The AFRO announced their full slate of endorsements for the 2024 campaign, including Angela Alsobrooks for U.S. Senate, Brandon M. Scott for Baltimore City mayor, Nick Mosby for president of the Baltimore City Council and more.

Amid the ever-changing cannabis industry landscape, MariMed, a seed-to-store operation in Maryland, has received top honors in multiple categories at the 2024 Maryland Cannabis Awards. MariMed’s product, Betty’s Eddies, an all-natural cannabis fruit chew, was named Favorite Edible, and Nature’s Heritage, a flower brand, received top accolades for their Rick Simpson Oil. MariMed celebrated its 10th anniversary, a monumental achievement for a cannabis company.

Attorneys representing the Maryland State Board of Elections are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges voter roll irregularities and other election law violations in the state. Two groups — Maryland Election Integrity LLC and Missouri-based United Sovereign Americans — filed suit in March against the state board for maintaining inaccurate voter registration lists and violating federal election law.

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney (D) announced Tuesday that he is dropping out of next year’s race for Virginia governor and running for lieutenant governor instead. Stoney, who has faced a tough contest against U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) for their party’s gubernatorial nomination, had been calling donors, supporters and others in recent days to say that he would bow out of that race. He made it official with an early-morning news release Tuesday.

Quantum Loophole Inc., the developer of the first master-planned data center community, Monday announced it broke ground on its 600-acre Nature Reserve at the more than 2,100-acre campus, Quantum Frederick. The nature reserve will act as a carbon-sink onsite, enabling operation of the first carbon negative industrial-development of its kind.

Maryland in 2023 stood among states with the highest rates of home foreclosures, and unfortunately, too many homeowners do not know where to turn, or wait too long, to seek help for their financial distress. Working in the Maryland housing market for decades as both a broker and a credit repair specialist, and as someone who has faced foreclosure in the past, I know that the possibility of foreclosure can come with stress, shame and embarrassment.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. Ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that are usually privately made, have become more common on American city streets, and especially so in Baltimore.

As final drafts are being prepared for Washington County’s Fiscal Year 2025 budgets, the proposed capital budget has reduced a bit. Originally proposed at $73.8 million, the newest draft totals $65.8 million. Chief Financial Officer Kelcee Mace told the Board of County Commissioners the change was made in response to their requests and the requests of the departments and agencies affected.

The city of Frederick’s long-range plan for maintaining the city’s infrastructure includes several projects that could affect the future of parking downtown. A committee is expected to provide recommendations in the coming weeks that would affect the future of one project — the demolition of the city’s Church Street parking garage, which would be rebuilt with more spaces.

 

Just hours after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last month, President Joe Biden vowed that the federal government would “move heaven and earth” to build a new bridge fast — and would foot the bill. But many have wondered why taxpayers are on the hook when the Dali, a privately owned shipping vessel nearly twice the size of Baltimore’s tallest building, took the bridge out.