Just a week after the campaign arm for U.S. House Republicans elevated Maryland’s 6th District to its priority list of targeted congressional races, House Democrats are doing the same. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Thursday that it is adding the Democratic nominee in the 6th, former U.S. Commerce Department official April McClain Delaney, to its “Red to Blue” program, which boosts competitive Democratic challengers and open-seat candidates.

The Frederick County Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously voted to approve the design development documents of a combined Middletown Elementary and Middle School. As a result of the board’s approval, Frederick County Public Schools plans to submit the project documents to the Maryland Interagency Commission on School Construction for its review and approval.

Two very different ballot measures in two very different states this year teach the same lesson: Bad ideas on education can come from either side of the partisan divide. In Florida, a referendum asks voters whether they want to change local school board elections from nonpartisan contests to races between candidates identified by party affiliation.

Priority Partners Cupboards Project has launched a brand new self-serve mini pantry in Salisbury, Maryland. The first Priority Partners community pantry in Salisbury. The objective is to help tackle food insecurity in the community, the initiative started in 2021 and has placed four mini pantries all across Maryland neighborhoods, this is the first one on the Eastern Shore.

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a contest critical to deciding control of the chamber next year. Alsobrooks leads Republican Larry Hogan — a former governor elected twice in the deep-blue state — by 11 percentage points among likely voters, even though the poll shows Hogan has won over a sizable portion of Democrats and remains about as popular with voters as his rival.

On a dreary Wednesday morning, outside a hastily spruced-up Maryland State House, the state of Maryland and the Kingdom of Jordan began what was touted as a new relationship with a hug. As the motorcade of nearly two dozen motorcycles, police cruisers and sport utility vehicles with flashing lights approached the front of the State House under drizzly skies, Gov. Wes Moore (D) and his wife, Dawn Flythe Moore, calmly stood outside on a patch of red carpet.

Hurricane Helene, now a Category 1 storm, is hurtling toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. But, will it hit the Eastern Shore of Maryland? Here’s everything we know about Hurricane Helene’s projected path, and if the storm will affect Ocean City and Salisbury. Where is Hurricane Helene now? The southeastern state of Florida is the first up on Hurricane Helene’s hit list. (Image Source: RAMMB-CIRA/NOAA)

Kamala Harris called for federal incentives to spur domestic manufacturing across a range of industries on Wednesday, ratcheting up her efforts in Pennsylvania to wrest blue-collar voters away from Donald Trump. In a speech in Pittsburgh, the vice president pledged to invest in biomanufacturing, aerospace and artificial intelligence, “so that the next generation of breakthroughs, from advanced batteries to geothermal to advanced nuclear, are not just invented but built here in America by American workers.”

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to help schools create active shooter drills that are less traumatic for students yet still effective. The order also seeks to restrict new technologies that make guns easier to fire and obtain. The president has promised he and his administration will work through the end of the term, focusing on the issues most important to him. Curbing gun violence has been at the top of the 81-year-old president’s list.

 

A new resource is opening to tackle food insecurity in Baltimore. Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library cut the ribbon Wednesday on the new Pratt Free Market inside the Southeast Anchor Library in Highlandtown. The Pratt Free Market will be stocked with produce, dry goods, paper goods and more products available for free to those in the community who need it. Each customer will be allowed to fill one library-supplied bag per day.