Dozens of tenants and families of immigrants gathered on Lawyers Mall in front of the Maryland State House for one last rally in hopes that the Maryland Senate moves forward on bills that would protect renters from unjust evictions and unsafe living conditions. About 30 people gathered on a gray and drizzly Tuesday with umbrellas and coats to urge the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee to push two renter protection bills to a vote as soon as possible in the final days of the 2024 session.

Starting and running a Maryland business can be difficult, especially for small business owners and bioinnovation companies. Our state even recently ranked among the worst places to start a business. While Maryland has seen some progress in recent months to reverse this trajectory, such as bringing in new investments from the tech sector, it is vital that Maryland lawmakers not create more difficulties for small businesses and undermine the progress of Maryland’s growing tech and life science industries.

The deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge could rival or beat the maritime industry’s largest-ever financial loss, with insurance claims expected to reach $1 billion or more. “It’s going to be a big claim, and the big number there is the potential cost to rebuild the bridge,” said John A. Miklus, president of the American Institute of Marine Underwriters, in an interview Tuesday, a week after the bridge was struck by the freighter Dali and collapsed, killing six people. “This is one of the largest, most complicated marine claims I can think of.”

A $13 million shortfall in Cecil County’s education budget has pitted its Republican county executive against the district’s superintendent and continued in the form of battling news releases. Cecil County’s school communities have been in an uproar since Superintendent Jeffrey Lawson warned in February that hundreds of staff and programs like band and sports would be cut without additional funding from the county.

I’m something of an expert on grief. I have written and spoken extensively about it, including my memoir about my husband’s death. I even appeared on the “Today” show alongside noted grief expert David Kessler, who co-authored a book with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the creator of the concept of the five stages of grieving. So I’m really good at spotting where a bereft person falls on that spectrum.

Bank of America’s Greater Maryland President Janet Currie says she recently had the opportunity to explore the National Museum of African American History and Culture with students from Coppin State University as part of the Harbor City Chapter of The Links, Incorporated’s Harbor City Links Scholars Program.

 

Harold Coleman, 56, of Reisterstown, has served the public honorably for 15 years as a maintenance worker on Maryland’s bridges. His work for the Maryland Department of Transportation is a source of pride and purpose, along with his extensive ties to his ample community of family and friends. However, Mr. Coleman has two past convictions on his record that continue to hold him back from starting the business he has dreamed of for years.

In 1998, two cousins from different sides of the track, one from East Baltimore and the other from West, were both charged with murder in two separate cases. The 18-year-old from the east side intentionally hunted down a perceived enemy and shot his victim a dozen times for what was later confirmed to be a case of mistaken identity.

Last week’s disastrous collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River after being rammed by a giant container ship five times as long as Baltimore’s Washington Monument is tall in the early morning hours of March 26 shocked the world. It led to the death of a half-dozen men; crippled the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore, putting thousands of jobs in jeopardy; disrupted supply chains; dead-ended the Baltimore Beltway’s eastern half and raised critical maritime safety issues.

President Biden will visit Baltimore on Friday to survey the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, the White House announced Monday, as authorities said they have opened a small channel that will allow limited shipping at the Port of Baltimore for the first time since the disaster. Biden plans to meet with local and state officials and assess the nascent recovery effort on the Patapsco River, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.