As we enter the last summer before Sen. Ben Cardin retires from many years of distinguished service in Maryland, I am awash with memories of my short stint working for him in the House of Representatives. I was lucky to have the opportunity to closely observe a political anomaly — that rare political leader who doesn’t shed integrity the higher he climbs.

Quantum Loophole has donated $8,000 to the Frederick Community College Foundation to fund scholarships for two full-time students in the STEM program. The FCC Foundation is a nonprofit that provides scholarship aid to eligible students, according to its website. Quantum Loophole plans to build a campus of data centers on the former site of the Alcoa Eastalco aluminum smelting plant, which is about 2,100 acres, near Adamstown.

 

Young people who live in or near Brooklyn Homes have been “close-mouthed” about last year’s Brooklyn Day block party that ended in gunfire, according to Kandice Golden, a Brooklyn resident who runs a girl’s program called Excellence Esthetics. But those same young people have been vocal about activities they’d want — hula hoops, jump ropes, bubbles and water games — at a healing and wellness event planned for July 2, which will mark one year since the event ended in gunfire that killed two and wounded 28, she said.

Properly attired officers don’t come cheap. Baltimore Police are seeking $8.35 million to buy new uniforms and access specialized tailoring services at next week’s Board of Estimates meeting. Even when spread across three years, the uniform request is five to seven times more than the historical cost of new uniforms. This increase comes despite the decline in sworn positions on the force.

 

If you were alive in 1965, feel free to skip this missive. If you weren’t, you might not grasp why Willie Mays was such a big deal, and even putting it that way doesn’t give the great man his full due. In his prime — and his prime lasted for what seemed forever — he was the best all-around player baseball had ever seen. Was, and maybe still is.

 

The Baltimore Ravens have agreed to a deal with Fanatics that will see the sports merchandise giant take control of the team’s in-stadium stores. The new agreement is an extension of the current deal between the Ravens and Fanatics, which has operated the team’s e-commerce business for more than a decade. The Ravens will become the 14th NFL team to turn both its e-commerce and in-venue operations over to Fanatics.

TikTok disclosed a letter Thursday that accused the Biden administration of engaging in “political demagoguery” during high-stakes negotiations between the government and the company as it sought to relieve concerns about its presence in the U.S. The letter — sent to David Newman, a top official in the Justice Department’s national security division, before President Biden signed the potential TikTok ban into law — was submitted in federal court along with a legal brief supporting the company’s lawsuit against measure.

Eight of the Dali’s crew members will be allowed to depart the ship and return to their home countries following a last-minute deal approved by a federal judge, while the ship is expected to leave Baltimore Friday evening. The agreement approved by a federal judge allows those crew members to depart the ship, which crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge on March 26, and return to their home countries.

Maryland officials hope a simple barcode will help survivors of sexual assault navigate a confusing criminal justice system that historically has often been hostile to those who have endured traumatic and invasive attacks. The lines and numbers, ubiquitous in our lives for tracking packages and making purchases, will be applied to sexual assault evidence kits, enabling better tracking through labs and courts. (Photo: Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Banner)

The Public Service Enterprise Group, an energy company based in New Jersey, plans to build a new 500,000-volt transmission line across parts of Frederick, Baltimore and Carroll counties as part of updates to the regional power grid to accommodate growing power needs. The project, also called the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP), will be about 70 miles long.