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Thursday, November 6
Noon-1:00

Wasting no time, the Baltimore Board of Estimates, led by Mayor Sheila Dixon, yesterday voted 4 to 1 to pay $4.1 million for land for a slots casino near the football stadium where the Ravens play. The vote to buy the land at a $400,000 premium came just 13 hours after Marylanders voted to legalize slot-machine gambling. Based on the percentages in Tuesday's election results, citizens of the Free State like the idea of slots here as much as they like Barack Obama. But now comes the local battles -- where to place 15,000 slot machines where they'll be accepted by nearby residents and businesses. We'll discuss the what-now? of video gambling with two reporters who've been on the slots beat -- Tom LoBianco of the Washington Times and Gadi Dechter of The Sun.

1:00-2:00 pm

After surviving skin cancer, Roger Martin, a former president at Randolph-Macon College, decided to become a student again. He'll join us in Studio A today to talk about what he learned as a 61-year-old freshman at St. John's College in Annapolis, where he studied the classics, joined the crew team and figured out how to connect with his 18-year-old classmates. Martin recounts his experiences in a memoir, Racing Odysseus (University of California Press, 2008), and he has a lot to say about the value of the liberal arts and sciences as an effective preparation for life and multiple careers.



 

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Jan. 8, 2009, marked 30 years for Dan Rodricks' column in The Baltimore Sun. Over three decades, Dan has won numerous regional and several national awards for his reporting and commentary -- in print and on the air. "I've had opportunity to write a column and work in both radio and television, never having to leave my adopted hometown of Baltimore to have those experiences," he says. "I consider myself very fortunate." In addition to writing a twice-weekly column for The Baltimore Sun and his Random Rodricks blog, Dan is currently the host of Midday, on WYPR-FM, National Public Radio in Baltimore. An artful story-teller and social critic, he has observed local, state and national political and cultural trends for three decades, and has a lot to say about almost everything.
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