Employers promoting jobs in Maryland will need to include salary ranges in ads and postings starting later this year, and experts say the law will help job seekers at the negotiating table with little extra work for employers. Gov. Wes Moore signed a wage transparency bill into law April 25 that will require employers to disclose pay ranges in job postings for positions that will be performed at least partially in Maryland.

This year’s session of the Maryland General Assembly had its share of achievements and disappointments, but it was the failure to pass Senate Bill 29 that should prompt some soul-searching, especially among the leadership of the House of Delegates. SB 29 would have placed a measure on November’s ballot seeking voter approval of a long-overdue constitutional amendment changing the manner in which vacancies in the state Senate and House of Delegates are filled.

Woodsboro Bank is celebrating its 125th anniversary on Wednesday, taking pride in its role as a community bank and looking to the future. The bank’s headquarters can still be found in its original location along Woodsboro’s Main Street. The bank was renting a building at its current site when it was founded in 1899, Steve Heine, the bank’s CEO and president, said. The bank then bought the site and began building its current building in 1900. It was finished in 1901.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s recent announcement to parishioners of the draft plan for how the Catholic Church will be present in Baltimore was understandably upsetting for many, especially those with ties to churches slated to close. This process, known as Seek the City to Come, is much needed and will allow the archdiocese to more efficiently serve the needs of communities where it has an anchoring presence.

Ten of the 22 Democratic candidates running in Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District met Tuesday to discuss race, economic opportunity and the environmental crises facing Maryland’s most vulnerable populations. The seat represents several communities along Anne Arundel County’s eastern border with the Chesapeake Bay that are susceptible to rising sea levels, including Annapolis, Cape Saint Claire and Riviera Beach.

Jazz Lewis wound up at the University of Maryland, not by luck or privilege, but by the strings of a guitar. A Prince George’s County native, now a Maryland House delegate, Lewis said he paid for his college degree with a mix of scholarships and money earned from stints with his church band. As one of the first men in his family to attend college, he said higher education was by no means a given; he earned it.

 

The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office published the office’s first-ever strategic plan on Tuesday aimed at creating a number of tools for victims and witnesses and modernizing aspects of the office. The 23-page plan will guide the agency’s priorities over the next three years and “embodies the office’s commitment to justice, integrity and rebuilding the public’s trust” to ensure fairness, transparency and accountability, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan J. Bates said.

Baltimore Police and city leaders are not in a rush to shut down a pro-Palestinian protest at Johns Hopkins University unless it gets out of control. Police said in a statement that the “City of Baltimore strongly stands with every person’s First Amendment rights.” Protesters set up an encampment and organized rallies on Monday and Tuesday on the Homewood campus.

 

A transportation project along Frederick’s Golden Mile has received a $485,000 federal grant to promote safer pedestrian and bicycle transportation in the city. The multi-modal project along the section of Frederick’s West Patrick Street known as the Golden Mile has received the grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Baltimore City Public Schools is rolling out weapons detection scanners at more high schools this week. This comes after the district piloted the systems at four high schools, including Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High, Patterson High and Carver Vocational-Technical High schools and the Excel Academy at Francis M. Wood High School.