8-15-11: From Delaware to Korea

Allen’s Family Foods, a 92-year-old poultry business based in Delaware, declared bankruptcy in June, and was purchased by Harim Group, a poultry company based in Korea. We talk with a grower who worked with Allen’s about what that might mean.

8-1-11: Hairspray

Baltimore’s first-ever local community production of Hairspray is currently running at the Essex campus of the Community College of Baltimore County — theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck gives us her take.

12-20-10: Et Tu, Transparency?

Has the stimulus act lived up to its promises of transparency?

12-8-10: A Second Wind for the Weatherization Industry?

After a slow start, Maryland’s stimulus-funded Weatherization Assistance Program is hitting its stride. What did it take to get it there, and what happens once the stimulus money’s all gone?

11-17-10: How Green Can America’s Waterworks Get?

How a “Green Reserve” slice of $6 billion in EPA stimulus money may be changing the types of water infrastructure projects that get built in Maryland and the country.

10-22-10: Shave and Pave Stimulus

The life and times of one 1.1 mile-long highway repaving project funded with stimulus money.

9-7-10: How Do You Measure Success?

How the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top fund has set the Maryland education establishment on a fast track to figuring out how to measure student and teacher success.

8-4-10: Counting on Stimulus

Neil Bergsman of the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute and John Walters of the Maryland Public Policy Institute on what the latest batch of stimulus data does–and does not–tell us.

6-4-10: Stimulating Affordable Housing

Federal stimulus money is building affordable housing in Baltimore’s Penn-North neighborhood.

4-30-10: Show Me the Solar Stimulus

Is stimulus money building a green energy economy in Maryland?