The University of Maryland Medical System today announced it is providing more than $2.3 million in grants across the state with a strategic focus on addressing issues of food insecurity and employment. The UMMS Community Impact Grant Program is awarding ...
Read More »Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, Flying Dog reunite to create special limited-edition whiskey, beer
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey and Flying Dog Brewery created two new specialty products for what they call The Osopher project, a collaboration to celebrate their shared history and commemorate their founder, George Stranahan. Having collaborated over the years to share beer ...
Read More »Md. expansion brings Evolve Med Spa to Frederick County
Evolve Med Spa, a practice group specializing in full-body skin rejuvenation, body contouring and injectable services for both women and men, has selected Westview Promenade as the site of its entry point into the greater Maryland marketplace. The 200,000-square-foot outdoor ...
Read More »Starbucks asks labor board to halt union votes temporarily
Starbucks is asking the National Labor Relations Board to temporarily suspend all union elections at its U.S. stores in response to allegations of improper coordination between regional NLRB officials and the union. In a letter sent Monday to the NLRB, ...
Read More »This Frederick company wants to revolutionize EV charging stations
If you’ve ever been frustrated that your phone is charging at a snail’s pace (most likely while the charger is overheating), you may be in luck. A Frederick company, Pirl Technology, is working to develop more effective chargers for not ...
Read More »More Black NFL retirees win dementia cases in rescored tests
PHILADELPHIA — Two years after a pair of former players sued the NFL over the treatment of Black retirees in the league’s $1 billion concussion settlement, hundreds of men whose medical tests were rescored to eliminate race bias now qualify ...
Read More »Johnson & Johnson severs ties with Emergent Biosolutions over more trashed COVID vaccines
WASHINGTON — Johnson & Johnson announced it is severing ties with Gaithersburg-based Emergent Solutions after the pharmaceutical company was forced to destroy another 135 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine made at Emergent’s troubled Baltimore production plant because of quality ...
Read More »Why are gas prices falling so far, so fast?
U.S. consumers are breathing a bit easier now that gasoline prices have come down from record levels, but pump prices are still high, and the two-month slide could be nearing an end. The nationwide average price for a gallon of ...
Read More »Columbia cybersecurity firm Visionist awarded four-year, $70M prime contract
Columbia-based cybersecurity firm Visionist Friday was awarded a four-year, single award $70 million prime contract from the Department of Defense to develop and support a voice-based processing application for both national and tactical intelligence missions. This contract modernizes a currently deployed system, ...
Read More »IKEA to install EV chargers at Md. stores
To help reach the IKEA ambition to become a circular and climate positive business by 2030, IKEA U.S. Thursday announced a collaboration with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to bring ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet electric vehicle (EV) ...
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