The Maryland Senate Republican caucus said Thursday its members are opposed to holding a preferred mail-in election in November.
Read More »Report: State, local aid needed to avert 4 million layoffs
WASHINGTON — A new private sector report is warning anew of continuing damage to the economy if Washington doesn’t deliver several hundred billion dollars in budget relief to states and local governments amid the coronavirus pandemic. But Wednesday’s report by ...
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Read More »Stimulus payments sent to 1.1M deceased
WASHINGTON — The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus payments to almost 1.1 million dead people totaling nearly $1.4 billion, Congress’ independent watchdog reported Thursday. The Washington Post previously reported that the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service disbursed some payments ...
Read More »Maryland to award $300K for newspaper shooting memorial
Maryland is set to award $300,000 for the construction of a memorial honoring the victims of a deadly shooting at a newspaper office.
Read More »House passes sweeping police overhaul after Floyd’s death
WASHINGTON — The House approved a far-reaching police overhaul from Democrats on Thursday, a vote heavy with emotion and symbolism as a divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans. ...
Read More »New Md. jobless claims jump up to almost 48,000
Almost 48,000 Maryland residents filed for unemployment benefits last week, an increase of nearly 6,000 from the previous week, according to the Maryland Department of Labor. The 47,801 claims for the week ending June 20 brings to 843,052 the number of ...
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Read More »Md. says it’s whittled down unemployment claims backlog to 34K
Maryland is slowly digging out of a backlog of unemployment claims even as state labor officials say they are wrangling information to comply with a federal subpoena. Labor Secretary Tiffany Robinson told a panel of lawmakers Wednesday that her agency ...
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Read More »Maryland still suspended youngest students despite law
Data from the Maryland Department of Education shows the state’s school systems are still suspending about 1,200 students in pre-kindergarten through second grade every year despite a 2017 law intended to virtually eliminate such suspensions.
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Read More »Maryland: Gun buyers should expect background check delays
Gun buyers in Maryland should expect delays for background checks because of a “catastrophic hardware failure” in a state data system, authorities said in an advisory this week.
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Read More »Maryland senators recommend ways to avoid election problems
Two leading Maryland senators urged the state on Tuesday to prepare for a “hybrid mail-in preferred" November election in which voters can cast ballots by mail or in person with early voting, bidding to avoid the problems that arose in this month's primary.
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