U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-8th), whose personal life and political career were incalculably upended by his son’s suicide, is introducing his first major mental health and suicide prevention legislation since Tommy Raskin died on Dec. 31, 2020, at the age of 25. The Stabilization To Prevent (STOP) Suicide Act would create a grant program at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to expand the use of evidence-based models for stabilizing individuals with serious thoughts of suicide.

On a warm late-summer afternoon at the GameOn bar+arcade in Columbia, ‘90s music was bumping while roughly 100 young local residents wearing white-and-blue name tags mingled and played games like pinball and skeeball. They were there for a monthly event hosted by Columbia Social, a local organization that builds connections among the planned community’s young professionals.

Greater Baltimore’s hiring outlook is slumping with the rest of the country’s, but one industry is standing strong amid the slowdown. The Baltimore metro’s overall hiring picture is the third worst among 55 U.S. metro areas with a population of at least 1 million, according to new data from payroll giant ADP, which identified the nation’s hottest hiring markets based on pay growth, starting wages and hiring rate for 15 million workers.