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EPISODE · Feb 23, 2018 · 39 MIN

Midday News Wrap 02.23.18

from Midday · host WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore

On today's edition of the Midday News Wrap, we begin with Baltimore Brew founding editor and publisher, Fern Shen. This week, the Brew published a series documenting the ballooning problem of overtime abuse in the Baltimore police department.Then, Luke Broadwater of the Baltimore Sun and investigative reporter Alec MacGillis of ProPublica join Tom to review some of the week’s top local and national stories, from Police Commissioner-designate Darryl De Sousa’s confirmation hearing in the City Council, to the Governor and the Mayor of Baltimore taking a victory lap following hundreds of warrant arrests, and the national debate over gun regulation that’s been re-ignited by last week’s deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

The NewsWrap panel looks at police overtime abuse___ city politics and the national gun debate.

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