Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks (D) will pay back taxes after improperly claiming homestead and senior property tax credits for homes in D.C. and Prince George’s County. Her campaign said Alsobrooks, who is running for an open Senate seat in Maryland and is currently the chief executive of Prince George’s County, was not aware of the errors. The improperly applied tax credits were first reported by CNN and confirmed by the Alsobrooks campaign.

Maryland added 2,700 total jobs in August, including 1,900 in the private sector, according to monthly data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Maryland’s growth rate in August matched the nation’s rate at 0.1%. Over the first eight months of the year, Maryland’s economy has added 31,800 jobs and grown by 1.2%, faster than the national rate of 0.9%.

Last month, Denise Prudhomme, a 60-year-old Wells Fargo employee from Tempe, Arizona, was found dead at her desk by a bank security guard who was investigating reports of a foul odor in the building. Records show that Ms. Prudhomme scanned into the office early Friday morning on August 16, and she was discovered on Tuesday, August 20 — four days later.

Earlier this month, the Baltimore County Council awarded nearly $2.6 million in operating grants to dozens of cultural organizations located outside its boundaries, including the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Everyman Theatre. That’s nearly five times the operating funds that have been promised to the arts, science and nature-based groups who make Baltimore County their home, according to an analysis of budget data by The Baltimore Sun.

 

The Maryland Department of Transportation has received its first credit rating upgrade in nearly 15 years, which Secretary Paul Wiedefeld said will lower borrowing costs and save taxpayers money. The department, though, also received a negative outlook to match the state’s forecast, indicating that its credit rating may be downgraded in the near future. Maryland’s general operating budget, similar to its transportation plan, is facing projections of a multibillion deficit in the coming years.

Elections officials and secretaries of state around the country have sounded an alarm that the postal service might not be equipped to handle mail ballots this year. But Maryland officials say there’s little cause for concern here. “Marylanders can have confidence in the mail-in ballot program,” said Jared DeMarinis, the state elections administrator. “We’ve mitigated as many variables as possible.”

 

As Maryland officials scramble to meet the state’s ambitious clean energy mandates, they are coalescing around a concept that seemed unthinkable a decade ago: That nuclear energy must be part of the solution. Even environmentalists are coming to terms with the idea. Paul Pinsky, the director of the Maryland Energy Administration, and one of the leading climate advocates in Annapolis during his long tenure in the General Assembly, recalled protesting against nuclear power plants in the 1970s.

As a boy, David Rubenstein lived in a red-brick rowhouse house on Fallstaff Road in Northwest Baltimore. He went to City College high school, where he was friends with future Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and gravitated toward government and civics studies. At 75, he’s the fun-loving owner of the Orioles, turning up game after game at Camden Yards as the team limps toward the playoffs.

Six-thousand delivery jobs are up for grabs in the D.C. and Baltimore area, according to a new statement from UPS. Both seasonal and full-time jobs are included in the hiring push from UPS as part of a nationwide campaign to add 125,000 jobs over the 2024 holiday season. “There may be four less shopping days for the 2024 holiday season, but UPS … will be ready,” the courier service said Friday.

Dressed in a creamy green blazer with pink sheath, Kara D. Beverly joined several hundred attendees this month at La Familia Soundstage, a Black-owned event space in Mount Vernon. A hulking screen blaring the presidential debate was the focal point of the dimly lit room. She wore the colors of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. to witness the first woman of Black or Asian descent to become the Democratic nominee for president. Kamala Harris is also an AKA and Beverly feels a special sisterhood with her.