Maryland is expecting to receive about $3.7 billion in federal pandemic relief “within the next week or so,” a state budget official said Thursday during the first meeting of a state workgroup on pandemic-related spending.

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A Gaithersburg biopharmaceutical company has raised $23 million in Series A financing, the company announced Tuesday. NexImmune raised the money in a round co-led by ArrowMark Partners and Barer & Son, along with participation from Piedmont Capital Partners. ArrowMark is ...

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Now-defunct Sojourner-Douglass College has agreed to pay approximately $400,000 in unused grant funds back to the state as a part of a settlement agreement announced Wednesday. The settlement resolves claims brought in November that the college, which lost its accreditation ...

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Baltimore finance startup Blispay has added $12 million in equity, the company announced Tuesday. The company will use the new funding to continue to expand its merchant network and customer outreach. Blispay allows customers to use a Visa credit card ...

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Baltimore County has launched a $13 million effort to clean a polluted stream that flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

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Federal officials are heading to Ashland to announce nearly $9 million in grants from the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund.

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A bipartisan deal announced Monday would authorize about $17 billion to help veterans avoid long waits for health care, hire more doctors and nurses to treat veterans and make it easier to fire executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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The recipients of grants to expand pre-kindergarten in Maryland have been announced.

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With an August deadline looming, the House is poised to act on a bill that would temporarily patch over a multibillion-dollar pothole in federal highway and transit programs while ducking the issue of how to put the programs on sound financial footing.

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Gridlock in Washington will lead to gridlock across the country if lawmakers can't quickly agree on how to pay for highway and transit programs, the Obama administration warned Tuesday.

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