At a Timonium bar on Tuesday, the Patriot Club of America kicked off their monthly meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer. The speaker asked the two dozen or so in attendance to pray for former President Donald Trump after a New York jury had just convicted him five days earlier on 34 charges of falsifying business records.
How well is the city of Frederick’s charter review process going? Specific dates help tell the story. The first date — Dec. 1, 2023 — is when the appointed Charter Review Committee submitted its 10-month study, recommending ways to update the city’s charter. Those recommendations went to city officials. The city’s staff said it would spend about two months analyzing the new ideas for legality, cost, equity and more.
As the sun began to rise on Saturday morning, more than 50 volunteers were hard at work putting up signs, handing out bib numbers and assisting with last-minute bicycle repairs. They were preparing for the 15th annual Tour de Frederick, a joint effort of the Boys and Girls Club of Frederick County and the Rotary Club of Carroll Creek — the biggest fundraiser of the year for both nonprofit organizations.
She was there to speak to a crowd about gun violence on National Gun Violence Awareness Day, but the crowd at a Landover community center really lit up when Vice President Kamala Harris revealed her other reason for Friday’s visit. “Today, I proudly endorse Angela Alsobrooks for the United States Senate,” Harris said to the cheers of more than 100 people at the Kentland Community Center. (Photo: William J. Ford via Maryland Matters)
The Baltimore City Council will hold a hearing to examine the city’s response to its unprecedented overdose epidemic in the wake of findings published in recent weeks in a joint investigation by The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times. Councilman Mark Conway, chair of the public safety and government operations committee, plans to introduce legislation on Monday to convene a hearing in late June, though he noted in an interview that he thinks the council will need more than one meeting to cover the issue.
A drive over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge will have anyone wanting to protect its beauty. No one feels this more deeply than the farmers and communities up and down the Bay. For decades, these farmers have been stuck between responding to economic forces to increase production while trying to ensure farm sustainability and prioritize water quality.
Jumbo lump crab cakes weren’t the standard in Baltimore until Nancy Faidley Devine started making them. She traveled the world on behalf of the city, “this Baltimore girl with her crabs,” as her maiden name became almost synonymous with the classic dish. Surrounded by familiar memorabilia and signs from Faidley’s old home — including one saying “Forget Viagra, Eat Oysters”— hanging in a newly constructed stall with bright windows, the 88-year-old reminisced about the legacy of her family’s business as excitement for their latest change hit its peak.
Maryland transportation officials have updated a statewide policy on road safety and transportation access for the first time since it was issued in 2012, expanding the policy’s reach and making it more difficult for projects to be exempt. The new Complete Streets policy — which seeks to place an emphasis on the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and people using mobility devices in the design of roads — will now cover all major state transportation projects.
At the end of April, members of the Hopkins Justice Collective created an encampment at the bottom of what is known on campus as The Beach, the large grassy area in front of the Johns Hopkins library, in protest of the Israeli military action in Gaza and Hopkins’ investment policies. On May 11, faculty and protesters worked out an agreement that saw the protesters potentially gain ground on divestment.
Maryland’s substantial government procurement economy comprises 18% of its gross domestic product and is primed to grow, but Maryland-based businesses aren’t benefiting enough, according to a Drexel University study released Thursday. Like the federal and state governments, Maryland’s local governments, especially its largest jurisdictions such as Baltimore city and Baltimore, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, have their own procurement systems.