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Health care institutions continue to be Greater Baltimore’s leading employers, taking six of the top 10 spots on the Baltimore Business Journal’s Largest Private-Sector Employers List. At the top of the BBJ’s newly released List sits Johns Hopkins Health System, dethroning last year’s leader, the University of Maryland Medical System. It’s the ninth consecutive year that Johns Hopkins was ranked as one of Greater Baltimore’s largest employers and the first time since 2020 it was ranked No. 1.

A couple of Washington, D.C.-area restaurateurs will bring Creole cooking to Baltimore’s Northwood Commons development. Jeffeary “Chef Jeff” Miskiri and his wife, Toya Miskiri, plan to open Miss Toya’s Creole House early next year in the North Baltimore shopping center, which is in the midst of a $50 million redevelopment.

The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say. Wednesday’s tornado touched down near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and ripped up the roof of a Pfizer factory that makes nearly 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, according to the drugmaker.

Baja Tap is slated to open in the former Bond Street Social space in Fells Point on Sept. 15, the owners of the Mexican restaurant said on Thursday after receiving approval for a liquor license from the Baltimore City liquor board. The venture at 901 S. Bond St. will be the second Baja Tap location opened by the Wave Group, the Virginia- and D.C.-area restaurant partnership that launched the concept in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of D.C. in March 2023 with a rooftop bar, patio and extensive menu.

Grilled chicken hot dogs with fresh strawberries, feta cheese and spicy arugula, folded in a fluffy bun. Sweet potato cheesecake topped with a toasted marshmallow topping. A rich banana pudding with cinnamon and snickerdoodle swirls. Is your mouth watering yet? That’s the hope of the owners participating in Black Restaurant Week, which returned this month with its fourth iteration in the Greater Washington, D.C., and Baltimore area.

As the Orioles march towards the end of their current term at Camden Yards — but with promises to soon agree to a long-term one — Maryland’s treasurer is concerned there’s a holdup in lease negotiations and said the public is being kept in the dark. Treasurer Dereck Davis said Wednesday the drawn-out process, in which he does not have a part, between the Maryland Stadium Authority and the team makes him believe “there’s something that we’re not being told.”

Cannabis advocate Jacquie Cohen Roth is concerned that the rush of cannabis users going to dispensaries for the first time may not know what they’re getting into and is starting a new program to enable workers to better educate customers. Cohen Roth’s company CannabizMD is partnering with Baltimore’s CannaWorkforce to train underprivileged people to work entry-level jobs in the cannabis industry, with the goal of having a workforce that’s better educated on cannabis plant biology and preparation in all aspects of the industry.