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Scrap B-More helps supply teachers with arts and crafts supplies
WBAL TV - Maryland
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August 4, 2025
Teachers and students will soon head back to school, and a Baltimore nonprofit organization is making sure teachers have the supplies they need.Back-to-school time can mean big bucks spent on supplies, especially for teachers. But the nonprofit...
Rethinking state government’s presence in Baltimore | EDITORIAL
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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August 9, 2025
Last month, the Maryland General Assembly’s Office of Legislative Audit issued a fairly scathing report on the Department of General Services and its recent efforts to lease office space for state agencies in Baltimore. Auditors questioned quite a...
Baltimore Ravens put on a show for fans during practice at M&T Bank Stadium
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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Baltimore Ravens rookie Tyler Loop got his first chance on Sunday to kick in his home stadium in front of his home crowd. The sixth-round draft pick out of Arizona blasted a 56-yard and a 60-yard field goal, and had a little fun with the fans,...
How Maryland is Taking Climate Action into Its Own Hands — While Cutting Energy Bills
Earthjustice
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July 28, 2025
With rising energy costs and increasingly extreme weather events, who wouldn’t want an $80 rebate on their electric bill right now? Even better, how about new protections to help prevent future bill increases and temper the climate crisis? That’s...
Judge offers Baltimore another $100 million in opioid lawsuit — with a catch
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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Baltimore could receive another $100 million in its opioid lawsuit, but only if the city agrees to accept a significant cut to the money it won at a trial against a pair of opioid distributors last year, a judge ruled late Friday. The city could...
Maryland State Poker Championship Returns to Live! Casino & Hotel with Over $1.1M in Guaranteed Prizes
Eye on Annapolis - Maryland
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August 3, 2025
Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland will once again host the Maryland State Poker Championship, a premier tournament series running from August 27 through September 8, 2025. Held in the award-winning Poker Room at Live!, the 13-day event will feature 22...
A WARNing for Maryland Employers: Mandatory Notice Requirements for Mass Layoffs or RIFs Are Now in Effect!
National Law Review
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August 8, 2025
Quick Hits Maryland’s Mini-WARN Act requires employers with fifty or more employees to provide sixty days’ notice of mass layoffs or reductions in force impacting the greater of at least 25 percent or fifteen employees. The notice provisions of...
Hurricane Erin gusts shut down East Coast beaches and swimmers from Carolinas to NYC to Cape Cod
The Independent
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August 20, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Trump’s Crackdown on D.C. Homelessness Targets Black Residents Despite Declining Numbers
The Washington Informer
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August 20, 2025
Washington, D.C., is one of only six places in the United States where homelessness has fallen since 2019. Alongside its neighbor, Maryland, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mississippi, and Wyoming, the District posted reductions...
Maine environmental researchers grapple with federal funding changes
The Maine Monitor
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August 9, 2025
A University of Maine initiative exploring ways to bring renewable energy to Indigenous and rural communities was gaining momentum this spring when the Trump administration abruptly cancelled its $1 million federal grant. The Environmental...
Wind wars: Ocean City challenges Maryland permit in two different venues
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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August 8, 2025
Ocean City is pursuing every avenue in its ongoing fight to block an offshore wind farm — including one that didn’t exist until a month ago. That’s when the Environmental Protection Agency told the state it erred in saying appeals of the air...
Warren Brodey, 101, Dies; a Visionary at the Dawn of the Information Age
WRAL 5 - North Carolina
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August 20, 2025
Warren Brodey, who used his background as a psychiatrist to develop wide-ranging ideas about the liberating possibilities of technology at the dawn of the information age — ideas that helped lay the groundwork for revolutionary fields like...
Maryland elevates environmental justice at state agencies
E&E News
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July 22, 2025
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore last week directed several state agencies — including the health, transportation and housing departments — to coordinate a more unified approach to environmental justice. Aiming to fill gaps left by the Trump administration...
How Ohio State plans to deploy its secondary for Texas and beyond: Buckeye Talk podcast
Cleveland.com - Ohio
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August 20, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- There are two ways to discuss Ohio State’s secondary as it prepares for the 2025 season, given the current state of affairs. OSU’s has a loaded defensive back room this season, filled with players you can make a case for why they...
Maryland DNR unveils new mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts
WBOC 16 - Maryland
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MARYLAND - The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has launched a new mobile app aimed at providing outdoor enthusiasts, hunters, and anglers with resources. The new mobile app, "MD Outdoors", will replace the current "AccessDNR App". Users...
Elimination of EPA solar program to cost Maryland more than $60 million
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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The Trump administration’s decision this week to ax a Biden-era rooftop solar program will cost Maryland more than $60 million intended to build the local workforce and lower electricity costs for thousands of households. Of the $62 million...
Feds investigating antisemitism allegations in Baltimore public schools
Straight Arrow News
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August 8, 2025
[KALE CAREY] A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY IN BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOLLOWING A COMPLAINT FROM THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE. THE ORGANIZATION SAID JEWISH PARENTS REPORTED THAT THEIR CHILDREN HAVE FACED ONGOING DISCRIMINATION AND...
West Virginia groups urge Gov. Morrisey, Attorney General McCuskey to defend WV’s Solar for All program award
Appalachian Voice
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August 19, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 19, 2025 CONTACT Dan Radmacher, [email protected] CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Today, a dozen West Virginia companies and organizations sent a letter to the offices of Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Attorney General J.B. McCuskey to...
Global Symposium On Racing Includes Panel On Major Construction Projects
Yahoo Sports
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Global Symposium On Racing Includes Panel On Major Construction Projects originally appeared on Paulick Report. The 51st Annual Global Symposium on Racing returns Dec. 8 to Dec. 10, 2025, at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Ariz. Hosted...
The PRT Weekly News Bulletin for Aug. 20-26, 2025
Patagonia Regional Times - Arizona
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August 20, 2025
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