Maryland retroactively approves software contract to provide financial support to port workers

The Maryland Board of Public Works retroactively approved a contract Wednesday that allowed the state to provide financial assistance payments to workers displaced by the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. “That first morning when we were down there with the divers, when we asked them about what they could see, the answer we heard from almost all of the divers was ‘about nothing,’ because they couldn’t see a foot past in front of them because of the amount of debris that was in the water,” Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, said at Wednesday’s meeting in Annapolis.