Hoar Construction Thursday announced the completion of an 80,000-square-foot industrial building in Glen Burnie, close to the Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport. Hoar served as general contractor on the project, which broke ground in August 2023 and is owned by Chicago-based private real estate investment firm Brennan Investment Group.

Third-graders struggling to read won’t necessarily be held back, according to an updated draft literacy policy from the Maryland State Board of Education. The policy initially mandated that students unable to read at grade level would repeat the third grade, but the revised version allows families to seek a waiver that would permit their students to move into the fourth grade.

The Maryland State Department of Education’s (MSDE) draft literacy policy aims to establish a framework to support students and teachers. Yet, the conversation around this policy has been dominated by the issue of retention. By doing so, we are overlooking its broader intent: creating a robust support system.f

As the 2024-25 academic year begins at Baltimore County Public Schools, drivers should watch out for school buses that are newly installed with safety cameras. BCPS launched a new program Monday, the first day of school, that equipped all school buses with interior and exterior automated cameras to discourage drivers from passing while blinking, red lights are on.

Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska after election officials on Friday confirmed each side had turned in enough signatures. The move makes Nebraska the first state to carry competing abortion amendments on the same ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, launching a national push to have voters decide.

Howard County public schools opened for the new school year Monday with a new superintendent, Bill Barnes, who officially took on his new role July 1. In an interview earlier this month, Barnes said his first 90 days on the job will be characterized by a focus on transportation, budgeting, human resources, learning, strategic vision, implementing the multibillion-dollar Blueprint for Maryland’s Future education reform legislation, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Republican proposals to slash veterans programs have been drawing fire this week from Democratic veterans and delegates, including Maryland Gov. Wes Moore. “I’m excited for the fact that we got one of our own that’s about to be the next vice president of the United States,” Moore told the Veterans and Military Families Council at the Democratic National Convention Thursday.

Maryland is one of two states, with California, to pass a so-called Kids Code law — legislation aimed at providing privacy and other protections to children using online platforms. But a federal appeals court’s decision last week to uphold much of a lower court’s injunction of the California law – on which Maryland’s law is based – is raising new fears about the vulnerability of the Maryland law to court challenge.

The correct response is anger when a carload of white people comes up behind you and your friends at a traffic signal in Annapolis and starts calling you the worst racial slur possible. When someone in that car knocks one of your friends off his bicycle with rocks and then unleashes bear spray, the understandable reaction is to shove that rock right back in that ugly, hateful face.

She’s the sitting vice president who has been in office for 3 1/2 years. She’s also the presidential candidate of just five weeks promising a “new way forward.” Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit for parts of President Joe Biden’s record in rallies staged in front of Air Force Two while casting herself as a new leader who rails against “the politics of the past.”