The scaffolding has come off much of Pennsylvania Station, revealing the finely articulated facade that now shines in the March sunlight. It was not always like this. For decades the station’s big windows seemed to be falling apart and the 1911 stone work needed strengthening and repointing. It’s worth a trip to the Station North neighborhood just to take in this visual change that was more than two years in the making.
A disputed affordable housing development in East Towson that has for years divided neighbors over its legality received additional approval this week from a panel of appellate judges to move forward. Developer Red Maple Place Limited, which acquired two parcels of Baltimore County land in 2018 and proposed using one of them to build a four-story, 56-unit affordable housing apartment complex, had its plans affirmed by the three-judge panel of the Appellate Court of Maryland in a decision handed down Thursday.
Two men, holding seemingly identical Glock handguns, stand side-by-side in front of a silhouette-shaped target at an indoor shooting range. They aim their guns and open fire. The man on the left squeezes the trigger 15 times, emptying his clip in a few seconds. The person on the right was able to empty one clip, reload, and empty another in the time it took the other to finish shooting. He only had to squeeze the trigger twice, one time for each magazine. The gun fired so rapidly it sounded like it was jet-fueled.
The Frederick Center hosted a panel on queer history in Frederick Sunday afternoon, with panelists moving a packed room in the C. Burr Artz Public Library to tears. “Thank you for creating the world we have today that [children] can come out at the age of 13, and have their whole teenage years and adolescence ahead of them,” one mom in the audience, who said her child is queer, told the panelists.
In memory of bicyclist Sarah Langenkamp of Bethesda, we must remember that streets serve multimodal transit including zero-emission bicycles, not only cars and trucks. Sarah was hit and killed Aug. 25, 2022, by a driver in a flatbed truck when cycling on protected bike lanes in Montgomery County. Though it is impossible to overlook the tragic deaths that have occurred when pedestrians and bicyclists are struck while in a crosswalk, getting hit and killed or severely injured by a vehicle when cycling on a bike lane never results in a jail sentence which may be incurred when hit on a crosswalk.
Jackson Taylor remembers when a peer passed out from an overdose across from his high school. He knows friends who have struggled with addiction. One has been in and out of rehab. Those experiences help explain why the Rockville High School senior now trains his peers on how to administer naloxone, a lifesaving medication that reverses opioid overdoses. They’re why he carries naloxone at school and why he wants all districts to let their students do the same.
Maryland has always been a leader in protecting our environment. Whether it be agricultural nutrient management, industrial pollution abatement or sustainable land management, the state has set goals to preserve our resources, including our beloved Chesapeake Bay. All Marylanders care about the environment and understand the importance of addressing pollution-related issues. However, we do not think that Maryland policymakers always consider how these ambitious goals may detrimentally impact their constituents during the transition and alter the fabric of our state.
Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) wants to freeze more than 800 county positions, cut agency budgets and draw down rainy-day funds to fix a projected $171 million budget shortfall for the 2025 fiscal year. The county’s hands are tied, she said. Revenue fell short of projections — again. And with each passing year, state mandates for education spending have mounted, prompting Alsobrooks to ask the legislature for more flexibility on school spending this session even as she to seeks to leverage her record on education in appeals to voters.
The University of Maryland College Park on Friday lifted a blanket suspension on most fraternities and sororities and a ban on their social activities involving alcohol and new recruitment. The campus update came as many students left for Spring Break and as the school faced a new lawsuit over the suspension. The university has not detailed exact allegations, but said five chapters remain under investigation.
The former superintendent of public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, is receiving $1.3 million as part of her separation agreement with the school board. Monifa McKnight also agreed not to sue the school board over anything that occurred before she signed the deal. Last month, McKnight said she was stepping down from her post after she “mutually agreed to separate” with the school board.