If you’re flying this summer, your best chance for an on-time flight could be Delta Air Lines, the third largest carrier at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Worried about canceled flights? Alaska Airlines, BWI Airport’s seventh-busiest carrier, is a concern. Apprehensive about getting bumped off your flight? Maybe steer clear of Frontier Airlines, the sixth-biggest carrier locally.

An aging medical center that’s part of a larger development opportunity site in Silver Spring has changed hands. Avison Young announced June 6 the sale of Doctors Medical Park, about 98,000 square feet of 1980s-era, low-rise medical office buildings at 10301 Georgia Ave., for $15.25 million. The property includes two main buildings and a smaller one in between, plus parking lots on 4.8 acres about three-quarters of a mile north of the Red Line’s Forest Glen Metro station.

Maryland ranked in the middle of the pack when it comes to the overall well-being of children, but improvements are still needed, according to a report released Monday. The 2024 KIDS COUNT Data Book ranked Maryland 22nd among states, one place lower than last year and three spots lower than the report from two years ago.

 

After the COVID pandemic, we all had the heebie-jeebies about global supply chains. The threat of shutting them down again — or even crimping them with the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26 — was enough to induce a feeling of dread. You would have been forgiven for thinking, here we go again.

 

National Democrats are offering a financial boost to the Maryland Democratic Party in their effort to elect Angela Alsobrooks to the U.S. Senate. The Democratic National Committee is sending a $250,000 grant to the state party, bringing their total contributions to more than $600,000 for this election cycle. The state party plans to use the money to hire and train organizers and field staff who will reach out to voters.

 

Kat Locke-Jones wants to know if there are any nappers in the room. She’s asking her 36 seventh graders, all stuffed in a small classroom, how they get rid of negative thoughts and feelings after a bad day. Her tonic is apple juice and a nap. One boy says he puts all his emotions into pitching a baseball, leaving everything on the field. Another one of her students escapes with music, and a third says: “I love to write down my feelings.”

 

Before Ohio voters amended their constitution last year to protect abortion rights, the state’s attorney general, an anti-abortion Republican, said that doing so would upend at least 10 state laws limiting abortions. But those laws remain a hurdle and straightforward access to abortions has yet to resume, said Bethany Lewis, executive director of the Preterm abortion clinic in Cleveland. “Legally, what actually happened in practice was not much,” she said.

A week after a state parole-and-probation agent was killed while visiting the home of a registered sex offender he was monitoring, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services announced Friday that it was shaking up its leadership ranks. In a statement, the department said it had named three new interim leaders, including one to lead the parole and probation division, though it did not make clear what had become of those in the jobs previously.

Baltimore appears to be seeing — or hearing — far fewer gunshots in 2024. There is some question about how often the sounds ShotSpotter alerts are actually gunshots, but so far this year the number of ShotSpotter alerts has fallen dramatically. Baltimore’s reduction in homicides has garnered national attention — from the White House, no less.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has plans to return astronauts to the moon this decade, and Maryland is set to play a role in the agency’s progress the next several years both in outer space and on earth. In outer space, the commander of the upcoming Artemis II manned-mission around the moon is a Maryland native.