A small but passionate group of protesters showed up outside the WYPR station Thursday to support a group of employees there in their quest to unionize.

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The station's employees recently voted on the issue, but the vote is being challenged.

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WYPR's Fraser Smith discusses The Daily Record's story on impact funds and the Pimlico area.

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The excitement of Maryland's casinos, for some, lies in the number of jobs expected—both construction and service jobs.

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All Quiet On The Gubernatorial Election Front?

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Nancy K. Kopp rarely speaks out against Gov. Martin J. O'Malley so when the Maryland treasurer appeared at two hearings last week to oppose a proposed diversion of $100 million from the pension, it caught the attention of the media.

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How will the debate on increasing the minimum wage play out in Annapolis?

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“Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast,” a WYPR-FM news and features program, has won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for “The Lines Between Us."

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For his work to bring about real and lasting reform in Maryland’s largest city, the Open Society Institute-Baltimore recognized WYPR Program Host Dan Rodricks as an “Audacious Individual.”

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In case you missed it this morning, I joined Fraser Smith, senior news analyst for WYPR, on Inside Maryland Politics to discuss the expected decrease in the state’s unemployment insurance tax.

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