Maryland’s teacher shortage: Will the Blueprint’s plan for better pay, training do enough?

Fifth-grade teacher Melissa Carpenter works a 10-hour day on average during the week, and her job sometimes requires her to put in hours on weekends, too. “I feel like teaching is one of those jobs where we go to work…

A week in the life: Maryland’s state capital, in photos

Here is a week-in-the-life look at the place where state laws are built.

Biden, Johnson host luncheon with Ireland’s Varadkar ahead of St. Patricks Day

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Friday attended the annual Friends of Ireland Caucus St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the United States Capitol hosted by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana. Biden was one of the…

Fire officials push Congress to help attack growing wildfire threat

WASHINGTON – Wildfires are a growing threat to every state and fire officials are asking the federal government to step in to help. Fire agencies across the country need more support and less governmental red tape to fight these conflagrations…

Senators hear the case for cutting Americans’ workweek to 32 hours

WASHINGTON – In 1955, Walter Reuther, head of what was then known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), told a Senate hearing that coming technological advancements would make a four-day workweek possible. That was the last Senate hearing on the…

Maryland debates “local” wind farm, way offshore

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland wants to expand its use of renewable energy by encouraging local projects like wind turbines.  But one company’s plan to build windmills in waters off the coast is running into trouble this session in the General…

Cage-free egg bill cracks under pressure

A bill promoting cage-free eggs once got people excited but now it’s stuck in committee, leaving sponsors uncertain if its future is on the sunny side. 

State okays more Purple Line money, but not gladly

Gov. Wes Moore and the state’s chief financial officers approved nearly half a billion dollars in extra funds for the Purple Line on Wednesday, even as they condemned the embattled project’s mounting delays and escalating costs.

Senegalese Journalist Maty Sarr Niang Finally Liberated

Maty Sarr Niang, a journalist for the independent news site Kéwoulo, was released on March 12 after being detained for nearly 10 months. Her case was considered to be a signal of Senegal’s democratic backsliding.

Steps from the Capitol, cafe owner offers tastes of Belarus and worries about home

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