A partnership between a medical company and a real estate firm to transform a Columbia office park into a health care hub is moving forward with the opening of a combination primary care and urgent care office. Two medical companies run by Premier Medical Management, Centennial Medical Group and First Call Urgent Care, recently opened a 32,000-square-foot office at 6250 Old Dobbin Lane.

State Attorney General Anthony Brown has endorsed U.S. Senate candidate and current U.S. Rep. David Trone and appears in a new campaign ad for the fellow Democrat. “I’ve been in the trenches with him sticking up for fairness and standing up for everyday people,” says Brown, the former lieutenant governor, in the television ad. The Trone campaign said the ad began broadcasting statewide on Wednesday.

A legislative ethics panel has called on an Anne Arundel County lawmaker to apologize to the public, the speaker of the House and other legislative leaders for her involvement in funding requests for a religious organization to which she belongs. The panel further recommended that Del. Shaneka Henson (D-Anne Arundel) not be reassigned to the House Appropriations Committee after what it called an “ongoing practice” to hide her personal and professional relationship with an organization seeking more than $1 million in state bond money.

Recognizing growing community concerns about safety and discipline, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is considering new security and safety tools such as vape and weapons detection systems and mandatory student and staff IDs, according to a community letter from interim Superintendent Monique Felder.

Maryland and Baltimore may jump ahead of states that have waited more than a decade for emergency highway funding, as the federal government swoops in with aid after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The Federal Highway Administration’s emergency relief fund, which reimburses states for expenses to repair or reconstruct roadways after disasters, has a $2.1 billion backlog of projects and only $890 million on hand, according to data obtained by The Washington Post. (Photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

Baltimore County named a new director of its Department of Economic and Workforce Development, about five months after the previous director resigned. The newly appointed director, Jonathan Sachs, will have to be confirmed by the County Council. He comes to Baltimore County government after about 11 months at WUWTA, a health care software company, according to his LinkedIn.

In the halls of power in Annapolis, where political tides ebb and flow with the speed and unpredictability of the Chesapeake Bay itself, a definitive powerful force has emerged. It is a force that has not only shaped the outcomes of the 2024 Maryland Legislative Session but has also cemented its place as the most powerful voice in the state’s political landscape. That force is none other than House Speaker Adrienne Jones.

The University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) has again ranked in the top 10 across the board for public schools of nursing and moved up in all six categories in which the school is ranked in the newly released 2024 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” out of 651 accredited nursing school surveyed.

Officials at the helm of salvage and recovery operations at the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse have called the process a massive undertaking, which is now being highlighted from the perspective of a marine construction and diving company. The owner of Eastern Marine Services, Phil DePalo, has been in business for more than two decades.

A year ago, the developer P. David Bramble closed a real estate deal he calls critical to Baltimore’s future, central to his legacy and more difficult than almost any other project in his real estate portfolio. He’s talking about rowhomes. Two months before his firm MCB Real Estate finalized the $83 million purchase of Harborplace — the twin pavilions along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor — Bramble spent $14.3 million on a deal with a much lower profile.