STEM education is about to get a lot more fun with the first ever statewide Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Festival that’s hoping to turn today’s students into tomorrow’s innovators.
Maryland School Systems Grapple with Influx of Central American Minors
Since August, most Central American “unaccompanied minors” who came to Maryland over the summer — often to escape gang violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — moved into Prince George’s and Montgomery counties. School systems say they need more mental health and family counseling to respond to many students’ trauma.
Tracking, Recording, Detecting: Trio of Data-Gathering Measures Presented at House Economic Matters Hearing
A trio of bills on snooping dominated the agenda at a Maryland House Economic Matters Committee hearing Wednesday.
A Call for Congress to Support Gender Equality in the Workplace
Advocates and congresswomen push for laws and policies for equality for women in the workplace.
Cummings and Warren Team Up to Evaluate Middle Class Economic Policy
Rep. Elijah Cummings and Sen. Elizabeth Warren teamed up this week to examine how U.S. economic policies impact the middle class, which they say has been suffering from stagnant wage growth since the 1970s.
House Committee Hears Bills on Decriminalization, Legalization of Marijuana
Other Bills Would Change College Sexual Assault Policies, Reform Rape-Kit Processing
Bill Requires 25 Percent of State’s Energy to be From Renewable Sources by 2020
Businessmen, religious leaders and environmentalists pushed for the expansion of clean energy in Maryland at the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday.
The bill, sponsored by state Senator Brian Feldman, D-Montgomery, would increase the use of renewable energy to power the state. Known as the 2015 Maryland Clean Energy Advancement Act, it would require 25 percent of Maryland’s energy to come from renewable sources, such as solar or wind power, by 2020.
Hogan Announces Initiatives To Combat State’s Heroin and Opioid ‘Crisis’
Governor creates task force and inter-agency council to fight heroin epidemic
Mikulski, Female Colleagues Call for Crackdown on Human Trafficking
WASHINGTON–Calling human trafficking a “vile and violent issue,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski joined her female colleagues before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday to call for more aid for victims and a crackdown on traffickers. Mikulski, along with the 19 other women…