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Gov. Wes Moore backs big new offshore wind goal for Maryland at industry conference in Baltimore

During remarks at an offshore wind convention Wednesday in Baltimore, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore shared his administration’s new “ambitious, but achievable” goal for turbines off the state’s coast: 8.5 gigawatts of power. A spokesman for the Democratic governor said he plans to sign the POWER Act, which would mandate the 8.5 gigawatt goal be realized by 2031, if the General Assembly passes it.

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No joke: Hopkins researcher ‘hung up the lab coat’ to open The Port Comedy Club in Baltimore

What happens when a scientist walks into a comedy club? If it’s Matt Hurley, he steps up to the mic.b “It didn’t feel good,” Hurley, 31, said of his first times attempting standup in the Baltimore area at places like Wits End Saloon in Timonium and Zissimos Bar in Hampden. That was last February, when the Chicago transplant was beginning to dip his toes into a new world. Hurley had long been more accustomed to experiments of a different kind.

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Horse racing
Funding issues threaten Pimlico, Laurel Park race track upgrades

The three-year-old plan to overhaul Pimlico Race Course and upgrade Laurel Park sits in limbo as stakeholders meet almost daily to “restructure, reconfigure and reimagine” how to make it work. Alan M. Rifkin, attorney for the Stronach Group that operates Pimlico and Laurel Park under the Maryland Jockey Club umbrella, said the deal to revamp the tracks passed by the General Assembly in 2020 is today so uncertain that no legal documents have been signed or finalized.

Maryland’s Moore fights national hype to stay focused on state business

Just a month into his first public office, the top media started asking Maryland Gov. Wes Moore if he’s running for president. While it can be hard to deflect the spotlight, Moore insists that he is focused solely on Maryland and Marylanders. One month almost to the day after Moore officially took office, he appeared on “DMV Zone” on Fox5 – a top station in a top-10 national media market, and was asked by anchor Marina Marraco, “You’ve been in office for 23 days and people are already raising your name as a potential Democratic nominee for 2024.

TEDCO invests in Md. cybersecurity startup CyDeploy

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent Pre-Seed Builder Fund investment of $150,000 into CyDeploy, a woman- and minority-led startup working to provide businesses with security solutions to improve the overall functionality of their systems. TEDCO’s Builder Fund invests in and provides executive support to Maryland-based technology companies run by entrepreneurs who demonstrate economic disadvantage.

 

Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum and workers strike deal to form union

The Walters Art Museum and its employees signed an agreement Monday night that paves the way for a union election this spring, resolving a nearly two-year impasse. The agreement is a win for employees because it will allow about 90 of them to be represented by the labor union of their choice and to form one, large and presumably stronger union instead of two smaller ones.

 

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States with legal pot consider how to protect cannabis workers

Most cannabis dispensaries are cash-only businesses, constantly at risk of being robbed. Indoor growing facilities use harsh lighting, and plants get sprayed with pesticides. Those conditions can create daily hazards for cannabis workers, which is why labor organizers are trying to unionize them as legalization spreads and the marijuana workforce grows.

 

Maryland’s recreational cannabis market is set to launch this summer. What can other states teach us?

In November, Maryland became the 20th state to legalize adult-use recreational cannabis. Maryland follows states such as Colorado and Washington, which each legalized in 2012. Medical cannabis became available in Maryland in 2017. “The world of legalized cannabis, it changes daily, and comparing it to what it was in 2014 or 2012, it’s a different world,” said Justin Tepe, a lawyer at Baltimore law firm Goodell DeVries who works with cannabis companies.

 

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Md. developers adding more affordable housing in Queenstown

Salisbury-based Green Street Housing and Rockville-headquartered TM Associates Development, two of Maryland’s largest affordable rental housing developers, will host a groundbreaking ceremony March 29 at the second and third phases of Slippery Hill in Queenstown. The new construction includes two additional phases to the existing first phase. The first of the new phases will provide mixed-income, mixed-use residential apartment homes. The third phase will provide senior living apartments.

 

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