Sheilah Kast
Host, On The RecordSheilah Kast hosts On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. She came to WYPR from NPR 2006. In 2014 she and her team at Maryland Morning won a prestigious Dupont-Columbia University award for a year-long probe of inequality in the Baltimore region called “The Lines Between Us.” Sheilah learned how to report the news at The Washington Star, and learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV.
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Here's a Stoop Story from K.C. about family secrets … and the strength and connection that can happen when they come out into the open. -
We go On the Record with Martin O’Malley - former governor of Maryland, now Commissioner of the Social Security Administration - to discuss changes he’s made and challenges the agency faces. -
Jen Diamond reflects on a silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
The Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC) measures the health of air, water, soil and trees across the city. What will they do with the information? -
A show for the birds! New research from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science sheds light on the habits of migratory songbirds. -
Maryland Department of Juvenile Service's Thrive Academy helps at-risk youth get back on track. We find out how. -
We go On the Record with the Baltimore City mayor’s office to ask how they plan to spend more than $242 million dollars in opioid overdose restitution funds -- and if there will be more? -
Here’s a Stoop Story from Michael Furr about finding his way up from the bottom.
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Maryland’s state administrator of elections has been on the job a year. What big challenges does he see this fall? -
Americans born since 1996 are starting to vote! What do they care about? How do they differ from older voters? We ask the author of “The Politics of Gen Z.”
