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Conduit Street Podcast — 377 episodes
News or Noise: Blueprint Pressure, AI Surveillance, and College Sports
The Briefing Room: Preservation as a Housing Strategy
Summer MACoCon Is Over but the Conversations Continue
Special Bonus Episode: Frederick County's Data Center Playbook
The Briefing Room: The Office-To-Housing Challenge
News or Noise: Redistricting, Revenue, and NBA Hot Takes
The Briefing Room: Smith Island Cake Effect
Healthy Communities With the American Heart Association
The Briefing Room: Inside the Private Side of Housing Finance
The Briefing Room: The State's Role in Solving Maryland's Housing Crisis
Special Edition: The Briefing Room Talks Data Centers, Fact vs. Fiction
The Briefing Room: Why Housing Costs More Than Ever
News or Noise: Maryland Primaries, Power Shifts, and What Comes Next
The Briefing Room: Before the Bricks, the Financial Realities of Housing
From Maryland to Missouri, County Issues Align
Different States, Similar County Challenges
The Briefing Room Ep 5: The Annapolis Energy Agenda
The Briefing Room Ep 4: The Data Center Dilemma
May in Maryland: What's News, What's Noise?
The Briefing Room Ep 3: Where Our Power Comes From
Maryland Mail-In Ballot Questions, Answered
The Briefing Room Ep 2: How PJM Shapes Maryland’s Energy Future
Service, Strategy, and Next Steps - A Conversation With Senator Sara Love
Maryland by the Numbers: The Latest UMBC Poll With Mileah Kromer
The Briefing Room Ep 1: Who Really Controls Maryland’s Energy?
News or Noise? Breaking Down Maryland’s 2026 Session
90 Days Later; Sine Die Recap
Elections, Federal Executive Orders, and What’s Real
Puzzle Pieces of the Balanced Budget
A Day in the Life at MACo: Legislative Session Edition
Session Updates on Housing, Budget Pressure, and the Road to Crossover
Educating the Next Generation of Public Leaders
Local Leaders Rally To Avoid Highway User Revenue Cliff
The Governor’s Budget and the County Bottom Line
County Health on the Front Lines
Setting the Stage for 2026: Affordability, County Priorities, and an Election Year Shift
Exelon Talks Energy Security and Rising Costs in Maryland
How Howard County Is Reimagining the Response to Homelessness
Water, PFAS, and Climate Resilience: What Counties Need to Know
From Policy to Progress: What’s Next for School Construction With Alex Donahue
Professor Todd Eberly on “Interesting Times” in MD Politics
Housing in 2026: Counties Come to the Table With Solutions
Cybersecurity, AI Bots & Public Records: What Counties Need to Know
Hot Takes: Shutdowns, SNAP, and the State of Countyland
Pitching Policy & Fielding a Federal Shutdown - A DC View with Congressman Johnny O
A Seat at the Table: MACo's 24-County Tour Hits St Mary's
Keeping the Lights On: Maryland, PJM, and the Future of Energy
Revenues, Roads, and Rising Risks
Libraries Leading Maryland
Turning Data Into Decisions: Results for America in Maryland
Maryland Supreme Court Weighs Public Nuisance Claims in Opioid Case
Baltimore City's Opioid Response Strategy With Councilwoman Phylicia Porter
Live from Summer #MACoCon With Comptroller Brooke Lierman
Rethinking Housing Policy Beyond Zoning
Medicaid, Maryland, and the Future of Healthcare
Annapolis, Energy, and the Future: A County Conversation With MEA
Rethinking Employee Coverage with Dedicated Health Centers
Opioid Remediation in Focus: A Conversation with Secretary Keller
Zoned In: Housing Headaches and Hopes Across MD & VA
Wired for Change: VA & MD Talk Energy Futures
Mapping Maryland's Growth With GIS
Inside the Committee Room With Delegate Marc Korman
Headline Check: Bond Ratings and That “Big, Beautiful Bill”
Disaster Dollars in Danger — Federal Funding Fades, County Risks Rise
Lowering Prescription Drug Costs in Maryland
Reviewing the Remix of Maryland's Education Plan
Exploring Smarter Spending With NACo
Budget’s in the Books, Now What?
MACo's 2025 Legislative Session Wrap Up
The Budget Balance Beam, Covering Annapolis With Pamela Wood
Crossover Week and Maryland's Housing Crunch
The Year of the Impossible County Budget
Josh Kurtz on Politics, Journalism, and What’s Next After Maryland Matters
The Pulse on Maryland’s Energy
Notes From Nebraska & Maryland Parallels
Education Priorities for Maryland's Future
Signals From the West With Commissioner Paul Edwards
Breaking Down the Budget
Panel: 2025 General Assembly Forecast at the 2024 Winter MACoCon
Aging Well in Maryland
Blueprint for Success: Dr. Carey Wright’s Vision for Maryland Education
Maryland’s Fiscal Crisis and County Implications
Maryland's Energy Future and the Effect on Local Govt
Mystery and Mechanics of Modern Elections
Ask Me Anything With Michael Sanderson and Kevin Kinnally Pt 2
Ask Me Anything With Michael Sanderson and Kevin Kinnally Pt 1
Creating Inclusive Spaces With Sparks@Play
Shaping Maryland’s Future Through Public Service Leadership at the University of Baltimore
AMA Teaser: Can You Stump the Conduit Street Podcast Hosts?
Where Are We? Breaking Down the State's Fiscal Picture
Navigating Year Three of Maryland's Education Plan
Baltimore City Evolving and Thriving
Polling, Politics, and Public Service - A Chat with Mileah Kromer
I Hate Politics Crossover: Where Do Taxes Come From?
Legislative Progress and Challenges in Public Safety with Senator Will Smith
Exploring Tax Policy and Fairness
Me, Myself, and AI: #MACoCon Keynoter Mo Hasan's Vision Forward
Legends of County Governance: Stories from MACo's Early Years
A Neighborly Chat With the Pennsylvania County Association
Aerial Assistance: Exploring Drones as First Responders
Much Ado About ADUs
Navigating County Budgets: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions - Part II
Digging Into Maryland Elections
Navigating County Budgets: Trends, Challenges, and Solutions
Breaking Ground on MD's New Court-Ordered Treatment Law
Queen Anne's County's Boat Plastic Recycling Initiative
Maryland Economy & Policy with Comptroller Brooke Lierman
Maryland League of Conservation Voters' Impact on Local Gov
Maryland Pulse Check with Dr. Mileah Kromer
Water Water Everywhere - PFAS, Streams, and Sea Level Rise
2024 Legislative Session Wrap Up
SPECIAL: The Critical Case Against Cutting Local Road/Bridge Funding
SPECIAL: Final Week of 2024 Session
First Steps (and Next Steps) for the Fiscal Plan For FY25 and Beyond
Counties Gain an Edge Through NACo
What Do You Do About Fluky Formulas?
Talking AI With Ben Yelin
Smart Tech Development: Frederick’s Test Case
We Break Down the New Budget
2024 Session Kickoff and Preview of Workforce Issues
Transportation Cuts, an "On the Ground" View
Hot Topics for Cold Weather
Checking In With the MD Chamber of Commerce
2024 Legislative Initiatives
Notes from North Carolina
Fiscal Forecast: Warning or Watch?
Winter’s Coming: Preparedness and Policy for Post-COVID Flu Season
Election Law and Policy with Walter Olson
The User Pays Principle – Good and Bad Applications
Oversight and Obstacles: The Civilian Role in Police Accountability
All Aboard: Transportation Commission Leaves the Station
Tech, Cyber, AI, Oh My!
The Blueprint Gets Its Check-up
The Detention Dilemma: What We Ask of Local Jails (Part 2)
Talking Housing with Tom Coale
"Child Care Cliff" Looms Large
Pittman Pitches on Schools/Housing Paradox
Cannabis Comes to Town
Commercial Real Estate: Apocalypse or Opportunity?
Gears Still Turning in Annapolis
Two Barriers to EV Adoption in MD
Debt Limit: Deal or No Deal?
The Detention Dilemma: What We Ask of Local Jails
Goucher Poll Takes the MD Pulse
School Funding: Session Flukes and the Future
Evolving Policy on Public Safety Response
Sine Die Send-Off & Session Recap
County Budgets: The Annapolis Effects
Creeping Up On Crossover
The State of Play for School Funding
Nod to The North Star State
Local Leaders Talk Collaboration and Cannabis
A Local Take on the State Budget Plan
Early Session Observations
New Session, New Faces
Session Preview: Climate, Housing, and Fostering Firefighters
Special Episode: No Pix X Conduit Collab
Session Preview: Health, Public Safety, and More!
Session Preview: Education (And More)
Yes to Public Information, and Yes to Privacy Protections
Elections and Reflections
Launching Public Safety Comms w/FirstNet
Back to Basics: MACo’s Top Issues
Capital Debt, School Construction, and Bonds? And No, We Don't Mean 007
Why Nobody Loves the Property Tax
Crystal Ball on the State’s Budget Surplus and Process
Assessing Agritourism and Agritainment
Oversight, Opioids, and … Henry VI?
Live From #MACoCon: SAS Talks Tech Tools for Tomorrow's Counties
Digging Into Tax Caps in Maryland
Our 70th Summer #MACoCon, a Preview
State House Reporter Pamela Wood Sticks the Landing
Safe and Smart Elections With David Levine
Election Anxiety, and the Gas Tax Debate Returns
Playing it Safe: The Latest on Infectious Threats
Empire State of Mind
(What’s the Deal With) Maryland’s Quirky Gas Tax
Covering Lots of Ground With Rep. Trone
Talking History and Policy with Preservation Maryland
Session Wrap-Up: Health and Safety
Session Wrap-Up: Paid Leave and Everything Education
Post-Session Wrap-Up: Climate, Landfills, Ambulances
And Down the Stretch They Come
Everything Elections
The Business and Policy of Cannabis
Late-Ish Night With Luedtke
The Boys Are Back in Town
Senate Re-Opening, Selfies at the Polls?
Back to School on Education Policy
Opioid Deal in the Books, More Health and Legal Issues
Flipping Through the Fiscal Plan
Conduit Street Podcast: '22 Session Kickoff, EMS in Crisis
Happy New Year, Let's Do The Numbers
Cyber Headlines and Conference Highlights
December Grab Bag
Protecting Public Servants, Tying Up Loose Ends
Back to Basics – MACo’s Top Issues
Digging Deep Into the Opioid Deal
Leadership - An Episode from the MACo Archives
Elevating Emergency Management
Maximizing Public Funds With three+one
New School Year, New Problem: A Bus Driver Shortage
The State House Beat, with Bryan Sears
Headline Issues: Both Policy and Process
Postcards from OC, Naptown, and DC
Live from #MACoCon: Tanium Talks Cybersecurity
Revisiting Redistricting
Headlines: Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
Live from the 2021 MD Land Preservation Conference
Back to Real Summertime, Safely
Teaching Through Troubled Times, w/MSEA
Getting Real (Estate) With Maryland REALTORS
Employer Issues Into the Recovery
Politics and Policy with Professor Todd Eberly
Data and Districts with Planning Sec. McCord
Public Polling, Vax Hesitancy with Mileah Kromer
We’re Back! Summer #MACoCon Is a Go
Session Reflections, On to Budgets
#AfterDark Late Session Rundown
Budgeting in Tumultuous Times
Session Reset: All the Big Issues
Busy Week in Annapolis
Mid-Session Musings, #AfterDark
Overrides Overview... and what is "Rebasing" Anyway?
#AfterDark: Vaccine Explanations and Session Updates
#AfterDark, Take Two... Hot Topics
#AfterDark Experiment #1
Highlighting Healthcare
Kicking Off the Strangest Session
Revved Up, But Not Over Reassessments
Fiscal Picture... Still Fuzzy
Looking Ahead, and Leadership Tools
Standing On a Corner, With a Friend From Arizona
Bond Rating Basics
Running Down the Results
Capitalizing on Our Community Colleges
Election Fun and Question One – With P.J. Hogan
The Maryland Mindset, with Guest Mileah Kromer
State Revenues: Looking Beyond the Headline
2021 Top Issues: Put Public Health First — Protect Services and Promote Funding
2021 Top Issues: Broadband Accessibility Act of 2021
2021 Top Issues: Elections Fairness and Funding
Legislators' Roadmap to Reconvene
The Doctor Is In — A Follow-Up Visit
Watching Washington... Still
West Coast Swing
Revisiting: Reopening, Relief, and Revenues
A Conduit St Look at Pennsylvania Avenue
Wrestling With Reopening
Big Issues, Big Data
Budget Balancing Breakdown
A View From the Senate
The State of Policing
Unemployment, From Every Angle
Elections - What a Week
State of the Podcast
Crisis Communications
Quiet "Veto Day" Still Makes Noise
KEEP CALM and COME to Your CENSUS!
Health and Humanity Amidst a Pandemic
Double Take on Kirwan Trigger, Cares Funding, and More!
Running the Numbers
Revisiting the Bag Ban... and Beyond
Holding Elections Amid a Pandemic
Maryland's Wacky Budget Process
Liberty in Trying Times
All Hands on Deck
Abrupt Ending, Awareness Everywhere
Everything Coronavirus – Practices, Policy, and the Public
Blueprint On Fast Track: What’s In? What’s Out?
Point of Sale Policies, Pondering Polls, and More!
Blueprint Ballyhoo, Sizing Up Services, and Tricky Tech
Kirwan Blueprint Bill and Tidbits Around Town
Blueprint Buildup, Local Focus, and Cranky Cancels
Word on the (Conduit) Street
"Supercharging" School Construction
First Look at the Fiscal Plan
2020 Session Preview
Special Edition: Live from Charm City
Conference Chatter, Tax Talk, Fiscal Fodder, and More!
Live at #MACoCon: New Technology, New Policy – The Ever-Shrinking Island of Cable Television
Kirwan Funding Proposal, Criminal Justice Issues, and More!
Kirwan Update, E-Book Embargo, Ridesharing Regs, and More!
Interesting Election Tidbits, Kirwan Chatter, and More!
Senate Shuffle, Health Headlines, Cleaner Climate, and More!
Kirwan Formulas and Finishing Touches
First Look at Kirwan Costs, 2020 Census Grants, and More!
School Funding Focus, Tricky Tax Issues, and More!
Goucher Poll, Fiscal Check-Up, and What's Up with Kirwan?
2020 Initiatives and More!
Leadership, Labor Day, and Lunchboxes
Live at the National Folk Festival
Oklahoma Opioid Opinion, Bay Bridge Buzz, and Kirwan Catch-Up
Conference Chatter, Snowballing School Debate, and More!
Live at #MACoCon with MDP & the US Census
School Funding, Fiscal Report Card, and Podcast Picks
By the Numbers: #MACoCon
Preemption Tension
Happy New (Fiscal) Year and What Counts as a Meeting? You Might Be Surprised...
Supremes Speak, Fiscal Follow-Up, and More!
Budget Battle, SALT Smackdown, and More!
Electric Vehicle Shock (On Revenues), School Funding Formulas, and More!
270 Traffic, 51 States, and 1,500 Lawsuits
Sediment, Cyber, Schools, and More!
Signing off, Cleaning up, and Checking on Tech
Eye on Annapolis... and Beyond
Key Court Cases, City Shuffle, Maryland Shines in South
Madame Speaker, Mister Mayor
Complete Count Conversation
After-Session Afterthoughts
Session-End Summary, Toasting the "Coach"
Pre-K-Through-12, Prescription Drugs, Preakness, and More!
"Spring Cleaning" Policy Roundup
Major Issues Mashup
Dueling Budgets, Solar, Septics, General Issue Updates, and More!
Breaking Down the Kirwan “Blueprint”
Committee Crunch Time, Public Safety Pop-Ups, and More!
Weekly Annapolis Roundup, Prickly Projects, Personal Privilege, and Public Polling
Brinkley on Budgets, Amazon's About-Face, Action on Airbnb, and More!
Session Shakeup, School-Year Suspense, and More!
State of the State, Party Priorities, Jail-Based MAT, and More!
Kirwan Commission Wraps 2018 Work, Fiscal Mother Lode, and the Latest from #MDGA19
Clues to Hogan's Budget Proposal, Economic Uncertainty Looming, and the Latest from #MDGA19
2019 Session Preview
Delayed or Derailed? What's Next for Kirwan? #MACoCon and More!
Kirwan's Kryptonite, Stadium Squeeze, WotUS, and More!
Major School Construction Proposal, Clues to the Kirwan Cost Split, and More!
#NG911 Report, Kirwan Testimony, Ranked-Choice Voting, #MACoCon, and County Awards
Spending Affordability, Volatile Revenues, & a Touch of Kirwan
Election Tidbits, Congressional District Dilemma, and Amazon Is Coming! ... Sort of
Special Edition: General Election Roundup
Kirwan Wrap Up, Early Voting Numbers, Election Preview, and High-Stakes Ballot Questions
School Funding Update, #NG911 Commission Convenes, 21st Century Libraries, and more!
Complete Streets, Small Cell Update, Maryland Health Connection, & Prescription for Change
Split the Check for School Construction? Not So Fast...
New Laws Take Effect, Internet Regs Spark Latest Clash Over States' Rights, & More!
Revenue Write-Up, 2020 Census, Listener Mailbag, & More!
Headlines & Happenings - Education, #NG911, Goucher Poll, Disaster Response, & Small Cells
Pondering Potential "Pay-Fors"
Keeping up with Kirwan
Digging Deeper on "Elevating Teaching," Candidate Shuffle, & More!
Smart Growth, Bay 'Pollution Diet,' & #MACoCon Recap
Live at #MACoCon with Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger
Maryland's Opioid Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?
Introducing the DLS Podcast
What's up with the Bay? SALT Suit, & Recruiting Top-Tier Teachers
New tech Driving New Policy - Part Two
On the Road with MACo, "Staggering" Price of Pre-K, & Primary Election Roundup
New Tech Driving New Policy - Part One
Beating the Heat, Janus v. AFSCME, & Primary Races We're Still Watching
Special Edition: 2018 Primary Election
SCOTUS Sounds Off, Early Voting Boom, Riveting Races, & More!
Primary Ballot Battle, Kirwan 2.0, Wynne Whammy, & #MACoCon
Procurement, Property Taxes, & Public Works
Kirwan Commission, Take Two. Fiscal Forecast, Session Resources, & Interim Intrigue
Sine Die Send-Off & Session Recap
Sine Die Is Quickly Approaching... What's Locked Up? What's Still Lingering?
School Construction Kerfuffle, Forest Bill In Limbo, Fending Off Hackers, & More!
Post-Crossover Roundup, School Construction, School Safety, & More!
"Crossover" Coming, Fiscal Follow Up, Body Cameras Back-And-Forth, and More!
Small Cells, Big Concerns. Fiscal Plan Coming Together, State Song Dilemma, & the Road Ahead
Local Roads Funding "Deal," BRFA Hearings, Unpacking the Big School Construction Bill, & School Safety
Conduit Street Podcast: Call If You Can, Text If You Must. Sunshine Laws, Attorney's Fees, #LIFT4MD, & Beer Wars
County Collaboration on Tax Reform, Lockbox Redux, Employer Mandates, and Bad Docs
9-1-1 Takes Center Stage, Huge Drop of Bills Introduced, Sick Leave Law Looms, and Senate Changes Afoot
#FixtheFund, Opioid Litigation, Wave of HUR Bills, Local Aid Intrigue, and more!
New Tax Analysis, Paid Leave Dilemma, Fiscal Outlook, and More!
Tax Relief Proposals, Governor's Budget... and More!
The General Assembly Is in Session!
Session 101
Small Cell Broadband/Election Issues
Solar, Solar... Everywhere?
The Power of Partnership
We're Back! Updates On School Funding, Federal Tax Reform, & Maryland's State Fiscal Picture
Education Funding In Maryland
How Would Federal Tax Reform Affect Maryland?
MACo's 2018 Legislative Initiatives