Sheilah Kast

Baltimore

Host, On The Record at WYPR-FM (Baltimore, MD)

Host of @On the Record morning interview show on @WYPR 88.1 FM, Baltimore. Wrote 'Dracula Is Dead' with my husband, Jim Rosapepe.

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Racial disparities, police bias in audit of former Medical Examiner files: Now what?

1 week ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

An audit of a decade-and-a-half of rulings by Maryland medical examiners on the causes of deaths of people restrained while in custody found a pattern that could be racial or pro-police bias. We ask state Attorney General Anthony Brown: What now? If you want to contact the OAG regarding this issue, call 833-282-0961 or email Links: Maryland Office of the Attorney General, Office of Chief Medical Examiner audit of restraint related death investigations, Lawsuits against the Trump Administration.
Assassin? Egomaniac? Center Stage asks: Who was John Wilkes Booth?

2 weeks ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

It’s been 160 years and a few weeks since a heartthrob-handsome, 26-year-old actor slipped into the presidential box at Ford’s Theater and fired a bullet into the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head. Why should we still be talking about John Wilkes Booth? Why, especially, in Maryland, where Booth grew up?
Stories from the Stoop: What it means to serve

2 weeks ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

Here's a Stoop Story from Dario DiBattista about the continuing journey of his military service. You can hear more stories, find out about live events and the stoop podcast at stoopstorytelling.com . On The Record WYPR ProgramsOn the RecordStoop Storytelling
What will happen to Marylanders on Medicaid?

2 weeks ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

Medicaid covers a million and a half Marylanders -- half of Maryland’s children, 40 percent of its births, 80 percent of nursing-home charges in the state. Mental-health and substance-abuse care for 325,000 people. The state health department says thousands of those Marylanders may lose coverage if the federal government follows through on plans to tighten who’s eligible for Medicaid and how they prove it.
Author R. Eric Thomas embraces life's ups and downs with humor and candor

3 weeks ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Maureen Harvie

R. Eric Thomaswrites wry, perceptive essays about things that seem more amusing in his life than they do in yours. He grew up in West Baltimore -- but moving back after more than a decade away triggered stress and latent depression -- as well as some very funny episodes. We speak about his new book, "Congratulations, the Best is Over!"Asking Eric, a new syndicated advice column, is now in papers nationwide. You can send questions to On The Record WYPR ProgramsOn the Record
Civic Works' 'Baltimore Shines' makes futures brighter

1 month ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

Customers are paying a lot for electricity these days. Some are thinking how great it would be to take advantage of solar energy floating free from the sky. But would solar even work for their home? And what would it cost to install -- how long before they’d see any savings? For 170 families in the city of Baltimore, there’s good news in a program called “Baltimore Shines,” organized by the non-profit Civic Works. People with low and moderate incomes can have solar installed and connected free.
Looking into inequities of Maryland's incarceration rates

1 month ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

Ten years ago, when police chased Freddie Gray on the streets of Sandtown and arrested him, more people from his neighborhood were in state custody than from any other census tract in Maryland. That, according to data analyzed by the Justice Policy Institute and the Prison Policy Initiative. Their latest count shows things have changed only slightly: The Justice Policy Institute’s most recent data show Sandtown-Winchester and nearby Harlem Park rank no.
Maryland's strategy against opioid overdose

1 month ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

If you loved one of the 1,549 people who died in Maryland of an overdose in the past twelve months -- if you’re a brother, a parent, a daughter, a friend -- it may be small comfort that that number is 30 percent lower than the year before and has been trending downward since 2021. It’s still too high. Emily Keller, Maryland’s ‘Special Secretary of Overdose Response, is charged with leading Maryland’s fight against overdose deaths.
Intersection of Change in Sandtown-Winchester: Stay engaged now more than ever

1 month ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

The violence and uprising after Freddie Gray died in police custody ten years ago shook Baltimore to its core. We ask executive director Todd Marcus and Rikiesha Metzger, interim director of the Jubilee Arts program at Intersection of Change, a community center in Gray’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, what’s changed, and what hasn’t.
Stories from the Stoop: Glass half full!

1 month ago | wypr.org | Sheilah Kast |Melissa Gerr

Here's a Stoop Story from Jason Newton about seeing Baltimore through new eyes, the day after a fiery, violent night in Sandtown-Winchester in April, 2015. Freddie Gray died in police custody, April 19, 2015. His death ignited a range from peaceful protests to clashes with police in Baltimore. May his memory, and what it came to stand for, live as inspiration for solidarity and caring community. On The Record Freddie GrayOn the RecordWYPR ProgramsStoop Storytelling