Future City on WYPR

Schools in Baltimore City have struggled over the years, and face a potential sixty million dollar budget shortfall in 2... Read more

Food insecurity is rampant in Baltimore, with nearly a quarter of the city's residents struggling to acquire healthy, af... Read more

This month on Future City we discuss COVID-19. As states like Maryland begin to loosen restrictions and re-open business... Read more

In a year when a mayor resigned over an ethics scandal, many in Baltimore are asking if the time is right for institutio... Read more

We discuss how trauma and PTSD shape people’s lives in Baltimore and beyond, and how activists, service providers, educa... Read more

Erricka Bridgeford is a co-creator of Baltimore Ceasefire 365, an organization that seeks to end homicides in the city. ... Read more

For the fifth year in a row, the annual number of homicides in Baltimore has surpassed 300. Young people have been at th... Read more

Baltimore is at the center of the lead crisis in the U.S., and generations of Baltimoreans have been poisoned by the hea... Read more

Over 3.4 billion people use social media, but with privacy concerns and accusations of false information – what’s the fu... Read more

Here in Maryland, there are nearly 4,000 children in foster care. With so many children in need, how do we ensure a futu... Read more

With the highest imprisonment rate in the world, the United States is long overdue to address the issue of mass incarcer... Read more

When many of us think of the modern workplace, we start thinking about the images we’ve seen of Facebook and Google head... Read more

We live in a society deeply invested in ownership. It’s been the classic way to gain, sustain, and grow family wealth. I... Read more

Music has long been used as protest. Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, John Lennon, and CCR, and so many others, used... Read more

Police departments in our country are struggling. In 2015, Gallup reported that public confidence in police was at a his... Read more

What is the future of higher education? Some say it’s vocational and trade schools – programs that offer more technical ... Read more

In this hour, Wes turns a critical eye toward public transit. He speaks with transportation expert and Harvard Business ... Read more

Wes looks to Boston, where a clean harbor and a growing urban agriculture initiative are turning the city into a prime e... Read more

In this episode, Wes looks into the issue of pretrial justice in Baltimore and the problem of money bail. Wes looks to t... Read more

In this episode, Wes explores initiatives that are helping to improve how police respond to people in mental distress. A... Read more