Under Armour Inc. is selling a once-cherished and now defunct Locust Point community garden lot as the first signs of its move to exit Tide Point for Baltimore Peninsula. The property is one of two empty lots owned by the Baltimore sportswear giant that recently hit the market in what could be the beginning of large-scale change on the waterfront leading into the Inner Harbor.

Buying this week’s groceries or paying for a full tank of gas with a credit card might contribute more to the profits of the airline industry than buying a one-way ticket. That’s because frequent flyer programs have become a crucial part of the airline industry’s profitability. And that’s due to the billions of dollars banks and credit card issuers pay to buy bulk miles from airlines to reward and entice cardholders to make purchases with their cards.

A fast-approaching deadline has the ACLU of Maryland calling for more protections as state police outline how local enforcement agencies will be able to use facial recognition technology. After years of debate on the use of the technology, which is often deployed as a surveillance tool in police investigations, legislation that put restrictions on facial recognition systems passed this year and was signed by Gov. Wes Moore in April.

Prince George’s County has long been known as an enclave for middle-class African Americans, a place of cul-de-sac neighborhoods and golf courses that is Maryland’s second-most-populous county. As the area becomes more diverse, a new population is on the rise: African immigrants. That community in Prince George’s has grown from about 41,200 residents in 2010 to about 71,335 residents today, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

The Baltimore County Police Department is joining the FBI’s Cyber Task Force as the first local agency to take part in the law enforcement effort. Police Chief Robert McCullough announced the new partnership at a news conference Friday morning. He said county police and the FBI are partnering to establish a new cyber investigative team in the police department.

Maryland is facing an unprecedented energy challenge. Our state’s growing dependence on aging infrastructure, coupled with rising demand from new industries like data centers and electric vehicles, has put enormous pressure on our power grid. As we grapple with these realities, the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) has been proposed as a stopgap solution to shore up our grid’s reliability.

Maryland has a chance to become the first state to elect a Black governor, attorney general and U.S. senator concurrently, transforming the state into the nation’s center of Black political power in just two election cycles. Two years ago, state voters broke barriers, making Gov. Wes Moore and Attorney General Anthony Brown the first Black candidates to be independently elected to statewide offices (two Black men had previously been elected lieutenant governor as part of a ticket).

Gov. Wes Moore, waging a “war” on behalf of Democrat Angela Alsobrooks’ U.S. Senate bid, is raising funds for a new super PAC focused on defeating her opponent, Republican Larry Hogan, whom Moore succeeded as governor. Moore’s involvement with the PAC underscores the significant extent to which he has tied himself to the campaign of Alsobrooks, 53, the Prince George’s County executive.

Maryland’s 6th Congressional District has been a Democratic stronghold for more than a decade, a section of the state stretching east from Cumberland to more urban Montgomery County that former congressman John Delaney flipped blue in 2012. But, with two months left before the November general election, that may change, according to a poll released this week.

It’s good news that in May, the National College Athletic Association and its power conferences agreed to pay college athletes over the next decade an estimated $2.8 billion from the megabucks that football and basketball teams generate. Athletes can give it the old college try while making a helluva lot of money.