Allegis Group is reorganizing one of its subsidiaries as Greater Baltimore’s largest private company looks to build on the success of one of its fastest-growing brands. Aston Carter, an Allegis Group subsidiary that provides staffing services for a range of professional focus areas, is being split in half and reorganized under two other subsidiaries. The Aston Carter brand will move under Actalent, a growing subsidiary that specializes in engineering and science, taking some of its services with it.

“We are a neighborhood Italian restaurant. We’re all about using fresh ingredients and just making [food] the way you would make it at home,” Gregorio’s Trattoria owner Greg Kahn said as he prepares to open a new location this year in Park Potomac. The Italian eatery’s new location, which is slated to open in May or June, will be at 12505 Park Potomac Ave., Kahn said. It will be less than two miles from the restaurant’s current Potomac location at 7745 Tuckerman Lane.

For the New Year, the first wish must be for peace for all people in all nations. Here at home, my top political wish is for a much better education for our schoolchildren. That’s no surprise to readers of my columns, but here is what may be a shocker: Not only do our schoolchildren need to be better educated: so do the adults, including elected officials and the public, who have the power to make or break the success of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.

When a family’s money is tight and it is living close to the edge, pushing that family over the brink doesn’t take much. One seemingly simple legal problem can set off cascading events leading to dire consequences, including homelessness. That happened to a family of six on the Eastern Shore that nearly lost its home when hard times hit, putting the members of that family in danger of eviction.

A federal appeals court announced Thursday that it will reconsider a 2016 case challenging Maryland’s handgun qualification law, which the majority of a three-judge panel ruled in November was unconstitutional. The case before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals will be heard en banc, or in front of the full court. According to the court’s order, the case is tentatively scheduled for the oral argument session between March 19 and 22 in Richmond, Virginia.

 

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. is expected to introduce legislation next week that would expand the county’s ability to approve multiple-use developments in certain areas without needing approval from the Baltimore County Council, according to a draft bill obtained by The Baltimore Sun. Olszewski’s bill would amend zoning codes to allow mixed-use projects in manufacturing or business districts that are within the Urban-Rural Demarcation Line and located in “node” areas targeted for redevelopment within the 2030 Master Plan, like aging shopping centers and malls. Nodes are areas close to transit access and major employers.

The Maryland State Board of Education will host a series of virtual town halls to obtain feedback from families, educators, administrators and community members on the State Superintendent of Schools selection process. The town halls will be conducted by executive search firm Hazard, Young and Attea via Zoom on the following dates: Tuesday, Jan. 16 — 9 a.m.; Wednesday, Jan. 17 — 1 p.m.; Thursday, Jan. 18 — 6 p.m.

As Frederick County Public Schools grows faster than any other district in the state, officials are hoping for legislative progress on a persistent sticking point: how schools are funded. Districts receive a certain amount of state funding per student each year. But the state issues that funding based on the district’s enrollment from Sept. 30 of the previous year. So, as FCPS enters next school year, it will only have funding for the number of students who were enrolled in the system on Sept. 30, 2023. Any students enrolled since then will not be accounted for.

 

 

A helpful scheduler from Riggs Distler, the company installing new high-pressure gas lines in my neighborhood for BGE, came to the house the other day and asked a question: Do I want the new gas service regulator placed on the inside or the outside of my house? While that’s the immediate question for me and my neighbors — and one that thousands of BGE customers will likely face over the next 20 years — there’s a larger question looming over the utility’s big investment in new gas lines and regulators: Shouldn’t we be saying goodbye to all that?

Parents and students who attend a virtual learning program rallied outside Baltimore City Public School headquarters Thursday night in protest of the program ending for elementary students. Charm City Virtual — a program started during the coronavirus pandemic that some students and families have continued to use for its flexibility — relies on federal funds and will expire this summer.