Maryland labor officials released a report Tuesday concluding that Latina women here earn $1.8 million less in their lifetimes compared with White men doing the same work, one of the largest such earning gaps in the country. Gov. Wes Moore’s administration released the report on Equal Pay Day, which acknowledges how far into the new year a woman must work to earn the same amount a man already earned in the prior one. This year, it’s 72 days.

Former special counsel Robert Hur defended his report and investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified documents in a congressional hearing on the probe. Hur spent more than four hours on Tuesday speaking to members of the House Judiciary Committee. It was his first public comments about his investigation that resulted in no charges against Biden but set off a political firestorm about the president’s age and mental fitness.

I appreciate The Banner taking a deep dive at Harborplace, although I wish it would have happened earlier and before the votes in City Council. I also wish the articles would be more investigative and less conversational. In your article about reaction to plans for the original Harborplace, you accurately describe what happened with the Rouse Pavilions back then and the debate leading up to it. Permeating through the article though, is a false equivalency between the pavilions and the Bramble project.

 

Eli Lilly on Wednesday said Amazon Pharmacy will help send certain prescription drugs, including the red-hot weight loss treatment Zepbound, to patients’ homes through the drugmaker’s new direct-to-consumer program. Starting Wednesday, Amazon Pharmacy can deliver certain drugs from Eli Lilly that are prescribed for obesity, diabetes or migraine to patients who order them from the drugmaker’s direct sales website, according to an email from Eli Lilly.

On Monday, members of the Maryland General Assembly will reach a major milestone of their annual 90-day session, known as “Crossover Day.” Bills that haven’t been favorably voted out of their originating chamber and crossed into the next by this date are less likely to get there, much less to Gov. Wes Moore’s desk. It is an opportune moment to assess the Maryland General Assembly’s collective performance in Annapolis.

When the power goes out, residents want their utilities back as soon as possible. Walking in an area with an outage can be time-consuming and potentially dangerous for crews, especially after a significant weather event. Utility companies operating in Maryland, such as Baltimore Gas & Electric and Potomac Edison, are using drones for infrastructure inspections leading to increased safety for crews, a reduced carbon footprint and faster times inspecting equipment.

Khalil A. Zaied, a jack of many trades, was today named Baltimore’s director of Public Works, an agency with many problems. Last seen as a deputy mayor under Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Zaied will return to city government after a brief stint as public works director for Champaign, Illinois, a city one-sixth of Baltimore’s size. Prior to that, he was a vice president of KCI Technologies, helping supervise Baltimore’s big conduit dig under Greenmount Avenue, and as a manager for El Paso, Texas.

 

Mulch time has commenced in the Baltimore area. You can see it, you can smell it. It’s a sure sign of the approach of spring. On Loch Raven Boulevard the other day, a platoon of workers with shovels and rakes pulled fresh, dark mulch from large trucks. The men worked fast, spreading it around trees along the median and both sides of Loch Raven between Taylor Avenue and Glen Keith Boulevard.

As part of Mercy Health Services/Mercy Medical Center’s ongoing efforts to expand health care services throughout Maryland, the Baltimore-based health care provider has opened Mercy Personal Physicians at Ellicott City, and several Mercy digestive health, liver, obesity and GI cancer specialists will see patients in Fredericksburg. Located at 3290 N. Ridge Road, Suite 220, 2nd floor, Mercy Personal Physicians at Ellicott City features primary care, specialized physician care and a variety of diagnostic and laboratory services.

In the 1970s, two men came together to answer a thorny question: After decades of white flight, neighborhood demolition and the suburbanization of America, how could cities bring people back downtown? One was an architect in Massachusetts who drew inspiration from the casbahs of North Africa and the public squares of Europe. The other was a developer in Maryland who once called Disneyland the “greatest piece of urban design in the United States.”