Employees at Mom’s Organic Market in Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood voted 58-5 to form a union with Teamsters Local 570. Moses Jackson, the vice president of Local 570, said employees at Mom’s voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union Friday night. Rank-and-file employees at the supermarket had filed a petition for a representation election last month in their effort to unionize 75 workers, including all “full-time and part-time generalists, coffee roast, grocery, wellness, produce, naked lunch and cashiers.” Jackson, speaking after the election, said the vote means “for the first time, they will have a say at their job.”

DLA Piper, a global law firm with Baltimore roots, is moving its Baltimore office back downtown after more than two decades just outside the city limits near Mount Washington, with plans to relocate to Harbor East next summer. The law firm, formerly Piper & Marbury in Baltimore before two mergers, plans to announce Monday that it signed a 10-year-lease for one floor, more than 34,000 square feet, at 650 S. Exeter St. Before moving what was then the state’s largest law firm to a low-rise office building off Smith Avenue in 2000, the firm had its office downtown in a tower at 36 S. Charles St. It currently occupies 123,000 square feet in the glassy, cube-like Marbury Building in Pikesville, some of it originally needed for file storage and support functions.

President Biden’s announcement that it would cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt prompted pushback from opponents — who then had their own Paycheck Protection Program loans thrown back at them. The Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, unveiled Wednesday, would also extend the pause on student loan repayment and restructure income-based forgiveness, comes with a roughly $500 billion price tag. Biden’s plan has drawn criticism from many Republicans who have argued the plan is unfair to taxpayers and those who had students loans that weren’t forgiven, and that’s how PPP found itself back in the spotlight. Many high-profile opponents have found their own acceptance and forgiveness of PPP loans floated as hypocritical when it comes to forgiving debts.

On Wednesday, Carroll County will officially mark International Overdose Awareness Day with activities aimed at boosting awareness about lives lost and local residents affected by substance abuse. International Overdose Awareness Day was initiated in 2001 to expand awareness, honor individuals lost to overdose and acknowledge the grief of those left behind. It is an opportunity to grieve, and honor loved ones, according to the staff at the Carroll County Health Department.

When Baltimore-area children return to school Monday, some of them will have a new spot to read and socialize. The Baltimore Hunger Project, My New Book Inc. and the Towson Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks worked together to bring “My Cozy Corners” to life in Baltimore City and Baltimore County schools. The Towson Elks Lodge No. 469 covered most of the costs thanks to a grant from the National Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The project fits the Baltimore Hunger Project’s mission statement of feeding not only the body but also the mind, and My New Book’s goal of making sure every child has a book.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s persistence paid off last week with a milestone in his ambitious toll lane plan to expand portions of the Beltway and Interstate 270, two of the most gridlocked highways in one of the nation’s most gridlocked metropolitan areas. After years of study, the Federal Highway Administration approved a massive environmental review, thereby clearing the way for federal funding. Now Mr. Hogan, a Republican, has less than five months in his term to get further approvals. He’ll need it.