A huge mixed-use health care development is planned for Montgomery County’s White Oak region. The Baltimore-based MCB Real Estate will break ground next year on a 280-acre mixed-use health care development next to the Food and Drug Administration headquarters. Viva White Oak is approved for 12 million square feet of mixed-use development. It is near the Adventist Health Care White Oak Medical Center, off Cherry Hill Road.
Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of the former president’s historic hush money trial, but the fight over the case is far from over. Now comes the sentencing and the potential for a prison sentence. A lengthy appellate process. And all the while, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee still has to deal with three more criminal cases and a campaign that could see him return to the White House.
Maryland is one of 21 states joining a push by the Biden administration to modernize America’s aging electric grid, which is under pressure from growing demand, a changing power-generation mix that includes lots of wind and solar, and severe weather. The administration, which has set a goal of a carbon-free power sector by 2035, announced Tuesday that the states had joined what it called the “Federal-State Modern Grid Deployment Initiative,” which is intended to “help drive grid adaptation quickly and cost-effectively to meet the challenges and opportunities that the power sector faces.”
Corey Smedley, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich’s nominee for a new county fire chief, says his goal if appointed is to “figure out how to put himself out of business” by preventing disasters. “One of the things that we’re going to do when I first get here is we’re going to dust off [incident] reports and evaluate what have we learned from that?
When we last checked in with Port 44, the all-female development group was making a splash in this canal town with the renovation of venerable buildings on Conococheague and Salisbury streets. Nearly half a dozen businesses had moved in, and seven newly redesigned, upscale apartments were occupied. That was last fall.
On behalf of the dedicated people on the city of Frederick’s Charter Review Committee, I am writing to express our frustration about the delay and disjointed “management” of our report and recommendations from the time it was delivered to our elected leadership on Dec. 1, 2023, to the present. More importantly, perhaps, it is truly disheartening to have certain of our elected officials criticize us in public meetings for purportedly “doing a disservice to the process” by failing to appear and make presentations to explain our intent as to some of our recommendations.
John Sarbanes was talking to reporters from The New York Times this spring, giving a video interview along with other members of Congress leaving office at the end of the year. While the others — including Sarbanes’ Maryland colleague U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin — talked about why Congress is so dysfunctional, the Democrat from Towson didn’t exactly follow the script.
Baltimore has funded only one of four budget requests made to satisfy recommendations issued following a deadly fire on Stricker Street that killed three city firefighters in 2022, however it has made significant progress in tagging unsafe vacant buildings. That update came Thursday during a budget hearing for the city’s Fire Department before the Baltimore City Council.
Seven men sit across the dais — six white and one Black. They’ve been elected to wield government power on behalf of Baltimore County’s 854,000 residents, more than half of whom are women and nearly half Black, brown, Indigenous and other people of color. How could this all-male, overwhelmingly white group truly represent Baltimore County’s rich diversity?
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates made a bold prediction, suggesting the city’s homicide rate could drop below 200 this year. Bates spoke at a budget hearing Thursday morning before the Baltimore City Council Ways and Means Committee, citing some encouraging numbers showing declines in violent crime and increases in prosecutions. Bates said the current pacing for homicide in 2024 is 181.