Construction has begun on the next phase of Ellicott City’s Safe and Sound flood mitigation plan, an 18-foot tunnel that will divert 26,000 gallons of water per second from the West End to the Patapsco River. The $141.5 million Extended North Tunnel is considered not only the focal point of the plan, but it is the largest public project in Howard County’s history.

Brandon Chasen is one of most dominant players in Baltimore real estate. His namesake company has developed boutique apartment buildings in Fells Point and is overhauling historic properties like the old Meyer Seed Co. warehouse and the One Calvert Plaza skyscraper downtown. The 38-year-old Potomac native, who leads the firm with his best friend from prep school, has made waves for his embrace of a luxury lifestyle: penthouse suites, designer clothes and yachts. His ambitions grew to include what he said would be a $100 million investment in projects across the country.

It’s past time to shed light on the dramatic increases in rates that many Marylanders are paying utilities to deliver their electricity and gas. Rate hikes have been fueled by aggressive and highly profitable capital spending by many of the state’s largest gas and electric utilities — spending that has been super-charged by state law and Maryland Public Service Commission decisions.

In the District of Columbia, a lie about a townhouse will cost the owner $1.8 million. The house is a former brick beauty with a corner turret, built while William McKinley was president, at 10th and C Streets NE. According to the district’s top attorney, the owner claimed for more than a decade that the house was occupied when, in fact, it was vacant and in disrepair.

 

David Stein, a veteran math teacher at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the president-elect of the Montgomery County Education Association and said incoming school superintendent Thomas Taylor has “a big job” ahead of him. Taylor’s first task should include tackling a “trust deficit,” said Stein, explaining that relations between former leadership at the central office of Montgomery County Public Schools, teachers and the public have been strained over the past year.

In Montgomery County, where incubator spaces are in high demand and existing facilities often have to turn away new entrepreneurs and startups, a new opportunity has emerged. Amador Bioscience’s recently announced incubator space in Germantown promises to help address this critical need, offering fledgling life sciences companies the space, resources and support they require to develop their projects beyond initial concepts.

Many child care centers in Baltimore tend to cater to single mothers, requiring the center operators, often based in the neighborhood, to provide ample doses of empathy and flexibility to support young families. “You have the single parent [and the] other parent is either locked up or incarcerated,” said Yvonne Turner, who owns Old Mother Hubbard’s Child Care Center. “They’re trying to make ends meet.”

Andrew Banasik wants to repaint his new office from a peachy-orange color to white. But personalizing the office is low on his to-do list. Sitting on the corner of Banasik’s partially assembled desk − he’s waiting on the delivery of a few office necessities − is a stack of books Banasik is reading. The stack is eight or nine books high and ranges from stories of enslaved people to battlefield farmstead guides, all about the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862.

 

As some D.C. leaders continue their push to bring the Washington Commanders back to the District, there is growing uncertainty about the city’s chances of regaining control of the RFK site for a football stadium. For the Commanders to consider leaving their FedEx Field home in Prince George’s County to return to their RFK roots in D.C., they will need Congress to clear the way by approving legislation giving long term control of the site to D.C. government.

The Dali — the cargo ship that collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, leading to its collapse on March 26 — finally left Baltimore Monday on its way to port in Norfolk, Virginia. Traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was temporarily suspended late Monday morning by the Maryland Transportation Authority “out of an abundance of caution,” as the 984-foot marine vessel Dali passed beneath, the authority said.