All Episodes

Would You Go to Prison for Your Beliefs? Tim Martin Did

Data Center Lessons from Loudoun County, Va

Primary Day, Medicaid Work Requirements, Pepco Rate Increase Proposal, Invasive Plants

What Do the Woes at Penn State Tell Us about the Future of Higher Education?

Prior Restraint for Student Newspapers, Data Center Pause, Replacement Ballot

Homelessness and Hidden Spaces in Montgomery County, MD

Early Voting Starts June 11, Student Mental Health Support Cut, RealPage Lawsuit

What Your Third-Party Choice Looks Like

Attack Ad in County Race, School Psychologists Cuts, UMD Admissions Debrief

Grassroots Organizing in Montgomery County, Maryland

MD-VA Disparity in Immigration Enforcement, MCPS Budget Cut Impacts, Open Lunch at High Schools

Building a Rational Regulatory Regime for Data Centers

"Chicom" Slur, Ozempic Price Control, Emotional Straw Votes, Back STRIDE

Evan Glass for Montgomery County Executive: Candidate Interview

Progressive Income Taxes, Electricity Transmission Cost Allocation, Industrial Stormwater Permit

Will Jawando for Montgomery County Executive: Candidate Interview

Wootton Complaint to MSDE, MCPS Math Curriculum, AI Facial Recognition Gone Wrong

Andrew Friedson for Montgomery County Executive: Candidate Interview

How Long Before Maryland Regulates Internet Gaming and Prediction Markets?

Data Centers, Electricity Rates, Net Metering, and More in the Utility Relief Act of 2026

MoCo Taxes, MCPS 2026-27 Calendar, Local ICE Arrest Data, Solar Net Metering

2. The Courage to Be Disliked

What Did the New Health Committee Do This Session?

2026 MD General Assembly, AI pricing at grocery stores, MoCo Budget Breakdown

Double-header: Leul Dawit for MCPS SMOB 2026-27

Good Cause Eviction, Special Elections Bill, Naviance Class Action

State-Led Economic Development Lessons from Maine, Michigan, California, and Texas

MCPS Bets Big on Regional Programs and Boundaries, MD Senate and House Face Off

Crossover Update with Marc Korman

MCPS Regional Programs, Prevailing Wage in School Construction, Frederick Ballot Question

Development Disability Support Takes a Second Year of Cuts

Elrich Proposes Tax, User Fee Hikes, Pepco and WashGas Rate Increases, Provisional Driver's License

Counting the Days, Counting the Hours! MCPS' Snow Day Predicament

Data Center Wars, MCPS AI Monitoring, Snowcrete Melt Trash Report

Gino Unfiltered

OPM to Close CFC? Data Center Wars, ICE jail bills, School Community Organizing

Harvesting Empathy

Potomac Sewage Spill, Housing Bills, Charter School Closure

Can Maryland Control Prescription Drug Costs?

SRO Debate, Magruder HS, MCDCC Rule, College Park Renting

The Political Reeducation of Commissioner Ragen

Wootton HS to Move, Snowcrete Oversight, HoCo Cancels ICE Jail

An Oral History Seeks to Counter Erasure of Jan 6

Snowcrete 2026, Potomac Sewage Spill, ICE Warehouses, Closing Chinese Immersion Program

MCPS is Considering New Policy on AI in Classrooms. How is it going?

Potomac Sewage Spill, MD Budget, AI in Classrooms

Data Centers and Property Assessments

Speaker Peña-Melnyk, ER Wait Times, Immigrant Protection, Crisis Call Response

Have MD Counties Come Around to Gov Moore's Housing Agenda This Year?

Deter ICE Laws, Gov's Spending Ideas, School Board Pay Raise, Ravens Talk

2026 Maryland General Assembly Starts Jan 14. Preview.

Trump Tries Regime Change: Oil, Drugs, and Extraterritoriality

Merawi Gerima on Chocolate City Mixtape with Markus Batchelor

NPS to Redevelop Carter Barron, MCVFRA refutes IG report, Rockville v Gaithersburg

Derek Musgrove on Chocolate City Mixtape with Markus Batchelor

Veto Overrides, PJM Capacity Auctions, and Damascus v Wootton

Arrington Dixon on Chocolate City Mixtape with Markus Batchelor

UMBC Poll, Affordable Housing Costs, MCPS Advocacy

What's Wrong with Petitioning Your Local Government

MCPS Snow Closure Calls, Boundary/Program Changes, Early Apple Ballot, MoCo Tax Revenue Downturn

Will Healthcare Premiums Rise After Maryland's 50-year Sweetheart Deal with Medicare Ends?

Glock Redesigns Handgun, Flu Vax Uptake, Schools-Based Rental Assistance, CFC Pauses Listing

Sunday Supper with the Bobrows: Lessons in Community-Building at a time of Disorientation

PG Ends Pitbull Ban, PJM Members Reject New Data Center Rules, State Fiscal Update

Case Studies in Overpromise-Underdeliver: MCPS and the Chesapeake Watershed Agreement

Dem v Dem, Partisan Redistricting, New Data Center Rules, NIH Woes

Abundance, Meet Politics

MD Resistance to Trump, MCPS ICE Protocol, Middle School Closure, Boonsboro Cat Killer

Fighting the Car Brain

Backfilling SNAP, MUTCD, No Quorum in PG Public Body

Would Program Regions Create Six MCPS Mini-Districts?

State Protests, Slow Housing Starts, Cricket Fundraiser

Tiffany Kelly for Gaithersburg Mayor

Jud Ashman for Gaithersburg Mayor

MCPS Capital Budget, Contingent State Aid, College Park Wants More Police

Hacking College Financial Aid

Biking Student Killed, Glen Haven ES, School Boundaries, Rent Stabilization

The Conowingo Settlement

MD Continues Medicaid, SNAP, Charter School Teeters, Electric Power Politics

What Made MCPS Magnet Programs Work?

MD Tax Revenue Outlook, RFK Stadium Delay, $66 on I-66, Speed Camera Tickets

The Moon Plan to Condition State Aid for School Construction on Capacity Utilization

Chesapeake Bay, DC Home Rule, H1-B School Teachers, Lice Outbreak

MCPS Plans High School Enrichment Overhaul, But Can it Deliver?

MCPS Swatting Incidents, ICE Action Near Schools, PTA Meeting Spaces

Can Grassroots Budgeting Save Democracy?

DC Mayor v AG, New Housing Targets, MDOT Capital Budget, False Viral Story

A Mother's Grief

Trump's MD Lawsuit, Ghost Gun Jury Award, Rain Gauge Network

To Kill A Spotted Lanternfly

Back to School Apps, Magnet Program Changes, Gas Companies

Aletheia McCaskill's Story of the Moore Veto of the Reparations Bill

USDOJ Wants MD Voter List, Gas Leaf-Blower Reporting, 1A Challenge in MoCo

Failing FEMA Flood Maps and New Resilience Planning

Trump Seizes DC Police, Zoning Not the Answer, Lanternflies

Can Superintendent Taylor Return MCPS to its Heyday?

MCPS Payroll Fix, Flood Maps, RKV Rent Cap, M-83 Highway

Is the $1 Billion for RFK Stadium a Good Bet for DC?

MoCo Upzones, Lawsuits Against MCPS, RFK Revenues, Redistricting Trigger Law

MCPS Tees Up More School Choice, But at What Cost?

OBBA Impacts, County as Energy Supplier, Trayon White wins

The Unbearable Opacity of How MCPS Writes to Parents

I Hate the News Jul 15

Do Civil Servants Serve the Constitution or the President?

I Hate the News Jul 8

Pivoting From Federal Work

I Hate the News Jul 1

How Punishment Precedes Trial in State Courts

I Hate the News Jun 24

Escalating Fight Over LGBTQ Rights "Distracts" Frederick School Board

I Hate the News Jun 17

NIH Scientists Demand Bhattacharya Defend Agency

I Hate the News Jun 10

Can Gaithersburg Regulate HOAs and Condos Better than Montgomery County?

I Hate the News Jun 3

A Second Shot, A True Crime Episode

I Hate the News May 27

Governor Moore's Vetoes Move Him to the Middle as Reelection Looms

I Hate the News May 20

What AMZN HQ2 Search Tells Us About Government Transparency

I Hate the News May 13

The Challenge of Balancing Taxation and Spending

I Hate the News May 6

The Fight Against Government Secrecy

I Hate the News Apr 29

A Climate Activist Goes to Jail

I Hate the News Apr 22

Will Tight Budgets Bring Deregulation or Impasse?

I Hate the News Apr 15

Will Montgomery County's Only Charter School Open in Time?

I Hate the News Apr 8

Double Header: Peter Boyko for MCPS SMOB

Double-header: Anuva Maloo for MCPS SMOB

I Hate the News Apr 1

Can Climate Action and Conservation Unite?

I Hate the News Mar 25

The Problem of the 50-percent Democrat

I Hate the News Mar 18

How Long Must Kennedy High Wait for School Safety?

I Hate the News Mar 11

Apprentice v Intern

I Hate the News Mar 4

The Politics of Plastic Pollution

I Hate the News Feb 25

Behind Rising Electricity Rates

I Hate the News Feb 18

Stepping Out On Your Algorithm -- A Love Letter

I Hate the News Feb 11

18-Hour Neighbhoods in the DC Area

I Hate the News Feb 4

Local Journalism in the Shadow of the Federal City

I Hate the News Jan 28

What $2bn in Spending Cuts Looks Like

I Hate the News Jan 21

What to do About Continuing Racism in Schools

I Hate the News Jan 14

The Debate Over Taxes in Maryland

I Hate the News Jan 7

Waiting on the Governor's Budget

I Hate the News Dec 31

Is Regional Electricity Governance Broken?

I Hate the News Dec 24

The 2024 All Local Music Holiday Yule Log

I Hate the News Dec 17

Permitting Fixes For More Housing

I Hate the News Dec 10

The Blueprint in A Time of Deficit

I Hate the News Dec 3

A Portrait of A Young Activist

I Hate the News Nov 26

Like a Car Running in the Kitchen

I Hate the News Nov 19

Thinking About Quitting America?

I Hate the News Nov 12

Hot Wash on a Cold Day

I Hate the News Nov 5

Will The Washington Post Now Stop Endorsing in Local Races?

I Hate the News Oct 29

Delmarva's First Offshore Wind Farm Gets Closer to Approval

I Hate the News Oct 22

The Fight Against Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation in Elections

I Hate the News Oct 15

25 Years After Electricity Deregulation, A Call to Return to State Intervention

I Hate the News Oct 8

Maryland Teacher Uses Comedy to Take on Moms for Liberty

I Hate the News Oct 1

The Long and Continuing Fight to Save Public Education

I Hate the News Sept 24

Civil Liberties and Drone Policing

I Hate the News Sept 17

Why Are Delevelopers Not Building More?

I Hate the News Sept 10

How Teacher Professional Development Works

I Hate the News Sept 3

The Kamala Switch

I Hate the News Aug 27

The Fiscal Dilemma Facing Maryland

I Hate the News Aug 20

Reforming Maryland's Referendum Process

I Hate the News Aug 13

Where Do Taxes Come From?

I Hate the News Aug 6

Ben The Innocent

I Hate the News July 30

Unboxing Government Procurement

I Hate the News July 23

Balancing Development and Infrastructure

I Hate the News July 16

New Teachers Union Prez Says Budget Transparency Can Blunt Cuts

I Hate the News July 9

Finding DC's Lost Streams

I Hate the News July 2

Should the County Executive be Limited to Two Terms?

I Hate the News June 25

Sami Saeed's Frustrations with School Safety in MCPS

I Hate the News June 18

What Should the State Do on Housing?

I Hate the News June 11

The County Sells Your Tax Debt

I Hate the News June 4

Inside David Trone's $60m Senate Campaign

I Hate the News May 28

Did you Miss the GIS Revolution in Local Government?

I Hate the News May 21

We Love Consequential Primaries

I Hate the News May 14

Brenda Diaz for Board of Education: Candidate Interview

I Hate the News May 7

Sarah Elfreth for Congress: Candidate Interview

Terri Hill for Congress: Candidate Interview

Natalie Zimmerman for Board of Education: Candidate Interview

Clarence Lam for Congress: Candidate Interview

I Hate the News Apr 30

Rita Montoya for Board of Education: Candidate Interview

Lynne Harris for Board of Education: Candidate Interview

Lesley Lopez for Congress: Candidate Interview

Joe Vogel for Congress: Candidate Interview

I Hate the News Apr 23

Shebra Evans for Board of Education: Candidate Interview

Laura Stewart for Board of Education: Candidate Interview

I Hate the News Apr 16

Even the Key Bridge Collapse Did Not Alter Maryland's Priorities

I Hate the News Apr 9

Double-header: Praneel Suvarna for MCPS SMOB

Double-header: Sam Ross for MCPS SMOB

I Hate the News Apr 2

The Rise of Drone Reporting

I Hate the News Mar 26

The Book of White Rural Rage

I Hate the News Mar 19

Brooke Lierman on Maryland's Slow Economy

I Hate the News Mar 12

Martin Austermuhle on WAMU Layoffs

I Hate the News Mar 5

Stopping a Stadium in Your Backyard

I Hate the News Feb 27

What is Jake Day Thinking?

I Hate the News Feb 20

Buy Nothing Love Letter

I Hate the News Feb 13

Can Maryland Preempt Local Zoning?

Will Takoma Park Finally Build Affordable Housing?

New FAFSA Form Delays College Aid Decisions

Can Government Alone Create Housing Affordability?

Local Scientist Takes Disability Claim to Court

90 Days, 800 Bills, and A Budget

Story of the Year: Muslim Book Protests Revisited

2023 Holiday Yule Log with Local Music and Nonprofits

Can a Long-Awaited Data Dashboard Deliver Equity in MCPS?

The Divided House of Democratic Politics

The Plot to Stop Junk Fees

MoCoShow Makes the News

Life in the HOTTER Lane

The Doughnut Hole of Political Accountability

Uber Tears Through the Public Square

Candidate Interviews Rockville City Council

Candidate Interviews Mark Pierzchala and Monique Ashton for Rockville Mayor

How Do You Report on a Movement Denying Your Existence?

The Unraveling of a $1.1 bn State-Run College Fund

Why Does Wes Moore's Transportation Plan Look Like Hogan's?

Can Deep Pockets Revive Local Media?

When the Pandemic Broke Maryland's Unemployment Insurance

The Messy Equilibrium of Local Governance

Jill Carter, Martin O'Malley, and Political Trauma in Baltimore

The Fight for Stable Wages in DC

When a 32-Vote Victory Becomes a Mandate on Housing

Get Ready For A Big Bailout Of MD Gas Utilities

Companies Can Vote in Delaware?!

Reckoning with Redevelopment in Rockville

Will Fewer Traffic Stops Make Us Safer?

Housing Crisis: MoCo Bets on Rent Control

Can Incremental Change Fix Road Safety?

Voice of @ihppod Kara Levchenko Releases Debut Album

The Case Against Localism

Ten Things to do Outdoors in DC

The Absolute Disaster of Retail Energy Choice

Muslims Protest LGBTQ+ Books in MoCo; DC Pilots Flex Teacher Schedules

Militias Find Allies in Local Government

Reinventing Community Supported Agriculture

Comparing Rent Increases Along the Purple Line

Two Families Rethink Their Housing Choices

Why Are There 20 Coffee Shops in Downtown Silver Spring?

Does Ag Land Preservation Work?

How Corruption Built Trash Collection

De Tokeville: Maryland Rolls Out Legal Weed

Former MCPS Superintendent Josh Starr: "In a Race to be Second"

Yoseph Zerihun and Sami Saeed for SMOB: IHP Candidate Interviews

To Look for America

The Rise and Rise of Pickleball

Hard to Grow Agriculture Education

How to Build ADUs and Why We Are Not Building More

Car Culture and Bike Lanes

Can Maryland Reduce Gun Violence?

MCPS Calls Fentanyl a Societal Crisis

How Working From Home is Reshaping the Economy

A Low-Salt Diet for Our Roads

Disruptive Politics

Bringing the Band Back Together

Overcoming Polarization in Frederick, MD

Previewing the 2023 Maryland State Legislative Agenda

Holiday Yule Log with Local Music and Nonprofits

What Does the State Windfall Mean for Counties?

Where the Sidewalk Meets the Tree

Are School Ratings Meaningful?

Inside College Financial Aid

What's Wrong with Montgomery County's School Bus Cameras

Inside Campaign Work

We Know Less about Politics than We Think

Karla Silvestre and Valerie Coll for Montgomery County Board of Education

Will School Project Delays Persist Despite Revenue Growth?

Michael Peroutka and Anthony Brown for Maryland AG and Brooke Lierman for MD Comptroller

How a Bill Really Becomes Law -- The Local Government Edition

Fall Eating Guide with Local Influencer Michelle Katz

When Do Problems Become Political?

The Fragile Economics of the Ag Reserve

How to Pay for Public Goods: Carbon Sequestration

The Trouble with Youth Mental Health

The Hazard of Walking to School

Legal Win Won't Fix MCPS Magnet Admissions

What We Learned from Primary 2022

Fixing the Teacher Shortage

Get Outdoors, Maryland!

A PAC Rides into Town

Maryland Prepares to be Abortion Safe Haven

Can Government Become Business-Friendly?

The Case for Ending Judicial Review

How Carroll County Schools Banned Pride Flags

Montgomery County Council District 5 IHP Candidate Interview

Montgomery County Council Districts 2 and 4 IHP Candidate Interviews

Montgomery County Council At-Large Race IHP Candidate Interview

Max Socol for Maryland Senate District 18 IHP Candidate Interview

Marc Elrich for Montgomery County Executive IHP Candidate Interview

Montgomery County Council District 4 IHP Candidate Interview

Montgomery County Board of Education District 3 IHP Candidate Interview

The House of the Apple Ballot

Earth Day with the Sunshiners

Montgomery County Council District 7 IHP Candidate Interview

Anthony Brown and Katie O'Malley for MD Attorney General IHP Candidate Interview

Baba Cissé and Arvin Kim for SMOB IHP Candidate Interview

Three Voices Behind the News

Washington Post Misses Local News

The Politics of Disability Rights

Montgomery County Council District 6 IHP Candidate Interview

State's Attorney Race Montgomery County IHP Candidate Interview

Hans Riemer for Montgomery County Executive IHP Candidate Interview

The Living Organ Donation Love Letter

Tim Adams for Maryland Comptroller IHP Candidate Interview

David Blair for Montgomery County Executive IHP Candidate Interview

Montgomery County is NOT Alright

When Republicans Challenge Redistricting

Marilyn Balcombe for Montgomery County Council District 2 IHP Candidate Interview

The Politics of Budget Surplus

All Local Music Yule Log

Private Property, Public Good, and Eminent Domain

Special Elections v Vacancy Appointments

Sports Ain't Politics, Right?

The Thanksgiving Labor Politics Episode

Will Jawando for Montgomery County Council at-Large IHP Candidate Interview

The American Dream

So You Want Affordable Housing

Gabe Albornoz for Montgomery County Council at-Large IHP Candidate Interview

Church Doctrine and Covid Response

Gaithersburg City Council Race IHP Candidate Interview

Jud Ashman and Stephen Escobar for Gaithersburg Mayor IHP Candidate Interview

The Case of the Missing MoU

Where the Grassroots Grow

Montgomery County is Alright!

Managing Stormwater in the Climate Crisis

Brooke Lierman for Maryland Comptroller IHP Candidate Interview

Resilience Over Prevention in Climate Action Plan

Incentives for Growth or Corporate Welfare?

IHP Candidate Interview: Kristin Mink for Montgomery County Council At-Large

Brandy Brooks for Montgomery County Council At-Large IHP Candidate Interview

Delegate Korman Wants to Bypass Hogan's Toll Lanes

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

John King for Maryland Governor IHP Candidate Interview

IHP Promo "From Not Engaged to Running for Office" with County Council Candidate Brandy Brooks

Should We Allow Gardens in the Right of Way?

Small Town Urbanism

Schools: Leadership First, Then Budgets

IHP Promo: "You Don't Hate Politics!" With education activist Jill Ortman-Fouse

The Persistence of School Segregation

Transit v Tolls

"Is Every Kid Accounted For?"

Can Outdoor Learning Save Education?

Expanding the Safety Net: COVID Food Distribution

Is Bethesda Magazine a Local Media Unicorn?

Budgeting! Redistricting! Exciting!

The Politics of Public Art and Culture

Maryland Legislators Step Out Ahead on Police Reforms

The Moral Standoff between Conservation and Climate Action

Who Do Neighborhood Associations Serve?

The Muddy Lines of Education Accountability

Forging the Asian-American Political Identity

Why is it So Hard to Remove Police from Schools

Vaccine Equity Needs More than Supply

The Political Economy of Suburban Housing Shortage

Why the Name? Promo with Casey Anderson, MoCo Planning Board Chair

What White's Ferry debacle says about the Purple Line

Choosing Your Advocacy Style

A small street resdesign project promises big dividends