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When Jakeya Johnson needed to complete a research project for a public policy course at Bowie State University, her focus immediately turned to the school. But it wasn’t academics that were on Johnson’s mind; the graduate student wanted to explore which reproductive care resources were offered on the campus.

One of Gov. Wes Moore’s nominees for the Maryland Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities, withdrew from consideration Tuesday amid concerns about his background working for a natural gas association.

In Baltimore’s Roland Park neighborhood, you’ll find bike lanes and gourmet grocery stores and private school students with Starbucks drinks in hand. But go a few miles south, and suddenly food deserts, shootings and homelessness abound. When compared to the 54 other neighborhoods of Baltimore, Roland Park had the greatest median household income and the third highest white population, according to 2017 data from the Baltimore City Health department, the most recent available.

New data on the condition of Maryland school buildings shows a startling gap between Baltimore City and the rest of the state, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Public health, education and medical experts at Hopkins released the findings Tuesday of their study comparing the condition of Baltimore City Public School facilities with those in other counties using data provided in spring 2022 by the Interagency Commission on School Construction. The city school system had about 77,000 students enrolled last year.

On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 vote in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, found that Americans have a right to carry firearms in the street for self-defense, striking down a New York gun law that required applicants to justify why they needed to carry a concealed handgun. We believe it was a bad call, a narrow view of the Second Amendment that ignored both its “well regulated Militia” language and decades of legal precedent. But it was also the conservative court’s mistake to make.

Former employees of Montgomery County Public Schools could be owed millions of dollars after a report found that they forfeited prepaid health insurance premiums when leaving the Maryland school system. Anywhere from $3 million to $13.5 million in overpaid premiums were kept from retiring and departing staff at Montgomery County Public Schools over the course of two-plus decades, according to a new report from the county’s Office of Inspector General. The overpayments were neither refunded to eligible employees nor remitted to health insurance providers.

Competitors in this year’s crowded race for Maryland governor largely agree the pandemic magnified problems that were already pervasive in public education in the state. But the direction and focus of schools’ recovery efforts for the next four years may depend on who wins the race. “We need to understand the phenomenon of triage,” said Democratic candidate Tom Perez. “If people aren’t in the right space, we’ll have learning loss and real despair.”

At 530 feet tall and located in the core of downtown Baltimore, 100 Light St. is an icon on the city's skyline. And for decades its familiar image has included the name of its largest tenant emblazoned atop its 35 floors. Now, the building's owner Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE: OFC) is on the hunt for its next namesake tenant following Transamerica's relocation last year after a decade of occupying the top eight floors of the downtown tower.