1-30-12: Future of Maryland’s Family Farms?

How could changing the estate tax in Maryland affect the amount of farmland in Maryland?

1-27-12: Will Social Media Crack Open the Ivory Tower?

They say print is dying; in journalism and publishing, anyway. Our social media analysts Nathan Jurgenson and P.J. Rey tell us why it’s far from dead in academia, where knowledge is still locked up behind the paywalls of prestigious journals.

1-27-12: Maryland Morning Screen Test: Karen Yasinsky

Karen Yasinsky tells Tom Hall why she felt she had to make the leap from visual art to motion pictures, and how a puppet can make you feel something even if its face never changes expression.

1-25-12: Maryland’s Fetal Homicide Law

Two doctors practicing in Cecil County have been charged with murder under the state’s fetal homicide law. It’s the first time prosecutors in Maryland have used the law to bring charges against physicians performing abortions. We learn how the law compares to others around the country from policy analysts at the Guttmacher Institute and the National Right to Life Committee.

1-25-12: The Genuine Progress of Maryland

How Maryland measures how far it’s come and where it’s going.

1-25-12: Murder Speak

Every week, City Paper chronicles each of Baltimore City’s homicides in its Murder Ink column. For the fifth year in a row, one year’s worth of those chronicles will be read aloud. We’ll talk to an organizer of the event at University of Maryland’s law school, and to a man who has served a sentence for murder.

1-25-12: Maryland Morning Culture Calendar

Treats for aesthetes!

1-24-12: Al-Shabab and Craig Baxam

A Marylander is arrested for trying to join Al Shabab, a terrorist-designated organization. What happens now that he’s back in the States?

1-24-12: Hello Hubble!

You’ve just seen the furthest edge of the known universe. Now what?

1-24-12: in (parentheses)

A tour of an exhibition from Baltimore’s newest photographers’ collective.