A small milestone passed recently in Baltimore County. Hopefully, at least for most families, it went unnoticed. As of now, any driver who fails to stop for a stopped school bus in the county that has activated its flashing lights will be issued a $250 ticket. Well, at least in most instances. Prior to the start of the school year, automated cameras were installed on 80% of the vehicles in the Baltimore County Public Schools fleet.

Every month, families across Maryland brace themselves for the familiar frustration of paying their electric and gas bills. Over the last few years, these bills have climbed significantly, often outpacing inflation. Meanwhile, utility companies have led consumers to believe their hard-earned money is needed to make the electric grid more reliable and robust.

Under Armour’s long-awaited move into a new global headquarters in South Baltimore will begin next week, President and CEO Kevin Plank told investors Thursday morning. The company’s arrival to the five-story, 280,000-square-foot building is a watershed moment for the Baltimore Peninsula, the ambitious development project that’s been almost a decade in the making.

Thousands of travelers are getting preventative health readings at the airport. LifeBridge Health launched its “Total Health Kiosk” at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to bring medical resources into the community. The kiosk, which is located in Concourse A between gates A9-11, offers travelers blood-pressure readings among other stats. Since it debuted over the summer, more than 2,700 people have used it.

Baltimore’s Metro subway line will be out of service this weekend as the Maryland Transit Administration continues tests of a new train control system, the agency has announced. All 14 stations between Owings Mills and the Johns Hopkins Hospital will close at 8 p.m. Friday and reopen at 4 a.m. Monday. The MTA will run shuttle buses between Metro stops for riders who would otherwise take the train.

The Frederick biotechnology company BioFactura has announced $7.8 million in new contract activations to study a treatment for a potential smallpox outbreak. The company has gotten contract option activations worth $7.8 million by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, according to a news release Tuesday.

Impact fee experts told Harford County officials that proposed fee increases for developers are a step in the right direction, but will not fully cover the cost of school infrastructure needed for student population growth from new development. Impact fees are one-time fees paid to the county by developers building new residential structures and can only be used to fund school site acquisition, school construction or school renovations.

The election of a woman president would have been the final infiltration, the last incursion into the tribal-magic male inner circle. You could call it a busting of the hardest glass ceiling. You could call it the ultimate wresting of control of the clicker, the thermostat and the wheel. Of course, one pantsuit in the Oval Office would hardly have been compensation for the whole imbalance, every crummy dollar-and-cents difference, or sexist exclusion.

After more than a year on the campaign trail, Congresswoman-elect Sarah Elfreth is ready for the real work to begin. Elfreth, a Democratic state senator who represents Annapolis and southern Anne Arundel County, recalled feeling a “huge sense of relief” Tuesday night when she realized she had won the race for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes parts of Anne Arundel and Carroll counties and all of Howard County.

No, Maryland is not about to flip from blue to red. Vice President Kamala Harris carried the state by more than 20 points, and Democrats held the open U.S. Senate seat and were on the way to retaining their 7-1 advantage in the state’s U.S. House delegation — their top political priorities this year. They also waded into local school board elections for the first time in recent memory and fared pretty well.