Midday

Host Tom Hall had some parting reflections as he brought today's final edition of Midday to a close.

City Council President Zeke Cohen joins host Tom Hall on this final edition of Midday to talk about some key city issues, including a ban on data centers, proliferating smoke shops and a welcome hike in salaries for city employees.

Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott joins Tom in Studio A for their final edition of 'Midday with the Mayor,' their monthly conversations about key issues facing City Hall and the people of Baltimore.

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, in her last Midday review, spotlights Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike, the final production of retiring Everyman Theatre founder, Vincent Lancisi.

Kim Wehle, University of Baltimore Law professor and constitutional expert, joins Tom to analyze today's arguments at the Supreme Court over President Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship.

The Maryland Film Festival opens next Wednesday, April 8 and continues through Sunday, April 12. It’s returning to the spring after an experimental move to the fall last year.

Jed Dietz founded the festival and directed it for nearly two decades. Now KJ Mohr directs the festival, as well as  programming at the SNF Parkway Theatre. They joined Midday to discuss what's ahead.

Their conversation was pre-empted on air by NPR special coverage of oral argument before the Supreme Court, but you can listen here at WYPR.org.

Baltimore Public Media’s Program Director, Maxie Jackson, joins Tom to discuss Midday’s cancellation on April 2nd, and new programs to come at WYPR.

Sharon Mashihi, the daughter of Jewish Iranian immigrants to the US, talks with Tom about exploring the diaspora’s conflicted wartime emotions — in her podcast and in her own life.

Aaron David Miller, Mideast policy analyst and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, joins Tom to discuss what an end to the US-Israeli war on Iran might look like.

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.