2-26-13: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake On The City's Financial Future and Author Colum McCann

Summary: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is rolling out a ten-year plan to keep Baltimore financially solvent over the next ten years. The plan includes a trash pick-up fee, city pension reform, and a reduction in the property tax.Today, Sheilah talked to Mayor Rawlings-Blake about the plan, the $585,000 consultant report it's based on, and an incident during a police academy training that ended with a University of Maryland campus police trainee shot in the head.Mayor Rawlings-Blake told Sheilah Kast that the consultants’ work more than paid for itself. Then-Colum McCann is the author of five novels and numerous short stories. He won the 2009 National Book Award and many other international honors for his novel Let the Great World Spin. It tells the stories of several seemingly unconnected New Yorkers in 1974, against the backdrop of a tightrope walker who is suspended between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.