Delmarva Today on WSDL

Don Rush speaks one on one with Ajmel Queseshi, Adjunct Professor at Howard University Law School.

Helping Senior Citizens avoid con-artist schemes.

Guests:  Peggy Bradford, Executive Director of M.A.C. Inc. 

Teri Davidson, MAC  Maryland Access Point Director

 and Cheryl Senkbell, MAC Ombudsman
 

Guest host Jamyla Krempel speaks with Salisbury University Professor Darrell Newton about his recent book

Paving The Empire Road: BBC Television and Black Britons

Guest- Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D. Chair- SU Department of Communication Arts

Women's Health and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Guests

Maureen Pratt, syndicated columnist with the Catholic News Service. 

Susan Parker, Voices Editor for the Salisbury Daily Times

Local reaction to the the Trayvon Martin shooting

Guests:

Craig Wilson, an elder with the Cathedral of Love, a local Salisbury church.

Orville Penn..who serves on the Advisory Board to the Lower Eastern Shore Children's Center and was appointed to the Wicomico County Youth and Civic Center Commission.

Election 2012....we look at the state of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Guests:

Mike Pretl with the Wicomico Democratic Party

Ann Suthowski with the Wicomico Republican Party

The nation's unemployment rate just hit 8.3%.

And the President unveiled this week a series of new initiatives on the foreclosure front aimed at helping federal borrowers and homeowners.

We sort out what this means for the Eastern Shore.

Guests:

Memo Diriker, head of BEACON (Business, Economic and Community Outreach Network)

Dick Van Gelder, Vice President of Hebron Savings Bank

Ernie Colburn with the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce

Debating Gay Marriage in Maryland

Guests:

Juila Glanz, President, Salisbury University Graduate Student Council

Charles Lollar, New Day Maryland

"Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is believed to be the first English language play performed in the New World. As a portent of the future, it had a rebellious nature.

Guests:

Professor Joel Eis...has written a work called "The Play in August"..which tell a tight, imaginative story of how it may have come about.

Dr. Ray Thompson...Director of the Nabb Resource Center for Delmarva History and Culture

Delmarva Today 02-17-2012The fight over whether Wicomico County should send a letter of support to the State Board of Public Works for construction of the new Bennett Middle School is over. However, the long drawn out debate over funding of the local school system is far from finished.

Guests:

Wicomico County Council Member Sheree-Sample-Hughes

On Delmarva Today, a look at the life of illustrator and Delaware native Howard Pyle.

Guests:

Joe Plummer, an actor an teacher who has performed off Broadway and throughout Delaware

Kara Dahl Russell, WSCL Classical music host

Chris Ranck, Delmarva Public Radio producer

Most people don't think about the powers of the County Sheriff.

But in Sussex County, Sheriff Jeff Christopher is taking matters into his own hands as he fights with the local County Council, who has told him his deputies cannot make arrests.

Guests:

Wicomico County, MD Sheriff Mike Lewis

Somerset County, MD Sheriff Robert Jones

Sussex County Sheriff Jeff Christopher

Former sheriff's deputy Margaret Reyes, a local blogger

Plan Maryland

It's an executive order by Governor Martin O'Malley to limit growth and preserve land.

On Maryland's Eastern Shore, it has drawn sharp criticism, including the charge that it potentially limits government control in their planning communities.

Guests:

Richard Hall, Maryland Secretary of Planning

Gail Bartkovich, Wicomico County Council member

This morning, we remember Madeline Perdue.

The first wife of Frank Perdue, she died at the age of 91 last month surrounded by her family at her home in Salisbury.

She met Frank Perdue when both were students at what was then the Salisbury Teacher's College- now Salisbury University.

She helped Frank to build what has become the hall mark poultry business on the Eastern Shore.

Guests:

Jim Perdue, who now heads up his father's business

Missy Mclaughlin, a friend of some 38 years

Lewis Riley, an Eastern Shore fixture, as well as a former Secretary of Agriculture for the State of Maryland

A look at the recent activity in Iowa.

Guests:

Dr. Michael O’Loughlin, chair of Salisbury University’s Political Science Department 

Will Marshall- President of the Progressive Policy Institute

A look back in the year in politics.

Guests:

Mike Pretl with the Wicomico County Democrats

John Barkovitch, former chair of the Wicomico County Republicans

As winter approaches, the news on the homeless is profound.

The new figures from the National Center on Family Homelessness found that 1 out of every 45 children in the country are without a home.  The majority of those children at 7 years or younger.

Guests:

Jim Barnes- administrator at the Christian Shelter

Sister Connie Ladd at The Joseph House

And Brenda Jorden with Salisbury University's Social Work Department

For decades, the Salisbury City Council has been divided into two electoral districts. One is a minority majority district and the other is an at-large district that selects the other four members of the council.

But that could change under redistricting proposals presented by Mayor Jim Ireton.

Guests:

Salisbury City Council Member Shanie Shields, who represents the minority-minority district.

Former Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman.

via tape, former Salisbury City Council Member Rachel Polk, who served from 2000 to 2003.