The Midday Weekly Review: Friday March 15, 12-1 p.m.




WYPR: Midday with Dan Rodricks Podcast show

Summary: A review of top stories of the region with the reporters who covered them and some of the newsmakers behind them. This hour: Allison Bourg of the Capital Gazette on the sentencing of former Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold;WYPR State House repoter Karen Hosler on the latest from Annapolis; the Baltimore Sun's Steve Kilar on Baltimore's population growth; Patch.com's Adam Bednar on the seqeuster's local imact; Danielle Gaines of the Frederick News Post on a proposed dram shop law; the Washington Post's Steve Mufson on a bill in Annapolis that is trying to close a loophole that paid millions of dollars in renewable energy money to Western Maryland paper mills that produced black liquor; and author Kathleen Koch on the two-year anniversary of the Japanese tsunami disaster.