The long-vacant Hearn Building in the heart of Cambridge remains a focal point as developers meet with city officials Tuesday night to discuss revised site plans for the property. Located on Race Street, the Hearn Building, the building next door, have stood empty for years, with developers Green Street Housing proposing to transform the site into a mixed-use development. The project envisions workforce housing on the upper floors and commercial space on the ground level.

It has been more than five decades since America declared a “war on cancer.” On some fronts, we’ve made tremendous progress. Cancer deaths are down by more than 30% since 1991. New and better ways of treating cancer are being marshaled, and earlier cancer detection through screening has made a dramatic difference. Researchers at the University of Michigan and University of Chicago found that the last 25 years of cancer screenings have collectively given Americans at least 12 million more years of life.

Limbach Holdings, Inc., a building systems solutions firm that partners with building owners and facilities managers who have mission critical mechanical, electrical and plumbing infrastructure, Tuesday announced it has acquired Laurel-based Kent Island Mechanical LLC for $15 million. Serving the greater Washington area, KIM is a service provider to facility owners who require solutions for maintaining complex building systems.

Cellphone use in schools has become one of the most controversial topics in the D.C. area as the new academic year kicks off. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s July executive order establishing the need for cellphone-free education across the state — and the Virginia Department of Education’s draft guidelines calling for “bell-to-bell” cellphone-free schools — are moves that have thrust the impact of cellphone use on education into the forefront.

 

At the front of a snaking line of cars stood Mandy Gordon and her wagon. She had made the mile-long trek from her home in downtown Cumberland to Western Maryland Food Bank’s pantry so that she could feed her family. Since she doesn’t have access to a car, a long walk and a black cart are her solution to a persistent challenge.

 

The Biden administration has been one of the most efficient and successful in modern history. With narrow majorities in Congress and then a hostile House in the past two years, the White House nevertheless passed a huge raft of legislation, had no scandals (Republicans failed to come up with anything), enjoyed virtually no turnover and did very little leaking.

Hotel workers walked out of the city-owned downtown Hilton hotel Monday for a daylong Labor Day strike demanding better pay and better working conditions, making it the first strike in 54 years at any hotel in Baltimore. Baltimore Unite Here Local 7 represents about 200 workers at the hotel. The action follows similar protests in eight cities across the country on Sunday as contract negotiations have stalled for hotel workers demanding higher wages and better working conditions.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s job approval rating soared to 64% in a statewide poll out Tuesday, up six percentage points from a similar survey of likely voters conducted earlier this year. The poll was conducted by Gonzales Research & Media Services between Aug. 24 and Aug. 30, days after Moore gave a well-received prime-time speech during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

I’m sitting in Obrycki’s on Concourse B at BWI. You know, the place that used to be a Baltimore crab house but now is a spot to grab some Maryland-themed airport food. I’m wondering why I paid $32.99 for a warm crab salad on a hotdog bun when I start to notice my fellow travelers, the ones who chose to fly on the Thursday afternoon before a long holiday weekend.

A Wawa convenience store planned north of Hagerstown could be open by next summer, according to a senior project manager with ARCTRUST, a Clifton, N.J.-based real estate investment trust involved in the project. This will be Wawa’s first store in Washington County. ARCTRUST has begun site work at 13610 Pennsylvania Ave., near the Maugans Avenue intersection, that will include stormwater drainage work, Senior Project Manager Apusha Paghdal said Thursday.