Business

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.

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. “We appreciate the good intentions of passing legislation to help residents through the Covid-19 pandemic,” the letter said, referring to Bill 30-21, which the Montgomery County Council passed unanimously in November, doubling down on a rent increase cap emplaced during the early days of Covid.

Rockville’s Immunomic Therapeutics Inc. is on track to go public later this year, after Covid-19 threw a wrench in the vaccine maker’s initial timeline. But a few things must happen first. So while juggling clinical trials, the immunotherapy company is hiring aggressively, expanding its Montgomery County footprint and eyeing more funding ahead of an initial public offering slated for the second half of this year.

A cargo ship’s hull was not damaged when it ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay and there is no fuel leakage, the ship’s operator said in an update Thursday, four days after the Ever Forward got stranded as it left the Port of Baltimore. Evergreen arranged for divers to inspect the ship after Sunday’s accident, and its propeller and rudder are fully functional, the company said in a statement Thursday.

A medical supply company founded in the early stages of the pandemic said Wednesday that it intends to build a $350 million glove-manufacturing facility at Tradepoint Atlantic and ultimately bring more than 2,000 new jobs to the Baltimore County site through a multiphase, three-year development. If all goes to plan, United Safety Technology will move into a 735,000-square-foot former Bethlehem Steel warehouse and make nitrile gloves — the kind worn every day by clinicians, doctors, dentists and first responders — as early as the first quarter of next year.

More than half of the restaurants shuttered by the city’s health department so far this year have been cited, not for the usual offenses, such as rodents or lack of hot water, but for operating without a valid license or permit. That’s significantly higher than in prior years and many restaurant owners blame the city, saying it is behind on issuing the paid-for permits as well as scheduling necessary zoning hearings, leading to delays in opening and affecting their ability to do business as the pandemic eases.