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The Black Train Trust has scored a $100,000 investment from the Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) to help bring its product to market this year. The Baltimore-based tech startup has built a software platform to help firms measure and improve racial equity. It bills its core product, EquiScore BI, as “the Workday for diversity, equity and inclusion professionals.”

For an industry that brings both pleasure and therapeutic sustenance to so many people, the burgeoning cannabis industry is beset with hurdles. Everything from federal regulation (or lack thereof), issues with vaping, equal access to banking, veterans’ causes, tax policies, public perception and the continued presence of the illicit (or legacy) market are among the leading causes of angst for those working both in and around marijuana legalization and reform.

There is a wide pay gap between male and female physicians in Maryland, and doctors in the state earn less on average than those nationwide, a recent survey has found. The study conducted by Merritt Hawkins, a national physician search and consulting firm and a company of AMN Healthcare, on behalf of MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, tracks compensation, benefits and practice metrics of Maryland physicians and compares them to physicians nationally.

It easy to spot the vacant houses in so many of Baltimore’s older neighborhoods. It’s far more difficult to spot ongoing renovation of the city’s housing stock. In the last decade there is a bright spot — the 1700 block of E. Biddle Street, near Broadway and just north of the Johns Hopkins medical campus. The homes are in the Broadway East-Eager Park neighborhood. The catalyst for this encouraging transformation is ReBUILD Metro, a community initiative not as well known as it should be.

Continued blanket restrictions on raising rents in Montgomery County, imposed during the pandemic, are biting into landlords’ cashflow and may discourage investment, more than a dozen companies connected with rental housing said in a letter to the county’s elected leaders.

Think women in health care and you probably think of nurses, nurse practitioners and doctors. You probably don’t think CEOs and there’s a good reason for that: Female CEOs are few and far between in the field. A study published in November 2021 in JAMA Network Open, a monthly open-access medical journal published by the American Medical Association, found that only 15% of CEOs in the U.S. health care industry were women. At the University of Maryland Medical System, however, women lead four of the system’s 12 hospitals.

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport handled more than 618.8 million pounds of cargo in 2021, setting a new airport record, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Thursday. In July 2021, the airport set a new mark for monthly shipments, transporting 56.3 million pounds of cargo, the governor’s office said. The new benchmarks come amid growths in e-commerce during the pandemic.