Gas Tax, Captain Larry Simns, Mud Blue Sky, National Great Blacks In Wax Museum




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: The House of Delegates has passed a bill that would create a new tax on gasoline, on top of the existing tax, to fund roads and mass transit. Now the debate continues in the Senate. WYPR statehouse reporter Karen Hosler tells us more. Then, Captain Larry Simns was the voice of Maryland’s commercial watermen for forty years … until his death week before last. We talk with Bob Rich, who helped Larry Simns write a book about his life. And, a play about life’s takeoffs and landings. Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Mud Blue Sky" at Center Stage. Plus, this Maryland Day, Tom Hall meets some of the state's most famous African-American figures at Baltimore's National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.