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Here's a Stoop Story from Andy Parsley about having the courage to ask for help and the strength to heal.

The title calls for your attention: “You, Me and My Mental Illness.” It’s a new podcast by NAMI Maryland -- the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Its creator, former WYPR reporter and journalist Mary Rose Madden, describes it as “Portraits that show what it’s like to live with a mental illness and how it reshapes relationships." The first season features Remy, 17, and her mother Joy. Joy and Ma...

An artificial intelligence model that can identify patients most at risk of dying of sudden cardiac arrest, at a rate much higher than human doctors can, has been developed by Dr. Natalia Trayanova,the Murray B. Sachs Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where she’s also a professor of medicine. She also directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnost...

The shredding of USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, wiped out a big part of the budget of Catholic Relief Services, based in Baltimore. CRS was created by U.S. Catholic bishops in 1943 to help those displaced by World War II. It serves more than 200 million people in 122 countries. What part of its work continues? What effects is it seeing from the aid cuts? We talk with Sean Ca...

The Trump administration had not yet brought Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from prison in El Salvador June 6 when a federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted him on charges of taking part for years in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented immigrants across the United States. The sealed indictment was waiting in Nashville when Abrego got back to the U.S. Abrego, who has lived almost half his 29 years in...

What does Kevin Plank’s 2013 trip to Dubai have to do with your surging BGE bill?

Here's a Stoop Story from Stacy Chambers about love at first bite. Or was that a snarl ...?

There are more than 3,600 different species of snake worldwide, living on every continent (except Antarctica). Snakes thrive in all sorts of climates, from deserts, to forests, even under the sea! And they can get into all sorts of places and they play a crucial role in many different ecosystems. Brittany Roger, Environmental Educator and Snake Specialist at Irvine Nature Center tells us all about...

Americans buy a lot of clothes. The non-profit Public Interest Research Group estimates that the average consumer bought 53 items of clothing last year, which is four times as much as 25 years ago. A lot of that clothing ends up in the trash - it’s estimated that more than half of clothes get thrown out within a year after being purchased. And in the US, upwards of 17 million tons of textiles get...

A new report by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions delves into what it calls “the gun suicide epidemic.” Of the 46,728 people who died in the the U.S. by gun violence in 2023, 58 percent died by suicide--a record. We talk with Dr. Paul Nestadt, an of the author of the new report. He's a psychiatrist who treats anxiety disorders at Johns Hopkins an...

The Trump Administration’s assaults on LGBTQ+ rights - as well as recent Supreme Court decisions on gender affirming care and LGBTQ+ materials in schools - are having a significant impact on LGBTQ+ youth. The Trevor Project says about half of LGBTQ+ youth who want mental health care are not able to get it… and a national suicide prevention hotline could stop offering specialized support for LGBTQ+...

The National Resource Center for LGBTQ+ Aging says that within the next 5 years, the number of LGBTQ+ adults in America over the age of 65 is expected to reach the 7 million mark. Those elders face a number of challenges due, in part, to a lifetime of discrimination. They’re more likely to face poverty, homelessness, and have poor physical and mental health. We talk with Monte Ephraim, a retired s...

What makes a firework work? On this Independence Day we speak with John Conkling, who was a chemist and former director of the American Pyrotechnic Association. This is an encore presentation, Conkling died in 2019. He describes what goes inside fireworks to make audiences say oooh and aaaah!

Dr. Peter V. Rabins has been studying the brain, and dementia in particular, for a half century, since before most Americans had heard of Alzheimer disease. He founded and directed the division of geriatric psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Over the decades patients have asked him thousands of questions about how memory works, what dementia is, what might stave it off, how to help so...

Here's a Stoop Story from Rohaizad Suaidi about his love and dedication for America. You can catch the next live stoop event July 18 at 7pm at the Patterson Park Cedar House. The theme is ‘Smalltimore: Stories About a City So Small, Even Your Secrets Have Neighbors.’

Juvenile crime is down, but many people don’t feel safer. What’s Maryland doing wrong? Vincent Schiraldi, just replaced as head of the Department of Juvenile Services, decries charging kids as adults. He tells why he left, and what’s next: “I’m gonna kayak, I’m gonna hike a little, and then I'm gonna come back out and pick a fight.”

Do you ever wonder about who produced the food you enjoy each day? Lindsey Jacobs, who served as Ms. Agvocate USA 2024, wants the public to better understand the farmer to table connection. We learn more in a visit to her Church View Farm. Today’s show is an encore presentation from July, 2024. It recently took top prize from the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcaster’s Association for ‘outstandi...

Here's a Stoop Story from Geoffrey Danek about the bond that can grow between man and beast. Find more information at StoopStorytelling.com

Of every six people who live in Maryland, one was born outside the U.S. Sixteen per cent. Many have been here legally through something called TPS, Temporary Protected Status. TPS has allowed about a million people from countries torn by war, civil unrest and natural disasters to live in the U.S.legally -- and to work legally in the U.S. Shortly after he was inaugurated in January, President Trump...

In less than three weeks, more than ten thousand Afghans who fled their country when the U.S. pulled its military forces out three years ago will lose the protections that allow them to live and work in the U.S. When the government announced it was revoking Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, the Baltimore-based nonprofit Global Refuge called it “a crushing blow to Afghan allies who were promised...

The Trump administration has told hundreds of thousands of migrants who fled violence or disasters in Latin America that they can no longer stay in the U.S. We ask a labor leader and a worker what this means in Maryland, and an advocate for refugees what will happen to thousands who fled Afghanistan.

Dr. Joanne Martin tells a stoop story about the founding of the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. The next live Stoop Storytelling event is tonight; it's called "Unleashed: No muzzles, no collars, just real stories about animal companions." Information about the event, more stories, and the Stoop podcast is at StoopStorytelling.com.

The Irene and Richard Frary Gallery - located in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC - is featuring an exhibit that draws heavily on the shining talents of its neighbor to the north. It’s called ‘Strong, Bright, Useful & True: Recent Acquisitions and Contemporary Art from Baltimore’ and it runs through September 6. We talk about it with the gallery’s inaugural director,...

It’s been less than a month since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that his department no longer recommends that healthy kids and pregnant women be vaccinated against Covid 19. The turmoil has only accelerated, as Kennedy last week fired the entire CDC vaccine advisory committee, and began restocking it with doctors, some of whom are skeptical of vaccines. We tal...

Baltimore-based non-profit Make Studio supports the work of artists with disabilities in myriad ways and the space creates an atmosphere that churns with creativity, collaboration and fun. Their latest exhibit is: ‘Express Impressionist: The Inversive Artistic Practice of Eddie Kil’ and there’s a gallery opening tomorrow night. We talk about the exhibit and about Make Studio's mission with Stefan...