Maryland’s wedding industry faces unique challenges as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. Statewide social distancing guidelines still prohibit large gatherings, and, unlike restaurateurs and retailers, wedding vendors and venues must schedule everything around a specific date. Venues say they have ...

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Anne Arundel County will restrict indoor dining hours at restaurants and limit the size of both inside and outside gatherings after county health officials cited an alarming increase in the transmission rate of the COVID-19 virus. County Executive Steuart Pittman, ...

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Ever since the U.S. government launched its emergency lending program for small businesses on April 3, there have been complaints that bigger companies had their loans approved and disbursed more quickly. There is now evidence to back up those complaints. ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan is pressing county officials to do more to enforce compliance with state orders meant to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus in bars and restaurants. On Tuesday, the state reported 733 new cases, breaking a string ...

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Historically high unemployment rates triggered by the coronavirus pandemic are taking a toll on summer jobs for teens and young Marylanders. Maryland’s local governments and their partner organizations are adjusting internship and summer youth employment programs to hire as many ...

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Businesses and nonprofits in four of Maryland’s seven congressional districts were awarded almost three-quarters of the state’s Paycheck Protection Program loans totaling less than $150,000. Baltimore accounted for approximately a tenth of these small loans, more than any city in ...

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The Trump administration has awarded a contract worth $1.6 billion to a Maryland biotechnology company to develop a coronavirus vaccine, the largest bet yet by the federal government on an individual vaccine to combat the pandemic. The deal with Novavax, ...

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WASHINGTON — Newly released federal data indicates that hundreds of Maryland businesses, law firms, nonprofits, schools and religious organizations each received at least $2 million to stabilize their finances and avoid layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nationally, the government on ...

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Maryland businesses and their employees find themselves increasingly caught in a battle zone, expected to enforce the governor’s order that store customers wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic even as some patrons are bridling at following that order. Employees ...

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Baltimore’s downtown maintained its progress toward emerging as a full-fledged live, work and play neighborhood in 2019, according to a booster organization’s annual report, but faces an uncertain future amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While the current “State of Downtown Report” ...

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