ALT Neil King Jr. is a former national political reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal. He was deeply involved in the coverage of 9/11 that won the Journal the Pulitzer Prize. He has also written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications. "American Ramble" is his first book. A Colorado native, he lives in Washington, D.C (photo/cover art credit Mariner Books/HarperCollins Publishers)

ALT View northwest across a farm from Maryland State Route 27 (Manchester Road) just north of Sullivan Road in Cranberry, Carroll County, Maryland. (photo by Famartin via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)

ALT Joseph Bartenfelder is the former Maryland Agriculture Secretary. A Democrat, he served an 8-year term (2015-2023) under Republican Governor Larry Hogan. Bartenfelder was succeeded in the post by Gov. Wes Moore's nominee, Kevin Atticks. Since 1978, Bartenfelder has managed his family's fruit and vegetable farms in Fullerton and Preston, MD. (MD Dept of Agriculture photo)

ALT J. Antonio Rodriguez (left) and Hannah Whitley as Orpheus and Eurydice, in the touring company production of "Hadestown" at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. (Photo by T Charles Erickson)

ALT Neil King Jr. is a former national political reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal. He was deeply involved in the coverage of 9/11 that won the Journal the Pulitzer Prize. He has also written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications. "American Ramble" is his first book. A Colorado native, he lives in Washington, D.C (photo/cover art credit Mariner Books/HarperCollins Publishers)

ALT View west along U.S. Route 40 Alternate (National Pike) from Interstate 68 and U.S. Route 40 (National Freeway) just west of Exit 29 in Avilton, Garrett County, Maryland. (photo by Famartin_via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)

ALT Joseph Bartenfelder is the former Maryland Agriculture Secretary. A Democrat, he served an 8-year term (2015-2023) under Republican Governor Larry Hogan. Bartenfelder was succeeded in the post in January by Gov. Wes Moore's nominee, Kevin Atticks. Since 1978, Bartenfelder has managed his family's fruit and vegetable farms in Fullerton and Preston, MD. (MD Dept of Agriculture photo)

ALT Shamiah Kerney is Chief Recovery Officer in Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott's Office of Recovery Programs, where she oversees the administration of the $641 million the city received under the federal government's 2021 American Rescue Program Act. (photo credit: Mayor's Office of Recovery Programs)

ALT The MD Attorney General's Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was released, in intertim form, on April 5, 2023. It is the first of a series of planned reports on the AG's probes of child sexual abuse at Catholic institutions in the region, including the archdioceses of Wilmington, Delaware and Washington, DC. (Office of the MD Attorney-General)

ALT Maryland Delegate Elizabeth Embry (D., Dist. 43) is a former Assistant MD Attorney-General and prosecutor who served as the lead investigator and author of the report on the Maryland Attorney-General's 4-year probe of child sex abuse at the Baltimore Archdiocese. The interim report was released April 5. (report image credit OAG Maryland; Embry image courtesy City Delegation video)

ALT Shamiah Kerney is Chief Recovery Officer in Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott's Office of Recovery Programs, where she oversees the administration, through an application process, of federal and state COVID recovery funds. Those funds include the $641 million the city received under the federal government's 2021 American Rescue Program Act. (photo credit: Mayor's Office of Recovery Programs)

ALT The MD Attorney General's Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore was released, in intertim form, on April 5, 2023. It is the first of a series of planned reports on the AG's probes of child sexual abuse at Catholic institutions in the region, including the archdioceses of Wilmington, Delaware and Washington, DC. (Office of the MD Attorney-General)

ALT Shamiah Kerney is Chief Recovery Officer in Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott's Office of Recovery Programs, where she oversees the administration, through an application process, of federal and state COVID recovery funds. Those funds include the $641 million the city received under the federal government's 2021 American Rescue Program Act. (photo credit: Mayor's Office of Recovery Programs)

ALT The iconic cupola of the Maryland State House in Annapolis. The historic eighteenth-century building houses the offices of the Governor and Lt. Governor, and the chambers of the General Assembly, including the Maryland Senate and the House of Delegates. (photo credit: WYPR)

ALT Josh Kurtz is the founding editor of Maryland Matters, an independent online journal that covers Maryland politics and government news. (credit Maryland Matters)

ALT Matt Bush is news director and state politics reporter with WYPR News.(courtesy photo)

ALT Maryland's State House in Annapolis houses the offices of the Governor and Lt. Governor, and the chambers of the General Assembly, including the Maryland Senate and the House of Delegates. (photo credit Office of the Senate President)

ALT The iconic cupola of the Maryland State House in Annapolis. The historic eighteenth-century building houses the offices of the Governor and Lt. Governor, and the chambers of the General Assembly, including the Maryland Senate and the House of Delegates. (photo credit: WYPR)

ALT Josh Kurtz is the founding editor of Maryland Matters, an independent online journal that covers Maryland politics and government news. (credit Maryland Matters)

ALT Matt Bush is news director and state politics reporter with WYPR News.(courtesy photo)

ALT Novelist Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her first novel, "When the Emperor Was Divine," won the 2003 Asian American Literary Award. Her second novel, "The Buddha in the Attic," won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her new novel, "The Swimmers," was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. (photo by Jean-Luc Bertini)

ALT Novelist Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her first novel, "When the Emperor Was Divine," won the 2003 Asian American Literary Award. Her second novel, "The Buddha in the Attic," won the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her new novel, "The Swimmers," was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. (photo by Jean-Luc Bertini)

ALT Twana Omer in the Shakespeare Theatre Company/Woolly Mammoth Theater co-production of "The Jungle." (Photo Credit: Teddy Wolff)