Roughly Speaking

Maryland vineyards produced more than 460,000 gallons of wine in the 2016 fiscal year, according to data from the state comptroller. That reflects some $47 million in sales. If you were not paying attention — and looking to France or California for wine — you might have missed the fact that the Free State now has 70 wineries, many of them producing outstanding products, from reds and whites to hard cider, mead and sangria. Kevin Atticks, executive director of the Maryland Wineries Association, helps us catch up on the state's wine industry, including three that opened in 2017, with a quick and breezy tour of family-owned vineyards from the Eastern Shore to Western Maryland. For more information about the state's wineries, visit marylandwine.com.Links:http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2012/10/harvest-time-at-black-ankle-winery/http://marylandwine.com

1:32: The weekly book recommendation from Paula Gallagher: A memoir, ----The Glass Eye,---- by Jeannie Vanasco, an assistant professor of English at Towson University.3:56: American culture commentator Sheri Parks discusses GQ's selection of quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the magazine's Citizen of the Year, and the modern meaning of masculinity.17:08: Dan visits the busy kitchen of Gertrude's restaurant in the Baltimore Museum of Art and gets some Thanksgiving recipes from its owner, John Shields.Links:http://www.jeannievanasco.com/author.htmlhttps://www.towson.edu/cla/departments/english/facultystaff/bvanasco.htmlhttps://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-cover-men-of-the-yearhttp://www.bayweekly.com/articles/cooking/article/chesapeake-thanksgiving

We are at a point where we have to turn back. The people who still care about this city have to draw a line, and say the violence has gone far enough, and we have to do something. It is a huge challenge, because the causes of the crime and violence run so deep. All of this means reaching deeper, trying harder, having empathy, offering a helping hand to people who need to get away from drugs and guns. It means supporting police, of course, and giving the leadership of the city a chance to carry out its strategies. But it also means, for each of us, not giving up. There are many angels across this city, and we have to gather them and build a force for good. It can be done. It has to be done. I don’t think we have any other choice.

4:02: Mayor Catherine Pugh, who last week declared crime out of control in Baltimore, talks about the need for more police on the street and what her administration is doing about that. The mayor objected to the suggestion, in Dan Rodricks' Wednesday column, that she was slow to put together a crime-fight strategy. Today, she talks about her plan to reduce violence across the city. The interview was recorded before the Wednesday afternoon shooting of a city police detective.23:19: Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking book critic, recommends the new novel by Louise Erdrich, ----Future Home of the Living God,---- which, Gallagher says, is bound to invite comparison's with Margaret Atwood's ----The Handmaid's Tale.----27:18: Allison Galbraith wants to be one of the few millennials in Congress, so the 34-year-old Harford County Democrat is running for her party's nomination in Maryland's First congressional district. Galbraith says she's running because of incumbent Republican Andy Har

With the White House vowing to roll back government regulation of all sorts of industries, we take a look at how things can go terribly wrong when deregulation trumps worker and food safety. The U.S. poultry industry has been lobbying the Trump administration to allow for faster speeds for the processing of chicken, something the Obama administration’s agriculture department felt was needed to limit injuries to workers and the chances of food contamination. Today, a look back at a horrific industrial disaster in a chicken-processing plant in North Carolina in 1991 with Bryant Simon, a professor of history at Temple University and author of “The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives,” published by The New Press.Links:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/another-obama-decision-reversed-now-it-s-about-food-safety-n810296http://thenewpress.com/books/hamlet-fire

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference underway in Germany, dire warnings are being issued about the potential that tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis in history. According to The Guardian, US military and security experts say the number of climate refugees will dwarf those that have fled the civil war in Syria, creating huge humanitarian challenges for Europe and the West. In this episode: Dan speaks with the co-authors of “Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century,” published by the Indiana University Press. Denise Robbins is communications director for Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and Jack Wennersten is professor emeritus of environmental history at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and the author of several books about the Chesapeake region.Links:http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-jerry-brown-climate-change-20171108-story.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com

In another in a series of interviews with candidates for governor of Maryland, Dan speaks with Democrat Kevin Kamenetz. The 59-year-old Baltimore County executive says Maryland under Gov. Larry Hogan is “standing still” on public education, mass transit and economic development, and needs a more progressive leader. Kamenetz was elected Baltimore County executive in 2010 and re-elected to that office in 2014. He is the current President of the Maryland Association of Counties and is a past president of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council. You can hear earlier interviews with other candidates for governor by visiting a special page of the Roughly Speaking archives. We’ll be interviewing more candidates in the weeks and months ahead. Maryland’s 2018 primary election takes place on June 26.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks/bal-roughly-speaking-2018-gubernatorial-candidates-storygallery.html

Justin Fenton, the Sun's criminal justice reporter, took a deep look at the Baltimore court where deals are made, breaking through the "white noise" of bench conferences to hear how prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge work out plea bargains of criminal cases.Our favorite tech-splainer, Sean Gallagher, Baltimore-based IT and national security editor for Ars Technica, is back, this time to explain how Twitter and Facebook were used by Russian operatives in an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-baltimore-plea-bargains-peters-20171023-htmlstory.htmlhttps://arstechnica.com/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/twitter-drops-hammer-and-sickle-on-rt-sputnik-ad-buys-over-election-shenanigans/

Jonathan Eig spent four years researching and writing his 623-page biography of the greatest heavyweight fighter of all time, Muhammad Ali. In today's episode, Eig talks about Ali's private and public struggles, including his willingness to go to prison over his opposition to the Vietnam War, a decision that forced him out of the ring in his prime. Eig also discusses Ali's comeback, his "Rope-A-Dope" boxing strategy, and his legacy. Eig's book is, "Ali: A Life," just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Links:http://www.alialife.com/

1:39: Erin Cox, The Sun's State House bureau chief, talks about the Democratic candidates lining up for the 2018 primary in the hopes of challenging incumbent Republican Larry Hogan.21:31: Heather Mizeur, the liberal Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for the gubernatorial nomination in 2014, has a new project: MizMaryland: Soul Force Politics. After retreating to her farm on the Eastern Shore for more than two years, Mizeur has re-emerged with her new organization, with a goal of bridging the political divisions, a daunting task in the time of Donald Trump. The project, the subject of a recent story by Erin Cox, involves a blog, a podcast and training camps for women interested in civic engagement.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-democrats-court-teacher-endorsement-20171021-story.htmlhttps://mizmaryland.org/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-mizeur-soul-force-politics-20171010-story.html

Our Halloween 2017 special: A sampling of music from horror films with Terence Hannum, a musician and visual artist who just loves this stuff. Terence Hannum is the originator of the "Dead Air" podcast, all about music that gives us the creeps. This year, for Halloween, Hannum is hosting a radio version of "Dead Air" on the Loyola University Maryland station. Hannum pays tribute to three big names in horror movie-making that landed in the obituary columns this year: Tobe Hooper, director of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre;” Umberto Lenzi, the Italian master of horror; and George A. Romero, who produced “Night of the Living Dead.” And 2017 saw a surprising new director of the horror genre — Jordan Peele. His low-budget film, "Get Out," was critically acclaimed and earned more than $250 million at the box office. Terence Hannum is among those who regard "Get Out" as a great movie, and with a great score.You can hear Hannum's "Dead Air" at midnight and at 10 p.m. on Oct. 31 via WLOY, the Loyola radio station (1620

David Tanis, an accomplished chef and cookbook author who writes the City Kitchen column in the food section of the New York Times, loves poking around farmers markets. He has produced an excellent new cookbook called "Market Cooking" — that is, looking for the best your local market has to offer, then taking that home and applying a simple but inspired recipe. "Market Cooking" has 225 recipes and excellent photos. David Tanis has cooked from California to France; he was chef at Chez Panisse in Berkeley for nearly 25 years. Today, a conversation with David about cooking from the farmer's market, and we’ll hear some excerpts from a few of his recipes.Links:http://davidtanis.com/book/david-tanis-market-cooking/

Those involved in publishing and marketing CNN commentator Van Jones’ new book were tempted to call it "Whitelash," using the term he coined to described the force that put Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office. But, instead, the book is called "Beyond the Messy Truth," a reference to Van Jones’s recurring primetime special, "The Messy Truth." The subtitle of the book is key: "How We Came Apart, How We Come Together." Jones offers a challenge to everyone opposed to Trump, including a growing number of Republicans, to acknowledge that the president is a divisive distraction from the nation’s most important business and work toward common ground. There are big problems facing the country, and it’s hard to find agreement on some of those. But, as the CNN political commentator outlines in his latest book, there are places where compromise and solutions are possible.Links:http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/van-jones-results-disappointment-cnntv/index.htmlhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561176/beyond-the-

Kevin Kamenetz will be serving his final year as Baltimore County executive in 2018. He’s announced that he will run for governor of Maryland in the June Democratic primary. Kamenetz will be a guest on Roughly Speaking in the coming weeks. Among those hoping to succeed him as Baltimore County executive is John Olszewski Jr., a former school teacher and state delegate from Dundalk. In another in our series of interviews of candidates for office in 2018, Olszewski, known as Johnny O., talks about growing up on the east side, his professional career, and his ambitions for the county if elected its 13th executive.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-olszewski-runs-20170626-story.html

Julie Lythcott-Haims has written a powerful memoir of poetic prose about growing up as the daughter of a white mother and African-American father. A former Stanford dean who lives and writes in California, Lythcott-Haims describes what she calls the micro-aggressions and blunt insults she experienced growing up in largely white communities. She reads excerpts from her new book, "Real American," including one about a white Baltimore police officer who married a black woman. She also talks about Donald J. Trump, Colin Kaepernick and the National Football League.Links:https://www.julielythcotthaims.com/

1:26: Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian, recommends, "Manhattan Beach," a new novel from Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for, "A Visit From The Goon Squad."4:21: Dani McClain, a contributing writer for The Nation, reports that, despite being relatively quiet and not making much news, the Black Lives Matter movement is alive and well and, in some cities, getting involved in electoral politics.18:30: Sheri Parks, culture commentator and associate dean in American studies at the University of Maryland, discusses the fallout from the\u160\uHarvey Weinstein scandal, and whether it could mean, as Rolling Stone suggests, real change in the way powerful men treat the women around them.Links:http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-manhattan-beach-jennifer-egan-1004-20171003-story.htmlhttps://www.thenation.com/article/can-black-lives-matter-win-in-the-age-of-trump/http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-weinstein-investigation-20171016-story.htmlhttp://www

Is Donald Trump a despot? Could any American president become an authoritarian under our system of checks and balances? Brian Klaas, an expert on dictators, doesn't think so, but he worries about it and thinks other Americans should, too. Klaas, an American based in London, is a prolific political commentator. He is a student of the world's worst regimes, and comments frequently on threats to democracy around the globe. Klaas is a fellow in comparative politics at the London School of Economics and the author of, "The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy," newly published by Skyhorse.

As Maryland health insurance officials scramble to get the word out about open enrollment starting Nov. 1, they and other state regulators are facing a big messaging challenge -- how to convince the public to buy insurance when the president does everything in his power to undermine Obamacare and create marketplace chaos.On today's show: Expert explanations and analysis of President Trump's executive order to cut federal subsidies that lower the cost of deductibles for lower-income people insured under the Affordable Care Act. And Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh calls Trump's action to end the subsidies 'perverse' and 'irrational.'Our guests:• Jonathan Weiner, professor in health care policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.• Jay Hancock, senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News.• Brian Frosh, Maryland attorney general, who has joined other state attorneys general in suing the administration over ACA funding.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-obamacare-marketing-2017

On today's show: Lalo Alcaraz, syndicated editorial cartoonist and creator of La Cucaracha, the politically-themed Latino comic strip; Paula Gallagher, book critic and Baltimore County librarian.A book based on a podcast: Paula Gallagher's weekly book recommendation: "Waiting For the Punch: Words To Live By From The WTF Podcast," by Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald.Cartooning in the time of Trump: Lalo Alcaraz created La Cucaracha 14 years ago, the first nationally syndicated daily comic strip that dealt with Latino political and cultural issues. He also produces editorial cartoons, many of them focused on immigration, Mexican-American life, and Donald J. Trump. On today's show, Alcaraz talks about cartooning in the Trump era and his recent work as a consultant on the upcoming Disney-Pixar film, "Coco," based on the Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead.Links:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33898867-waiting-for-the-punchhttp://www.gocomics.com/lacucarachahttp://www.gocomics.com/laloalcarazhttp://www.cartoon

In the latest in a series of conversations with candidates for governor of Maryland, Rushern Baker talks about his life before entering politics and his career path since then — as a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates and as the Prince George's County executive since 2010, following a major corruption scandal sent his predecessor to federal prison. In talking about his bid to challenge to the incumbent governor, Republican Larry Hogan, Baker says he would focus on economic development and job creation, revive the Red Line light rail project in Baltimore and keep state funding the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks/bal-roughly-speaking-2018-gubernatorial-candidates-storygallery.htmlhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-baker-governor-20170620-story.htmlhttps://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/1048/Transforming-Neighborhoods-Initiative-TN