Harborplace’s owner-in-waiting MCB Real Estate will hold the first of a series of community input sessions on reimagining the downtown landmark on June 3. The two-hour event will begin at 10 a.m. at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum near Little Italy. Reservations are free, and required because of limited space, MCB officials said Wednesday in an email newsletter “Our Harborplace,” which included a sign-up link.

Montgomery County officials, business leaders and police officers gathered in downtown Silver Spring on Wednesday morning to launch the Silver Spring Safety Alliance, an initiative to facilitate greater collaboration between local businesses and law enforcement at time of heightened community concern about public safety.

By now, all are aware of the ravaging impacts of inflation. Many are also aware that housing costs have played a large role in rapidly driving up the cost of living. Since the start of the pandemic, the U.S. Consumer Price Index has expanded nearly 16% in a nation that aspires to 2% inflation per annum. The median price of a home in Prince George’s County has also raced higher, from $316,500 in February 2020 to $415,000 more recently, an increase exceeding 31%.

Amy Morgan is a family therapist who works primarily with couples going through a rough patch. I called her to talk about Daniel Snyder. I explained that after 24 years — after zero Super Bowl appearances, after congressional and NFL investigations, after earning the near-universal enmity of fans — Snyder finally did the right thing and said he would sell Washington’s NFL team. So why didn’t I feel any better about it?

Midshipman Gabe Neale, commander of this year’s Herndon Monument climb at the Naval Academy, poses in front of it before plebes began ascending it on May 17, 2023.  Midshipman Claire Pelletier-Heblock predicted the time that the 17th Company would need to scale the Herndon Monument on Wednesday morning, a bold statement. “Two hours,” she said.

Despite growing up across the street from Pimlico Race Course, Aimee Ringgold for years never attended any official events associated with the Preakness Stakes. Although the historic race is open to the public, she didn’t feel the race or the events surrounding it were marketed to her. “It’s something in your neighborhood. I just wasn’t exposed to that, and I literally lived across the street,” said Ringgold, a 49-year-old upper Park Heights resident who is Black.

On Feb. 3, the only sound echoing farther than the thundering crash of the derailment of a 1.7-mile-long Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio was the subsequent outcry from politicians. Make no mistake, this was a disaster with explosions and fire (some of it deliberately set as a controlled burn to reduce the scale of the toxic spill). Despite the enormous turnout of emergency personnel and first-responders, elected officials from Ohio Gov.

A new bill from County Council member Andrew Friedson (D-Dist. 1) would establish a Community Zoning and Land Use Resource Office, changing an established but currently unfunded land use attorney position called the Office of the People’s Counsel. The Office of the People’s Counsel provides a county-funded attorney to represent constituents in land use decisions, but it hasn’t been funded since 2010.

After Gov. Wes Moore in March fired the contractor running the state’s veterans home over abuse allegations, the state spending board on Wednesday approved a $159 million deal with a new corporate vendor, despite the operator’s low federal quality ratings and abuse allegations in other facilities it runs. bThe Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs awarded the four-year contract to run Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in St. Mary’s County to Georgia-based PruittHealth, making Maryland’s only longterm care facility for veterans one of more than 180 owned by the care provider.

Baltimore County residents will begin paying more for their water this summer. The Baltimore City Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved a 4.9 % increase to water rates. For the average county family of four, the Baltimore County Department of Public Works and Transportation estimated the rate increase to be about $1.15 per 748 gallons of water used, which roughly amounts of an increase of about $42 quarterly or $168 annually.