A Frederick County Board of Education member thinks the school district should examine and possibly alter its approach to homework assignments. Board member Jason Johnson gave a presentation on the philosophies and research underpinning homework to his colleagues at the board’s work session on Wednesday afternoon. Johnson said he has long had an interest in the topic and wanted the board to consider it.
The family of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Thursday against a California-based pharmaceutical company in a continuation of her descendants’ efforts to recoup profits from companies they say are making money off the HeLa cell line. The new lawsuit, against Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, a publicly traded company specializing in treatments for rare diseases, comes just over a week after the former Turner Station resident’s family settled their first case against a biotechnology company under undisclosed terms.
His organization has distributed millions of pounds of food over the years that distributors, such as Amazon and Walmart, give to his organization after it reaches its expiration date. He donates the still edible food to groups and residents in the city’s low-income, mostly Black and historically disenfranchised neighborhoods. He said it’s his way of mitigating racism that has driven away resources, including grocery stores and food wholesalers. If getting food should be “as easy as breathing,”
One of the “most significant laws ever signed to help veterans” has already assisted over 340,000 former service members and their survivors seeking care for illnesses and cancers now presumed to be connected to open burn pits and other toxins, President Joe Biden said in Utah on Thursday as he marked one year since the law took effect.
Montgomery County Councilmember Laurie-Anne Sayles (D-At-large) will run for the Maryland Sixth Congressional District. Sayles told Maryland Matters in an interview Thursday that she would formally announce her candidacy in a statement later that day. Previously she had said she was exploring a bid. “I’ve received a lot of calls and encouragement to run for the open MD6 seat,” Sayles told MoCo360 last week by email.
The National Pastime takes on an added dimension when your team is doing well, becoming a soul-massaging diversion from the ubiquitous bad news of the day. The Orioles’ recent success has shaken loose memories of glory days gone by — and spurred hope for the future. Sitting with my grandkids on a muggy summer day, I recall going to my first game, in 1953, a minor-league affair in the old one-level Municipal Stadium on 33rd Street.
Frederick’s aldermen have identified an important problem, highlighting the fact that the city has been collecting millions of dollars from developers that is supposed to go to build affordable housing and school facilities, but failing to spend the money. Since 2019, the city has received nearly $6 million in school mitigation fees — levied on developments where schools are already overcrowded — and almost $5 million for affordable housing, which was paid by developers rather than include affordable units in their projects.
It’s no accident that when television crews seek an attractive backdrop for Baltimore, they inevitably find themselves looking out across the waterfront. With views of Rash Field, Inner Harbor East, the Domino Sugars sign, the Silo Point high-rise and Harborplace, there is something that draws us in, some elemental need to visit the water’s edge.
In 2017, Baltimore’s transportation department committed to installing 77 miles of separated bike lanes within five years. The idea: to allow cyclists to easily get around the vast city without hopping in a car. Six years later, the city says it’s only installed 17.5 bike lane miles — less than a fourth of its goal. And bike advocates believe the actual number is far lower.
A MARC station will close for weeks starting later this month as part of a project to improve pedestrian access at one of Maryland’s oldest commuter rail stations. Starting Aug. 21, Camden Line service will be unavailable at the Laurel station, the 10th-busiest stop on the 42-station system that ferries commuters from the Maryland suburbs to downtown Washington. Service will return Oct. 29, officials said.