and why they’re in our water.</p> <p>Links: <a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/forever-chemicals-frequently-found-in-maryland-pennsylvania-drinking-water/article_783a8f0c-1707-11ec-ba7f-9f5e631d39c4.html">Forever chemicals in MD and PA drinking water</a>, <a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/news/fisheries/forever-chemicals-trigger-first-fish-consumption-warning-in-chesapeake-region/article_fdf33986-30e9-11ec-a7eb-e39541d38936.html">Forever chemicals and fish consumption warning</a>, <a href="https://www.bayjournal.com/news/fisheries/forever-chemicals-from-navy-lab-flowing-into-chesapeake-bay/article_2bb30198-041d-11ec-8d03-7fbdc38a88a7.html">Contamination at Naval Research Laboratory, </a><a href="https://extension.umd.edu/resource/water-testing">Have your water tested</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>It’s documented that using social media -- the scrolling, the likes, the shares -- is addictive and seductive. If that’s its effect on adults, what about young kids?<strong>Dr. Drew Pate</strong>, chief of psychiatry at LifeBridge Health, talks about the different ways social media influences the minds and moods of children.Then <strong>Danny LaBrecque</strong>, creator of ‘Danny Joe's Tree House’ and ‘Cookies for Breakfast,’ says he’s wary of platforms that have plans to aim content at pre-teens. But he believes the control of a medium has more to do with education and intent than rules and regulations, “Whether it’s a stick, or a stone, or a smartphone, there are all these tools. We decide how to use these tools, not the other way around.”<em>Original air date: October 21, 2021.</em>Links: <a href="https://dannyjoestreehouse.com/">Danny Joe's Tree House</a>, <a href="http://dannyjoestreehouse.com/#for-grownups">Cookies for Breakfast</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>After the deadly shooting of a West Baltimore 9th grader in 1983, police and prosecutors coerced the testimony of witnesses. Three innocent young men - known as the Harlem Park Three - were sentenced to life in prison for felony murder. Then, in 2019, they were released.</p> <p><strong>Jennifer Gonnerman</strong> writes about this case for<em> The New Yorker,</em> in a piece titled, “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/when-a-witness-recants">When a Witness Recants</a>.”</p> <p>And Baltimore City Deputy State's Attorney<strong> Lauren Lipscomb </strong>describes building the case for exoneration. Watch a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/baltimorecitysao/videos/1781483938706954">video</a> about the case, produced by the State's Attorney's Office. Find more information about the <a href="https://www.stattorney.org/office/bureaus-units/conviction-integrity-unit">Conviction Integrity Unit</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Feeling a sense of safety doesn’t encompass just <em>physical </em>security. To feel secure in one’s community also means being accepted, welcomed and seen.</p> <p>The Jewish Museum of Maryland’s new exhibit, ‘A Fence Around The Torah: Safety And Unsafety In Jewish Life,’ asks visitors to consider how their own safety might make someone else feel vulnerable or dismissed. </p> <p>We get a preview from artist and curator-in-residence <strong>Liora Ostroff</strong> and from<strong> </strong>the Jewish Museum’s  executive director<strong> Sol Davis:</strong></p> <p><em>“Our aim is that it will inspire conversations that will go deeper into the various layers of safety in Jewish American life today.”</em><strong> </strong></p> <p>Links: <a href="https://jewishmuseummd.org/exhibits-events/">Jewish Museum of Maryland</a></p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Here's a Stoop Story from <strong>Jennifer Mendelsohn</strong> about finding family against all odds. </p> <p>Links: <a href="https://stoopstorytelling.com/event/return-to-the-stoop-jennifer-mendelsohn/">Return to the Stoop</a>, where you can hear more about Jennifer's story about finding her mother-in-law, Frieda Pertman's, relatives, a short<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_14_kGjuSEE"> video about Frieda Pertman.</a></p> <p> </p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>

<p>Almost two years into the pandemic, the threat of eviction and homelessness looms large for financially insecure families.</p> <p>Although Baltimore got millions in federal funds to forestall evictions, <strong>Karen Wabeke</strong> of the <a href="http://www.hprplaw.org/">Homeless Persons Representation Project</a> says her group is seeing more and more landlords refuse to take part, "We, along with partners in the <a href="https://bmorerentersunited.org/">Baltimore Renters United</a> coalition, have advocated for the city to begin making direct to tenant payments. We have had clients who were evicted because their landlords refused the funding."</p> <p>Find information about emergency rental assistance across Maryland <a href="https://www.bmorechildren.com/residents">here</a>. Get information about rental and security deposit assistance in Baltimore City <a href="https://www.bmorechildren.com/residents">here</a>.</p> <p>Then we ask<strong> Irene Agustin</strong>,<strong> </strong>who's been heading the <a href="https://homeless.baltimorecity.gov/">Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services</a> for six months, about preparing for the cold, and her priorities to make homelessness rare and brief. Find information about the 2020 Point-in-Time Count <a href="https://homeless.baltimorecity.gov/hmis/read-2020-point-time-count">here</a>. Learn how to volunteer for January's count <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baltimore-city-homelessness-point-in-time-count-volunteer-registration-tickets-215710244147">here</a>.</p><p>Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers [email protected] 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his [email protected] 410-235-1472</p>