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More than 3,000 graduate student workers at the Johns Hopkins University filed to unionize at the start of December. Nearly two weeks after their filing, Hopkins has filed to postpone or reschedule their hearing. Hopkins graduate students announced plans to unionize back in 2018 and have been rallying ever since. Most recently, the graduate students, as part of the group Teachers and Researchers United (TRU), gathered in October to start their union card campaign and advocate for fair wages as well as several other issues, such as on-time payment and safe workplaces. By the time the students filed to unionize, they counted 3,335 employees amongst themselves.

Demolition equipment tore down a chunk of the former Target at Mondawmin Mall on Thursday as community members and elected officials cheered, marking the start of a project expected to help revitalize West Baltimore. The CEO of construction giant Whiting-Turner personally acquired the shuttered big-box store for $1 million in March, when he announced plans to invest millions more and work with neighborhood leaders to transform it into a community hub.

It was around 2 a.m. three years ago when Keith Mario Luckey identified himself as a police officer during a dispute outside a Baltimore County bar, drew a gun and fatally shot a man. Luckey was a Maryland Air National Guard police officer at the time, although he was off duty that morning. He left the national guard months later and entered the sparsely regulated field of private security.

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell significantly last week, a sign that the labor market remains strong even as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates in an effort to cool the economy and slow inflation. Applications for jobless claims fell to 211,000 for the week ending Dec. 10.

The nation’s largest bank is shuffling its top leadership in the D.C. region. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) said in a memo to employees that Tim Berry, its global head of government relations since 2017, will take on the additional role of chairman of the Mid-Atlantic region, replacing Peter Scher. Scher, though, isn’t going anywhere. He remains vice chairman of the $3.8 trillion-asset banking giant and a member of its operating committee and will continue to oversee Morgan Health, a division created last year to help improve delivery of employee-sponsored health insurance across the company, which has more than 288,000 employees.

A vacant, historic mansion in Reservoir Hill could be redeveloped into a food hall under a new plan by Rockville developers. Marbray & Co. Realty LLC was recently selected as the frontrunner from a request for proposals to redevelop the 230-year-old, city-owned Birckhead Estate, also known as the Birckhead-Bond House or Mount Royal Mansion, at 2001 Park Ave. The three-story stone structure has an eclectic and interesting history, including once being owned by Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos.

Northrop Grumman Corp. is expanding its ability to produce hypersonic weapons for the U.S. government with the help of an $8.8 million contract to improve technology at a plant in Elkton. Funding through a division of the Air Force Research Laboratory will enable the aerospace and defense giant to shorten manufacturing time and boost affordability for hypersonic weapons in production, Northrop Grumman said Tuesday. Hypersonic weapons travel at between 5 and 25 times the speed of sound and are highly maneuverable either as hypersonic cruise missiles, which use air-breathing engines called scramjets to reach high speed, or hypersonic glide vehicles, missiles that are launched.

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