Around Maryland

Fares for public transit in Maryland will increase Sunday, June 26, the Maryland Transit Authority reminds travelers. Single-trip fares will increase by 10 cents, with fares for Local Bus, Light Rail Link and Metro Subway Link going from $1.90 to $2.00, and Mobility Link fares going from $2.10 to $2.20. Monthly fare passes will increase from $74 to $77. The calculation is based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers. The price of public transportation increases every two years as required by the Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act of 2013.

Kyra Davis received six guest tickets for her graduation from Goucher College last month — not nearly enough to accommodate her large support system. “People asked to smuggle in my car,” the freshly minted political science and education studies graduate said. “It was a huge deal.” That’s partially because Davis, who will begin her career as a special education teacher in Baltimore this fall, said she once considered college too lofty a goal. In high school at Baltimore City College, she had difficulty improving her SAT and ACT scores. And after hearing horror stories about student loans and college debt, she was loath to take on the financial burden.

 Chase Brexton Health Care, a medical clinic in Baltimore, has a program that meets the unique needs of older members of the LGBTQ+ community.  The ElderPride program provides the particularly vulnerable population with primary healthcare, dentistry, behavioral health and counseling, support groups, special events and financial and legal connections. “They’re often providing care in isolation, they might be disconnected from their family of origin, they’re much more likely to be childless,” said Sam McClure, Executive Director of the Center for LGBTQ+ Health Equity at Chase Brexton.    

Two Ziploc bags full of spaghetti got past the security guards at Camden Yards with nary a second glance. That wasn’t the case once we sat down in section 360, far above left field, stuck forks in our saucy mounds of noodles and took a picture “for the ‘gram” before digging in. We held our bags of spaghetti aloft as the Orioles played the Tampa Bay Rays. Someone a few rows behind us snapped a shot. They posted it on the Internet and the photo almost immediately went im-pasta-bly viral.

Two and a half years ago, Inga James drew up a five-page plan for making Frederick County a trauma-responsive community. Baltimore had just passed the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act, which set the mayor and city agencies on a path toward improving their ability to work with traumatized residents. Frederick could do the same, James figured.

The lawyers for a Baltimore man facing his fifth trial in a 2015 murder are seeking to have city State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby held in contempt for comments she made in a radio interview soon after a judge issued a gag order blocking lawyers from discussing the case. A motion filed Tuesday accused Mosby of violating the order when she mentioned details of the case against Keith Davis Jr. during a radio interview on WYPR. The motion also asks Judge John Nugent to throw out the charges against Davis as a sanction for the violation.