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Maryland cannabis retailer Goldleaf is embarking on a far-reaching expansion in the Florida market less than two years after it first received its license to operate in the Sunshine State. The Annapolis-based company is preparing to bring a second cultivation center online later this fall, according to Senior VP of Retail Michael Tese, who is leading Goldleaf’s expansion in Florida. The new 50,000 square-foot indoor cultivation facility in Bradenton is slated to produce its first crop by mid-November, and will also function as a distribution hub for the greater Tampa Bay region down the Gulf Coast to Naples, Tese said.

Kevin Brown, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network’s lead play-by-player announcer for Orioles games, was removed from the club’s television broadcasts a day after listing off statistics about Baltimore’s poor play in recent seasons, according to sources with knowledge of the team’s decisions. Brown hasn’t been featured on MASN broadcasts for the past two weeks. The Orioles entered their July 23 game against the Tampa Bay Rays with a chance to win a series at Tropicana Field for the first time since 2017.

The job market has cooled over the summer. But it’s still strong enough to defy predictions that higher interest rates would tip the United States into recession. U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs last month, fewer than expected. But the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5% in a sign that the job market remains resilient.

A landmark Towson office tower was recently sold by an entity linked to Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos for $13.55 million. Court Towers at 210 W. Pennsylvania Ave. changed hands in early August to Mid-Atlantic Properties Inc., a Towson-based investment group and development firm that owns several other Towson properties. The cash deal closed last week after brokers from JLL, who represented the Angelos family, received several bids.

For years, Kahlil Nottingham washed windows for tips.Squeegeeing was a means for Nottingham, 19, to earn money, take care of himself and develop independence, he said. He’d started washing windows in 2017, after spending a night in a juvenile detention holding cell for trying to steal a woman’s purse. He decided to try making money a different way — first, by selling water bottles, then by squeegeeing. With an income, he’d be able to buy things he wanted on his own, without having to ask a parent for help.

Charlie Health, a Montana-based provider of virtual high-acuity mental health care for teens and young adults, Thursday announced the expansion of its services into Maryland and Wisconsin. With these new markets, Charlie Health has expanded its virtual intensive outpatient program (IOP) to reach half of the U.S, comprising a population of more than 245 million.

There is an empty plot of land in West Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood that haunts Cynthia “Diane” Bell. mIn moments when she is alone, her mind wanders to the three-story rowhouse and she becomes paralyzed by anger and confusion. Bell has spent years in quiet desperation, trying to understand why the city bought her home for a New York developer who has done nothing with the land.

The iconic Pepsi sign visible to motorists on Interstate 83 has come down, now advertising the warehouse space replacing the cola bottling plant. Commuters will now see a sign for Plant 83, a redevelopment of the Pepsi facility in Hampden, which closed in 2011. It’s unclear what has changed in the 187,500-square-foot facility or if the new ownership has signed on any tenants.