The new School of Health Professions at Mount St. Mary’s University is set to open its doors this fall, with the first cohort of students arriving in January 2025. The school will house the university’s first health-focused graduate degree programs: a physician assistant (PA) program and an applied behavioral analysis (ABA) program. It will also be home to a functional pediatric behavioral health clinic, which officials say will be the first of its kind in northern Frederick County.

I asked Sandy Rosenberg, the longtime state delegate, why he thinks voters should give Sheila Dixon, a former Baltimore mayor who left office in disgrace 14 years ago, a second chance at running city government. Answer: Under Mayor Brandon Scott, city agencies have been either slow or unresponsive to community needs and to Rosenberg’s requests for help for constituents.

A controversial bill that would have raised the base minimum wage for tipped workers in Montgomery County was withdrawn by its lead sponsor councilmember Will Jawando (D-At-large) on Tuesday, but similar efforts are still underway in the Maryland General Assembly. “The action to withdraw the bills is in coordination with other regional partners who are advancing similar measures to focus on state policy to support tipped employees,” Jawando said in a statement from his office.

Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman (D) is one of the best-prepared politicians in Maryland. After eight years in the House of Delegates, she took over an 1,100-person agency a year ago with an unfathomably broad portfolio — including being the state’s tax collector and serving on the critically important Board of Public Works — but managed to put her stamp on the department in fairly quick order.

Center Maryland is excited to launch Center Maryland TV on YouTube. Each week we will be bringing you video interviews with leaders from around Maryland. We hope you enjoy today’s episode with Representative Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02).

For most adults living in Maryland, how to get from one place to another — from home to work, for example, or to the grocery store or a doctor’s appointment — isn’t a major concern. Oh, we’ll gripe about gasoline prices (currently hovering around $3.07 per gallon of unleaded regular, roughly 26 cents from one year ago, according to AAA). But the chances are good that we have access to one of the 5 million vehicles registered in the state.

Developer David Tufaro and other members of the Inner Harbor Coalition hope to place a measure on the November ballot blocking the plan by developer P. David Bramble to build two luxury apartment towers along the water at Harborplace. I’m not surprised that they’re also considering legal action to stop the plan. Last Tuesday, Tufaro told The Brew that “there are a lot of potential legal issues that we’re exploring.”

Yes, there is some good news coming from the stranding of the massive Ever Forward container Ship in the upper Chesapeake Bay in March of 2022. Here’s what to know about how it will actually now boost oysters in Maryland. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources will plant about 147 million oyster spat, or juvenile oysters, on 41 acres in Anne Arundel County waters with mitigation funds from the 2022 grounding of the Ever Forward on an upper Chesapeake Bay oyster bar.

Childhood hunger — an issue that impacts more than 33,000 children in Montgomery County, according to Feeding America — drew elected leaders from the county and state levels to Gaithersburg on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for a roundtable discussion. “People wake up, and they don’t know if they’re going to have enough food to eat,” Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando said at the event. “It’s unjust, and it’s wrong.”

As we remember and reflect on the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there are valuable lessons that should give us hope that we can overcome what we face today in a divided and teetering America. If we, like King, truly believe that the words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are meant for all Americans, then zealously embrace them and put them into practice by letting them govern and guide our actions in both our public and private lives.