Midday

It is Midday on Ethics, a series with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, the director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

We ask him about the decision behind organ transplants, which could mean life or death for patients with an array of illnesses.

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Today we continue our series of Conversations with the Candidates.

My guest is Del. Terri Hill, a Democrat, one of several members of the Maryland General Assembly. She is running for Congress in the 3rd Congressional District. The incumbent, John Sarbanes, will retire from the House of Representatives next January.

Terri Hill is a physician who grew up in Columbia, Maryland. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her medical degree from Columbia University in New York. She is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has practiced medicine in the Baltimore metropolitan area for more than 30 years.

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It's time for another visit with Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins us each week with her reviews of the Maryland, DC and Virginia regional stage.

Up next, Midday theater critic J Wynn Rousuck joins me with a review of the new show from Rapid Lemon Productions, The Book of Grace.

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On today's show, Tom discusses big stories of the week which include our week of snow and school closings in addition to the Baltimore Sun's new ownership.

Guests on today's program include:

• Meteorologist Justin Berk
• Nieman Journalism Lab founder Joshua Benton
• Baltimore Banner reporter Emily Sullivan

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Today, we continue our series of Conversations with the Candidates with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott. He is running in the Democratic primary and seeking a second term in the city’s top job. 

We ask him to addresses his record in office and his platform for Baltimore's future.

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On the latest installment in our series of Conversations with the Candidates, our guest is Bob Wallace, who is running to be the Mayor of Baltimore.

Mr. Wallace made his first bid for public office in 2020, when the former Republican ran for Mayor as an independent. He finished a distant second to Brandon Scott. This year, he’s running as a Democrat in the May 14th primary.

Bob Wallace is a businessman who founded three tech companies: an IT service provider called BITHGROUP Technologies, an energy services company called Bithenergy, and a training company for women and minority business owners called EntreTeach Learning Systems.

Mr. Wallace grew up in Cherry Hill. He graduated from Poly High School and went on to earn an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MBA from Dartmouth College.

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The Rev. Dr. Kevin Slayton, a longtime policy advocate and minister, has written a compelling new book about the intersection of politics and the pulpit. The book is titled Politically Preaching: Why Politics are Local to the Black Church.

Slayton chronicles the history of Black clergy vetting, promoting, encouraging or dismissing candidates for public office, and he turns an unstinting eye to those in the church who have not, in his view, done enough to apply the principles of Prophetic Social Engagement to the many ills that afflict the African American community in Baltimore and beyond.

Later in the conversation, Tom and Rev. Slayton are joined by longtime political mentor and professor Larry Gibson. He is the Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

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The Baltimore Sun was sold to David Smith, the Executive Chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting.

The conservative media conglomerate owns the Fox45 TV station in Baltimore, and more than 200 other stations across the country.

Melody Simmons, a Senior Reporter for the Baltimore Business Journal, joins us to discuss the news.

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In August of 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott, Dr. King addressed a gathering celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in Buffalo, NY.  His speech came to be known as his “Birth of a New Age” address. In it, he said,

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

Today, on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, Tom interviews people for whom every day is a day of service. Their deep seeded passions are centered, as Dr. King said, in the broader concerns of humanity.

Guests profiled today include:

• Matt Hanna, Executive Director of Next One Up

• Drs. Barbara Cook and Shakera Rahimi who assist Afghan refugee families

• Rev. Corey Barnes, Director of Operations for We Our Us

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Spoken word recording artist, actor, educator and composer Wordsmith has a new piece out, called Network to Freedom. It will see its world premiere Monday, Martin Luther King Day, at the B&O Railroad Museum with Wordsmith and his frequent collaborator, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

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