Members of Frederick County’s state delegation have made 30 requests totaling $27.5 million for capital project funding for fiscal year 2025. State lawmakers file bond bills to get funding for projects in their districts. Money is authorized as part of the state’s capital budget bill. Of the $27.5 million in funds requested by members of the Frederick County delegation as of Thursday evening, $14 million was requested on behalf of the Frederick County government.
Baltimore will create a fellowship program with the city’s two historically Black colleges and universities to encourage city students to choose careers in public service. The program, which Mayor Brandon Scott, a Democrat, announced Thursday, will use $4 million in federal coronavirus relief funds to pay stipends to 25 recent graduates of Coppin State University and Morgan State University. Graduates will work for a variety of city agencies for nine months while receiving professional development training.
As the Howard County Board of Education faces difficult budget choices and searches for a new superintendent, campaigns are underway for the five district seats up for election this year. Eleven candidates filed for the five open seats ahead of the Feb. 9 filing deadline. For the May primary, residents will vote for a school board candidate in each of their respective County Council districts. The two-at-large members, who are elected countywide, are not up for reelection until 2026.
Music Director Jonathon Heyward and acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma will open the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-2025 season in September, the BSO announced Thursday. The classical season, “Music that Resonates,” will open in two back-to-back gala concerts in September at Strathmore in Bethesda and the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. Ma, one of the best-known classical musicians and a 19-time Grammy Award winner, has played cello since he was 4.
Deserved or not, Leakin Park has a reputation. Scores across the country know it as the site where Hae Min Lee was buried in a shallow grave, a case probed years later on the podcast “Serial.” Locals better know Leakin Park as the densely overgrown expanse in their backyards with a host of possibility but also insufficient staffing, illegal dumping and safety concerns. Recently, however, there has been movement to improve Leakin Park’s circumstances, making it more of an asset for the historically disinvested West Baltimore neighborhoods that surround it.
Baltimore’s government-subsidized public housing sites are failing federal inspections at a higher rate than the national average, a Banner analysis of inspection records found. The most recent round of Real Estate Assessment Center Inspections, which the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development uses to assess the quality and safety of housing, revealed a number of health and safety violations inside of Baltimore’s conventional public housing stock, including cockroaches, fire safety hazards and mold and mildew.
At the heart of the latest infighting in the Harford County government, between its executive and a council member, is seven acres of undeveloped, partially wooded land in Bel Air that is a football toss from Interstate 95. The land is what remains of the Cassilly family farm, property that family members have owned since the 1800s. County Executive Bob Cassilly’s great-grandparents were the original tenders of the land.
Maryland’s iconic state capitol in Annapolis went into lockdown about 5 p.m. Thursday amid reports of a security threat. People at the scene were told to lock doors and turn out the lights, and law enforcement from three Annapolis agencies responded. About a half-hour after the lockdown began, Maryland State Police worked to escort out staff and other personnel who had been sheltering within the State House building.
The state of Maryland has about a month to decide whether it will continue to do business with YesCare Corp., a correctional health care provider that has drawn a flurry of lawsuits from currently and formerly incarcerated people over alleged malpractice. Meanwhile, a cascading series of events over the last week in a related Texas bankruptcy case has thrown the viability of YesCare into question.
Episode 74 features Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital President & CEO Beau Higginbotham. Mr. Higginbotham joins the podcast to discuss what it’s like leading one of the premiere hospitals in the Baltimore region, hospital workforce issues and next generation of healthcare.