Maryland

Board of Public Works OKs Health Department hiring to end contract positions

The Board of Public Works approved a plan from the Maryland Department of Health Wednesday to establish 144 regular positions, eliminating 180 contract positions. The plan came with criticism for the previous administration’s failure to document more than $1 billion in federal funding, jeopardizing reimbursement.

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Maryland begins unemployment planning for potential federal shutdown

The Maryland Department of Labor proposed two different methods of compensation for federal employees who could be impacted by a government shutdown next month to lawmakers Tuesday.

Black and white illustration of a young woman facing two hanging bird cages with birds flying around her.

Annapolis

Juvenile services department to move detained girls, again

Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services will relocate girls awaiting court hearings or long-term placement this month from a single unit of the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center to a center that will house all girls in the agency’s residential care.

Data Stories

Black and Hispanic faculty underrepresented in Maryland public universities

Black and Hispanic communities are underrepresented among university faculty at Maryland’s six largest in-person public universities, according to the 2021 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

Three men sit around a table at an expungement clinic in Baltimore.

Annapolis

Legal aid clinic offers job, expungement help as new laws expand eligibility

Albert Gary loved working as a bouncer. “People got to know me. I got to know people,” said Gary, 39, of Baltimore. Now, he said, he misses the work, because well-paying nightclub security positions have increasingly required guards to carry firearms, and his criminal record prevents him from getting a license to carry.

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