Maryland Labor Secretary Tiffany Robinson vowed to improve communication between her department and lawmakers after a number of legislators — Democratic and Republican — complained about an inability to resolve unemployment benefits problems for constituents when dealing directly with top ...

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A vaccine for COVID-19 might not be available to most Marylanders for six-eight months after a treatment receives emergency authorization from the federal government, according to Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson. Ferguson, speaking during a Joint Legislative COVID-19 Work Group ...

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The average number of daily coronavirus-related deaths in Maryland dropped Monday to its lowest level since the early days of the pandemic. Maryland has reported a daily death toll in the single digits for more than a week, sending its ...

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SPARKS — Maryland will be the first of a 10-state compact to take delivery of new COVID-19 rapid testing kits and machines. Gov. Larry Hogan announced the purchase of an initial 250,000 tests from Becton, Dickinson and Co. during a ...

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Maryland’s top tax collector is calling for sending more than half a billion dollars in state aid immediately to small businesses following a better-than-expected report on the state’s finances. State revenues for fiscal 2020 underperformed expectations by $102 million — ...

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The University System of Maryland announced Wednesday that costs associated with the coronavirus pandemic will be at least $500 million in next year’s budget, on top of $230 million in losses in the current budget year. Across the 12-member system, universities ...

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The city of Baltimore and Baltimore County are taking different paths as most of Maryland moves into the third phase of the state’s coronavirus recovery plan. Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young said Wednesday that the city won’t immediately follow ...

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A call to bring students back into classrooms and school buildings around Maryland does not include guidance to parents and educators on what the academic year would look like when the first positive cases are diagnosed in children, teachers or ...

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State lawmakers are calling for an accounting of how 500,000 COVID-19 tests purchased from South Korea have been used during the ongoing pandemic. The much ballyhooed announcement of the acquisition of those tests has been followed by scant details of ...

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Operators of the state’s 227 nursing homes and 137 assisted living facilities say the costs of carrying out state mandates for weekly COVID-19 testing of employees could cause sharp increases in costs and even bankrupt some facilities. State health officials ...

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