U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said Monday he would back U.S. Rep. David Trone in Maryland’s Senate race next year — lending Trone the support of one of the state’s longest-tenured congressmen while three others in the mostly Democratic eight-member delegation have endorsed Angela Alsobrooks. Ruppersberger, a former Baltimore County executive who was first elected to the House in 2002, is the first major Democratic official in the Baltimore area — or across the state — to endorse Trone in the May 14 primary.

When parents fall on hard times and find their salary is not enough to provide for their children, they may be able to get help from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to keep kids fed and housed while they work to improve their economic situation. But The Maryland Center for Economic Policy, a progressive nonprofit research and analysis organization, claims that the anti-poverty federal program does not currently sufficiently lift families out of their low-income economic status, and may even perpetuate negative stereotypes of people on welfare.

 

The Local Oyster is closing Saturday, founder Nick Schauman said Monday afternoon. Schauman started setting up his roving oyster bar at festivals and markets in 2013 and opened the first permanent Local Oyster location inside Mount Vernon Marketplace in 2015. The Locust Point location opened in September 2022 as the first standalone location for the restaurant specializing in Maryland seafood and local beers.

Citing “the sheer volume of sexually explicit discussions and situations,” Montgomery County Public Schools removed a book from high school libraries on Oct. 11, according to documents obtained by MoCo360 from a public records request. The book, “Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts),” is a fiction novel by Lev A.C. Rosen about a gay high schooler who writes an online sex column for other LGBTQ+ teens. As part of the libraries’ “free-choice reading” section, it is not part of specific class curriculums.

 

A 19th-century Baltimore tunnel and four Maryland bridges over 100 years old are set for high-speed upgrades. President Joe Biden outlined $16.4 billion in federal funding Monday for 25 passenger rail projects along Amtrak’s Northeast corridor, including $7 billion for four projects in Maryland — an electrification replacement for the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, the construction of bridges in Baltimore, Harford and Cecil counties, and a major face-lift for Penn Station in Baltimore.

This is the first in an occasional series on the 2023 election for Congress in Maryland Sarah Elfreth eased into the dimly lit, crowded interior of the Eastport Democratic Club just as The Leftovers were finishing their Wednesday night set. Michael Hughes, an affable MC who reminds members to tip the bands and bartenders generously, stepped in front of the mic and apologized for what he was about to say.

As the afterglow from the Baltimore Orioles’ marvelous season subsides and scrutiny of the proposed stadium deal between the Orioles and the state intensifies, one thing is clear: In the staring contest between Orioles owner John Angelos and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Moore blinked first. Moore’s overeagerness to sign the Orioles to a long-term lease produced a non binding “memorandum of understanding” between the Orioles and the state that has drawn heavy criticism from multiple sources. For example, the editorial advisory board of the The Daily Record pulled no punches, labelling it a “bad deal.”

Good news or bad news first? Because there was plenty of both this week for the fledgling U.S. offshore wind industry. On Halloween, the Biden administration announced that the nation’s largest planned offshore wind development, Dominion Energy’s 2,600 megawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, received its last major federal approval.

 

Anne Arundel County Public Schools is testing a new “bus badge” program for students who attend half a dozen schools. School officials said the pilot program will officially kick off next Wednesday, Nov. 8, for students in the Crofton cluster of schools. The school district wants to place electronic chips in new student-issued identification cards. Students will use the cards when they board and get off their buses.

 

 

Gov. Wes Moore’s black SUV pulled up to a dimly lit parking lot behind a small, gray house-turned-office in suburban Virginia on Saturday night, the last of a half-dozen campaign stops across the commonwealth. Earlier in the day, he’d spoken to hundreds at boisterous rallies and a festive breakfast. By the time night fell, the governor was in Manassas, climbing the steps to the small office where a couple of dozen mostly young campaign staffers and volunteers waited, one clutching a copy of Moore’s bestselling book.