A new work group that will review pandemic-related spending, led by Comptroller Peter Franchot, will begin meeting in May, the comptroller’s office announced Wednesday. The group aims to look at how the more than $50 billion in relief money the comptroller’s office says Maryland governments, ...

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More Maryland schools have announced plans to expand in-person instruction in the summer and fall, while one has already begun increasing in-person learning midsemester. Goucher College in Towson welcomed about 100 students back to campus the weekend of March 27 after conducting classes entirely virtually throughout the semester’s first seven weeks. The school had already ...

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A nonprofit organization that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Maryland has filed a lawsuit against six jurisdictions it claims barred people with these disabilities from accessing the COVID-19 vaccine.  The lawsuit claims that these six jurisdictions — ...

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A lot has changed since the first COVID-19 cases appeared in Maryland last March, and few industries have had to adjust as rapidly and as often to accommodate new spikes in cases, new governmental guidance and new research as hospitals. ...

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A task force created by Maryland’s attorney general urged the General Assembly Monday to provide a right to counsel for low-income tenants in eviction proceedings and outlaw the courts’ statutory authority to order the arrest and possible jailing of people ...

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Having a high school student serve as a voting member on the county school board upon election by fellow pupils violates the Maryland Constitution, Howard County public school parents seeking a safe resumption of in-class learning amid the pandemic stated ...

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An expected surge in coronavirus cases has Gov. Larry Hogan and state health and hospital officials scrambling for as many as 3,000 additional workers. Hospitalizations in Maryland, already at or approaching record levels, are expected to climb in the coming ...

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A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a constitutional challenge to Gov. Larry Hogan’s safer at home orders, calling the governor’s directives a valid effort to achieve Maryland’s significant goal of protecting the public from the deadly COVID-19 virus. With her ...

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Maryland’s attorney general Wednesday called for $22 million in state funds to assist financially strapped Marylanders in need of free legal representation in eviction, foreclosure and debt-collection proceedings amid a resurgent pandemic that has already created widespread economic hardship. Brian ...

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The Maryland General Assembly will consider legislation this coming session that would give financially strapped tenants facing potential eviction a right to counsel at their court hearings, leaders of the legislature’s two judiciary committees said Tuesday. Funding for the legal ...

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