Have lunch and discuss the day's events with Sheilah Kast.  Lunch is for 2 guests.

Sheilah Kast, host of Maryland Morning, brings wide experience in radio, television and newspapers to WYPR.

She learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she was a Washington correspondent for fifteen years. Her reporting ranged from the White House to Congress to the historic 1991 coup attempt in Moscow, which signaled the end of the Soviet Empire.

Her first public-broadcasting venture was done in association with BusinessWeek magazine in the late 1990s: Sheilah began and hosted a weekly national public television show, "This Week in Business," on which she analyzed breaking developments in business, interviewed business leaders and discussed trends in personal finance.

Public radio listeners have heard her host NPR's Sunday morning magazine, Weekend Edition Sunday, when Liane Hansen is away. She has also substituted for Diane Rehm.

Sheilah's focus during most of her reporting life has been on the economy and workplace, and how they affect people's everyday lives. She began her career at The Washington Star newspaper, where she covered the Maryland and Virginia legislatures, as well as county governments and schools. After electricity rates shot up during the 1970s, she moved to the Star's business staff, to cover utilities, energy and taxes, as well as financial and banking regulation.