Midday

Last Monday, Gov. Wes Moore, Senate President Bill Ferguson, and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joined the developer David Bramble to announce preliminary designs for a reboot of Harbor Place.

Melody Simmons covers development for the Baltimore Business Journal. She joins Midday to discuss the plans for Harborplace.

Then, Pamela Woodof The Baltimore Banner joins Midday to share her reporting on the retirement announcement from Congressman John Sarbanes which follows Senator Ben Cardin’s decision to retire at the end of his term.

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Today is Midday at the Movies, our monthly focus on new films and film-industry trends, with our regular movie aficionados, Jed Dietz, founding director of the Maryland Film Festival, and Ann Hornaday, film critic for the Washington Post.

We will discuss Martin Scorsese's latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon. We also discuss Lady Bird Diaries, a stunning documentary intimately capturing the life of the First Lady during the consequential years (1963-1969) of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.

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For this month's edition of Midday with the Mayor, Tom speaks with Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott about juvenile offenders, Safe Streets funding and plans for redeveloping Harborplace. 

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Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman joins the show. When Mr. Pittman was elected in 2018, he was a newcomer to elective office. He is in his second term, and he will not be eligible to run for a third term in 2026 due to term limits in the County charter.

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Howard County Executive Calvin Ball joins us today. He is in his second and final term.

In his state of the County address last week, County Executive Ball talked about affordable housing, flood mitigation, workforce development, and other initiatives

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Today on Midday, a conversation with two prominent public officials about the Child Interrogation Law.

In 2022, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law intended to protect children from coercive tactics and pressure from police and prosecutors during questioning about crimes. 

The Child Interrogation Protection Act was vetoed by then Governor Larry Hogan. The legislature overrode that veto, and the law went into effect in October of 2022. 

The law says that children have an unwaivable right to counsel before being questioned, and that parents must be notified once a minor is taken into custody. There is an exception that allows police to ask children limited questions before contacting parents if there is an immediate threat to public safety.

Police and States’ Attorneys from several jurisdictions have complained that the law ties the hands of police, and that it may lead to a lack of accountability for young people who commit crimes.

Midday begins with State Senator Jill Carter, who represents district 41 in Baltimore City. She was the lead sponsor of the bill. On the second half of the show, we hear from Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, who opposes the law.

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Our guest Jill Lepore is a writer with an amazing gift for drawing connections between the historical and the contemporary. She connects dots like no other observer, and in this terrific and wide-ranging compendium, she weaves a beautiful tapestry of the personal and public, the quirky and the quotidian.

She’s a professor of history at Harvard and next summer, she will take on a concurrent appointment as a professor at the Harvard Law School. She’s been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 2005, and she’s the author of more than a dozen books, including the international best seller, These Truths: A History of the United States.

Her latest offering The Deadline, is a collection of 46 essays, all but three of which have appeared in the New Yorker over the past decade.

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Today in the Midday Newswrap, Tom speaks with WYPR Reporter Wambui Kamau about the Baltimore County Council and an initiative to address mass incarceration in Maryland.

Afterwards, Tom talks with New York Times Congressional Reporter Luke Broadwater about the election of the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

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Tom speaks with Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. about current concerns in the county including youth safety, transportation funds and plans for enhancing accountability.

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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Funny Girl" at the Hippodrome Theatre. The show is a sweet comedy about a young girl who dreams of life on the Broadway stage. “Funny Girl” continues at the Hippodrome through Sunday, October 29.

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