DCS Corporation Friday announced it has moved its headquarters to southern Maryland to accommodate the growing support to its customers at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The company relocated to 45310 Abell House Lane, Suite 250, in California in St. Mary’s County. From this location, DCS supports its NAVAIR customers providing engineering support. DCS supports NAVAIR’s Air Vehicle Test and Evaluation (AVT&E) Division.

The state Senate and the House of Delegates held double floor sessions and several committee meetings Friday and churned through scores of bills. It was all part of the rush before Monday’s “crossover day” — the deadline for bill to pass out of one chamber of the legislature to guarantee consideration in the other chamber.

Maryland politicians weighed in on the Israeli-Hamas war over the weekend, appearing on major talk shows as concerns seem to be growing about a humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians. U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen spoke in support of a mutual ceasefire between Hamas and Israel and a return of all Israeli hostages on “Face the Nation” Sunday morning — doubling down on a message he has been pushing for months.

Democrats have plenty of things to worry about this fall, but until recently, hanging on to deep-blue Maryland’s opening U.S. Senate seat was not one of those things. That was until Feb. 9, mere hours before the filing deadline, when former governor Larry Hogan — a moderate Republican who left office last year with a stratospheric 73 percent approval rating — declared he was running. Now, “the future control of the United States Senate will come down to Maryland,” says Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat who occupies the state’s other seat.

Across the country, electric demand is growing and could explode if green goals like electrifying home heating, industry and transportation come to fruition. At the same time, many states, utilities and businesses have pledged to decarbonize, helping push older coal and gas power plants that have struggled to stay economically competitive into retirement. Yet in the queues run by the organizations that manage the electric grid in much of the nation, more than 2 million megawatts of potential new power sources, chiefly solar, wind and batteries, are languishing, awaiting interconnection studies.

Since the pandemic, an estimated 181,000 Marylanders have dropped out of the workforce and have not come back. Most of those Marylanders are prime-age workers, especially women. But a pay transparency bill being considered by the state legislature (Senate Bill 525/House Bill 649 requiring employers to list pay ranges on job postings) could be one of the keys to enticing these women back. Polling in late December from the National Women’s Law Center/Morning Consult showed that 53% of Marylanders have refrained from applying to a job opening because it did not list a pay range.

There’s a new state park coming to Annapolis, an unspoiled former horse farm named Holly Beach Farm. It wouldn’t be happening but for construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. “My grandfather, there was nothing he could do to stop the bridge,” Bill Labrot Crossman said. “It was the logical place for it. But it ruined the horse business.” On Wednesday, Gov. Wes Moore agreed to make Maryland the next owner of Holly Beach Farm, almost 300 acres of marshes and coves, coastal woodlands and wide bay views — for a buck.

Electric vehicle charging consultant Blue Whale EV has moved to Hanover and more than doubled its space as the company expands within the growing EV industry. Blue Whale EV cut the ribbon on a roughly 10,000-square-foot facility at 980 Mercantile Drive in Hanover on March 7 that will serve as the company’s new headquarters. The firm relocated from a 4,000-square-foot facility in Savage, and the growing 35-person team has a 7-year commitment on the new space, Chief Marketing Office Scott Swidersky told the Baltimore Business Journal.

The Maryland Cannabis Administration selected 179 businesses out of over 1,500 applications Thursday in a lottery to get the chance to enter the nascent Maryland cannabis industry. The selection process put an end to a process fraught with weeks of delays as the MCA processed over 1,700 applications and lawsuits that threatened to stop the rollout of new cannabis businesses. After the first winners of the lottery were selected, MCA Executive Director William Tilburg smiled as a group of local entrepreneurs got one step closer to opening their own dispensary business.

If you, like The Be. Org, have been in Baltimore for a decade or more, nostalgic and catchy commercials like this one for a now-defunct, Baltimore-based shoe store ought to jog a memory or two. Although that commercial was specific to one shoe store, it speaks volumes about the significance sneakers hold in the local community. This importance is something founders like Tonee Lawson have recognized, as evidenced in her nonprofit The Be. Org’s fifth annual Sneaker Ball fundraising gala on April 6.