More than a thousand people — including union laborer Terry Turbin — gathered Friday to raise money for port workers who will lose work because of the Key Bridge collapse.
Maryland lawmakers may consider whether to create a new form of a state of emergency to handle long-term infrastructure emergencies like the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this week.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse has fueled fears of nationwide supply-chain disruptions, but guarded optimism might be justified, says a Johns Hopkins Carey Business School professor who specializes in operations management and business analytics.
“This is as rainy as it gets,” said Senate President Bill Ferguson, who is working with lawmakers on emergency financial aid for workers and businesses affected by the closure of the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore following Tuesday’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
President Joe Biden pledged Tuesday that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River following a ship strike.
The American toad and the less common Fowler’s toad will soon fill the suburbs with their harmonious mating calls. But they are also facing threats from the modern world.
Maryland officials are set to pay $4.1 million to two groups of individuals identified from a Title IX investigation into the University of Maryland Baltimore County, which was just the subject of a blockbuster Title IX investigation of the university’s swim team by the Department of Justice.
“What happened this year ... frankly it’s never happened before in 25 years,” said Peter Baily, executive director of the Association of Independent Maryland & D.C. Schools.
The Baltimore County Council is considering expanding from seven to nine members to be more representative of its increasingly diverse population. A work group will offer its recommendations by March 31.
In court documents filed on Monday, Deborah Katz Levi and James Dills, David Linthicum’s attorneys, asked a judge to throw out the charges against their client or bar all witnesses from the Baltimore County Police Department from testifying at trial.