Investing in Maryland is a safe bet, according to a recently released Maryland Economic Development Association study. The January report, completed with the help of Salisbury University’s Business Economic and Community Outreach Network, found every dollar invested in county economic development operations in Maryland yielded an estimated $9.17 in return.
Montgomery County Council members hammered school officials with questions about their handling of employee misconduct allegations, complaining they got a new, less redacted version of the Jackson Lewis report detailing many of the system’s failures on the issue just an hour before the scheduled hearing on Thursday.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to clean up the Bear Creek Superfund site in eastern Baltimore County over the next three years. But residents who live nearby as well as environmentalists are concerned the cleanup project might not work — and could even cause damage. For decades, dangerous chemicals, including cancer-causing PCBs, were dumped into Bear Creek from Bethlehem Steel, which for a time was the largest steel producer in the world.
Conservative radio host Kimberly Klacik is running for Congress again. Klacik filed Thursday for the Republican primary in Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District. “It’s a big decision that I made in the past couple weeks,” Klacik said on social media. “It’s going to be hard work, but you know what I’ve never shyed away from hard work.”
As an avid hiker and bicyclist, Martha Shimkin follows the mantra of “leave no trace” when outside, but she also tries to go one step farther. “I want to go beyond that and say not just ‘leave no trace’ but ‘how do I make it better?’” she said. That could mean picking up some litter or sprucing up a cabin along the trail. Now, as the recently named director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program Office, she hopes to apply that philosophy to restoration efforts.
It can be tempting to think of Baltimore’s burgeoning tech ecosystem as a kind of Jenga tower, fearing that the whole thing will crumble when you pull out one block. Those worries surfaced last week when Wisconsin-based Exact Sciences announced it was closing its Baltimore office, laying off 58 employees. The cancer-diagnostics giant, which employs 6,400 people, bought Thrive Earlier Detection, a Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures spin-out, in a 2020 deal worth a whopping $2.15 billion.
Individually, we adore and pamper our children. We shuttle them from soccer practice to music lessons and then organize their play dates with meticulous fanaticism. Yet collectively, we mistreat America’s children, especially by the standards of other wealthy countries. When we’re formulating policies for children as a whole rather than coddling our own little angels, we fall scandalously short. We prize children in the abstract but as a society tend to ignore their needs.
Quick, describe your local flag. Can’t do it, can you? Oh, Marylanders certainly know their state flag. Like it or not, that flag, with its centuries-old gold-and-black and red-and-white heraldic banners from the Calvert and Crossland families (first combined into a unified coat of arms by Cecil Calvert in the 17th century) stands out in a crowd. None of those difficult-to-tell-apart flags featuring nondescript state seals or local animals (crab silhouette?) floating in a sea of white for the Old Line State.
North Bethesda, Maryland-based hotel franchiser Choice Hotels International has reached an agreement with Tesla that will allow franchise operators to install Tesla Universal electric vehicle charging stations at its hotels, including Radisson, Cambria, Comfort, Country Inn & Suites, Quality Inn and other Choice brands.
The Cecil County Public Schools community gathered by the busload Tuesday night to protest looming budget cuts that many are blaming on County Executive Danielle Hornberger. With massive reductions to programs across the district on the table, a rally for education funding drew what organizers estimate to be over 2,000 people outside the county administration building in Elkton.