General Motors secured a new $6 billion line of credit as the automaker braces for additional strikes by the United Auto Workers union. “The facility that we announced today is a $6 billion line of credit that I think is prudent in light of some of the messages that we’ve seen from some of the UAW leadership that they intend to drag this on for months,” CFO Paul Jacobson told CNBC’s Phil LeBeau in an interview on “Halftime Report.”
While Marylanders are being reminded to get their flu and RSV vaccines, they are also being reminded that COVID-19 boosters are available. But a new poll found that not everyone is rushing to get the shot. The poll by Gonzales Research and Media Services showed that 52% of respondents said they will be getting their boosters this year, while nearly 42% said they will skip it. And their willingness to get the booster shots appears tied to how they feel about the federal government’s handling of the pandemic.
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-5th) and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) were evicted Tuesday from their United States Capitol hideaway offices in the aftermath of the ousting of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The ejection of Hoyer and Pelosi from their hideaway offices was one of the first acts of the new interim speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.). Hoyer’s communications team confirmed reports that he was ordered out of his hideaway, but declined any further comment on the matter in a statement to Capital News Service.
For several months, Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater has been soliciting ideas for bills and position statements for the county’s 2024 legislative package, which will be presented to the state delegation this year. Fitzwater’s staff contacted more than 100 community organizations and all of the county’s boards, commissions, councils and municipalities, according to a Sept. 28 press release.
A former Mississippi state schools superintendent who oversaw a startling turnaround in student achievement will take over as Maryland’s interim superintendent on October 23. Carey Wright has gained national prominence for her role in helping Mississippi students’ scores on national math and reading tests move from among the worst to close to the national average in just a decade. She had previously worked as a teacher, principal and administrator in the Howard, Montgomery and Prince George’s county school systems and as chief academic officer for Washington, D.C. public schools.
With Maryland’s Child Victims Act in effect since Sunday, lawsuits have already been filed in courthouses throughout the state — including some high-profile cases against the Roman Catholic Church and state of Maryland. But how many more will come remains unknown. When other states set aside time limits — permanently or for brief timeframes — hundreds and sometimes thousands of cases seeking delayed justice were filed in state courts.
Anyone who doesn’t regularly attend meetings of Baltimore’s Board of Estimates — the five-member panel charged with awarding contracts, supervising purchases and generally executing the city’s fiscal policies — might be surprised by how often it’s essentially bypassed. A quick glance at the agenda for Wednesday, Oct. 4, reveals that the board will be considering multiple contracts that were already executed for snow removal, to purchase sewer inspection equipment, to acquire a new ladder truck for the Baltimore City Fire Department, and on and on.
Nick Mireles died in June, one of three people shot to death amid a neighborhood dispute that forced Annapolis to cope once again with a mass shooting. Unlike the 2018 murders of my five friends at Capital Gazette, the deaths of Mireles, his stepson Mario Mireles, and family friend Christian Segovia barely registered on the national consciousness. It wasn’t an attack on a free press. It was just one more entry in the growing list of more than 500 mass shootings this year.
Morgan State University kicked off its homecoming week celebrations Tuesday evening by crowning a royal court, then crowds headed to the student center to continue the party. That’s when the shooting started. Gunfire erupted on the Northeast Baltimore campus shortly before 9:30 p.m., sending students running for cover. Five people, four of them students, were wounded, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a news conference.
Dissident Republicans in the U.S. House voted with Democrats on Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a historic move that came just nine months after he secured the gavel following days of negotiating with the GOP’s right flank and 15 rounds of voting. It wasn’t immediately clear after the vote how the House would proceed in the coming days, having entered uncharted territory. No speaker has ever before been removed by the House.