In August 2020, Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for president, promising to “choose a different path.” Instead of governing a country “becoming angrier, less hopeful, more divided,” Biden would help us “to heal, to reform, to unite.” Now, Donald Trump, accepting the Republican nomination four years later, also pledges to unite.

When hyperthermia claims a life, it’s said the body undergoes a horrifying transformation. Initially sweating profusely, the victim quickly stops sweating as their skin becomes hot and dry. Organs fail as the core temperature soars. The brain swells. Muscle tissue breaks down. The heart, strained beyond its limits, eventually succumbs to cardiac arrest.

The long-vacant BGE Pavilion in the Inner Harbor’s Rash Field Park finally has a tenant. Baltimore’s Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved the lease for OneDo Coffee Roasters to take up the 1,156-square-foot space, with an expected opening next spring. The introduction of the Canton-based coffee shop gives visitors of the nearby Maryland Science Center another dining option. It plans to offer hand-crafted coffees and teas, sandwiches and salads.

 

 

One of Greater Baltimore’s largest cybersecurity companies has moved its headquarters to Denver just a year after raising over $190 million in venture capital. Blackpoint Cyber will retain a presence in Columbia focused on research and development. The formerly Howard County-based firm works with third-party companies that remotely manage the day-to-day operations of a company’s internet technology infrastructure.

Aerospace veteran Robert “Kelly” Ortberg becomes Boeing’s new CEO on Thursday with a singular mission: restoring the reputation of a U.S. manufacturing icon. That enormous goal will involve thousands of daily decisions that will determine whether Boeing can earn back the trust of regulators, airlines and the public; end persistent production defects; deliver aircraft on time and consistently to customers large and small; and stop burning cash.

 

The last remnants of Tropical Storm Debby are moving into the D.C. area Thursday, bringing heavy rain and powerful winds until Friday night. Here’s what you need to know. A flood watch is in effect from Thursday evening to Friday night for Fauquier and Loudoun counties in Virginia and Frederick County, Maryland, according to the National Weather Service.

Scott says people caught mistreating their fellow employees will be ‘held accountable’ Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott knows something’s rotten with the Department of Public Works, and it’s not the trash smell coming from the garbage trucks. On Wednesday, five days after a sanitation worker died of heatstroke and a day after labor unions and city councilmen held a news conference to demand changes to DPW’s “toxic culture,” Scott acknowledged something has to change with the beleaguered agency.

Since Baltimore asked residents in December to test their home’s water line for lead and submit the results to the city, nearly 4,500 have done so. Meanwhile, about 173,000 properties still have unknown water service pipe materials, said Paul Sayan, acting bureau chief of water and wastewater for the Baltimore City Department of Public Works.

 

On a rainy Wednesday evening at a public hearing about a proposed public garden — Howard County’s first — there seemed to be an elephant in the room. About a dozen or so people spoke and offered ideas to the county’s garden focus group last month about what native plants they want to see when the garden, to be located on a former plantation along Route 97 in the western part of the county, comes to fruition.

Advocates from both sides of the abortion debate say Vice President Kamala Harris’ sudden emergence as the Democratic presidential nominee has breathed new life into what has been a low-key battle for reproductive freedom in Maryland. The question is whether voters will feel the same on Election Day. “The whole world has changed. Even in Maryland, where we’re safe and we’re working hard to get the amendment, the excitement level is like on steroids.