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Metro riders can now ride all five Red Line Metro stations that were closed during the summer due to construction on Sunday. Here are the four stops opening up this week: Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glenn, Silver Spring. The fifth station, Takoma Park, reopened in late June, two days earlier than its expected opening date.

Life sciences are big business in Frederick. How big? They have an economic impact of $12 billion, according to the industry profile produced by the county. The International Economic Development Council recognized the county's Office of Economic Development with the 2024 Excellence in Economic Development Gold Level award, on Thursday, for its profile of the many facets of life sciences in Frederick.

Hundreds of high school seniors in Anne Arundel County wrestled with the decision to attend the brand-new Severn Run High School over returning to their previous school. Severn Run High was built to offset overcrowding in Old Mill, North County and Meade high schools. The new facility boasts plenty of windows, state-of-the-art athletic amenities and 3D printers.

Carroll Community College will soon provide educational opportunities for adults and juveniles coming out of the criminal justice system. A new pilot program called the "Justice System to Careers Initiative" will soon offer career training to individuals before they re-enter society from the justice system as a preventative measure for adults and juveniles coming out of incarceration to avoid drug use or low-level crimes.

Two proposed ballot questions, one that would reduce Baltimore’s taxes and another that would offer payments to new city parents, were struck down Thursday by Maryland’s highest court, which found in separate rulings that both violated the state constitution. The Supreme Court of Maryland took up the two cases after separate Baltimore Circuit Court judges found that each question should not appear on ballots for city voters to consider this fall. Each judge ruled that their respective question was outside the scope of changes that citizens are able to make to the city’s charter.

Maryland environmental regulators proposed new restrictions Thursday on operations at a massive coal export terminal in South Baltimore, a long-awaited decision that comes after community members and activists have called on the state for months to shut the facility down. Among the most significant changes proposed by the Maryland Department of the Environment for CSX Transportation’s coal piers in Curtis Bay is a requirement that the company erect large physical barriers to prevent coal dust from wafting off the open-air site and polluting the surrounding neighborhood.

Customer service, customer service, customer service. That’s the conclusion of a paper published last month from a team of sociologists at Johns Hopkins University about the best way to help people using housing vouchers successfully move to neighborhoods with low poverty rates and access to good schools, jobs and other amenities.