Maryland grants help businesses avoid debt after Key Bridge collapse
BALTIMORE - When Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March, Jeff Fraley asked a question on the minds of many Baltimore-area business owners: how can he keep the lights on and pay his staff? Fraley, president of recycling and…
Should Maryland schools ban cellphones? Here’s what school board candidates say

Of the 74 candidates who responded to the Local News Network’s campaign questionnaire, 64 favored strict restrictions on cellphones in schools, and only 10 expressed reservations about limiting cellphone use or touted their positive aspects. 

Think tanks, often funded by foreign governments, send House members on trips around the world

Private funders paid for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives or their staff to travel overseas more than 4,000 times in the past decade. The bill for the vast majority of those trips was footed by nonprofit organizations, including prestigious think tanks that receive foreign government funding.

Book banning resonates as an issue in Maryland school board races

Socially conservative school board candidates who want to remove books dealing with gender identity, racism and other socially sensitive topics from school library shelves are running in at least 11 of Maryland’s 23 counties, but they are in the minority.