Baltimore County’s master plan, more than three years overdue, appears poised for final passage next week. County officials say the plan addresses the possibility that the county will run out of open, developable land within 20 years. “It’s a really important document to give us a guide,” Council Chairman Izzy Patoka said at the council’s meeting Tuesday night. He said he expects a final vote this coming Tuesday.
Former Gov. Larry Hogan has shocked the political world, especially here in Maryland, with the announcement that he changed his mind and does want to be a U.S. senator. A Republican who managed the almost unimaginable feat of being elected twice in this Democratic-dominated state, Hogan is widely seen as the GOP’s best hope to turn a seat that was expected to be safe for Democrats this year, despite the retirement of Sen. Ben Cardin.
The plan for the redevelopment of Harborplace deserves all the attention it’s getting, but even more deserving are the ambitious plans to finally deal with Baltimore’s 13,000-plus vacant homes on the east and west sides of the city. Funded fully and managed wisely, the long-term plan rolled out late last year by Mayor Brandon Scott, the Greater Baltimore Committee and Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development (BUILD) could raise the overall quality of life in the city.
As governor of Maryland, I signed the Electric Customer Choice and Competition Act of 1999. One provision of the wide-ranging law was to allow competitive energy suppliers to sell electricity directly to residential customers. These alternative energy suppliers assured everyone that by creating competition for Maryland’s regulated electric utilities, commercial, small business and residential customers would save on their power bills.
When it comes to the coronavirus, many people have given up on testing. Who knows if the box of COVID tests on your shelf will even work, right? Now there is some new evidence that they do. Recent research from Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of Maryland School of Medicine and others shows that those rapid antigen tests reliably found positives and negatives whether administered at home or in a doctor’s office.
The House of Representatives, by an extremely narrow margin, voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years. The result came one week after the stunning loss House Republicans suffered when they last tried to impeach Mayorkas and GOP defections and an absence sank the initial floor vote, a move Republicans had hoped to use to spotlight the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border.
For Orioles fans, the offseason is normally a time for other interests. During years of inaction through the painful rebuild, the most insignificant of moves were all there was. It appeared this offseason would be much of the same as autumn gave way to winter, but then a span of 48 hours drastically changed the franchise’s trajectory and the ballclub’s outlook in 2024.
Houston-based Group 1 Automotive Inc. has acquired an auto group with a number of dealerships and collision centers in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area. The acquisition of College Park-based RRR Automotive Group adds Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and Kia new vehicle dealerships; one Toyota Certified pre-owned center; and three collision centers to Group 1’s (NYSE: GPI) portfolio.
Within just a few months of living in Piątek, a small town in central Poland, Leah Michaels, M.F.A ’21, intermedia and digital arts, has already traveled to Romania, where many recipients of the Fulbright U.S. Student award placed throughout Europe gathered at a media literacy conference.
The Hagerstown Flying Boxcars hope to be a hit with the community when they begin their inaugural season in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball this year. Meritus Health has joined in the effort, hoping to help make it a grand slam. During a press conference and private event at Seven Ten in Hagerstown on Tuesday evening, Blackie Bowen, of the Flying Boxcars ownership group, announced the team’s naming-rights partnership with Meritus.