David Trone knows what critics are saying about him. The 68-year-old Montgomery County businessman has heard the exhortations to step aside and let Angela Alsobrooks become the Democratic nominee for a rare open U.S. Senate seat in Maryland — setting her up to be the first Black woman to hold that office. He knows some voters wonder whether he, a moderate Democrat first elected to Congress in 2019 to represent a district that includes conservative Western Maryland, will stand up for abortion rights as strongly as a woman would — especially when Alsobrooks, a single mother, speaks of her daughter losing rights she holds dear.

Staff at the Maryland Department of Health and related agencies said at a recent Maryland Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting that they’re going to have a “busy” interim period as they work to conduct over a dozen new reports and studies prompted by bills that came out of the 2024 legislative session. “A lot of those bills that ended up passing did have a lot of reports as their main components,” Chris Coats, a health policy analyst with the Maryland Department of Health, said Thursday.

For Baltimoreans of a certain age, the former Greyhound bus station on Howard Street is a place that triggers memories – as a starting point for distant travels, the first stop for visitors arriving in town, the only downtown landmark with illuminated dogs on the side of the building. For U. S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, it was a place to get a job.