Sustainable community schools will kickstart CPS 'reconstruction'

Lost in the media coverage of education in Chicago as mainly a budget issue is a major development. While Donald Trump is hellbent on destroying public education, our city is expanding a new model: sustainable community schools. The concept of...

Global Warming en Vogue, Deal With It!

Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are...

Is That Stream Healthy? Here’s How DNR Trains People to Survey Streams By Examining Wildlife and Habitats

Maryland Biological Stream Survey scientists demonstrate the process of sampling fish from a stream to a crowd of trainees. Photo by Joe Zimmermann In some ways, the Maryland Biological Stream Survey Summer Training resembles other education...

Global Warming in Vogue, Deal With It!

Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are...

Recovery teams continue search for missing swimmer in Baltimore County

Recovery teams will continue to search on Tuesday for a swimmer who went missing at Beaver Dam in Baltimore County. Officers responded around 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, to the 10,000 block of Beaver Dam Road in Cockeysville, where a person had...

Neighbors in Baltimore’s Locust Point raise concerns about noise pollution from Navy ships

Baltimore celebrates 10 years of Motor House, a beloved creative hub

Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARC) is celebrating 10 years of one of the city's most beloved creative hubs, Motor House. The two-day event spotlights emerging designers, local artists and creativity. Overcoming an obstacle This celebration...

Meet Eve: a sweet kitten ready for adoption at the Baltimore Humane Society

Meet Eve, a sweet and gentle kitten ready for adoption at the Baltimore Humane Society WRAPPED IN THIS BLANKET IS JUST A LITTLE KITTY BURRITO. ALEXA JONES FROM THE BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY BROUGHT US A LITTLE SWEET LITTLE KITTY. LOOK AT THAT. I’M...

Baltimore’s waters got ‘a little piratey.’ Now the harbormaster is back on duty.

At the height of the harbormaster’s reign over Baltimore city waters, bananas, not tourists, were a chief Inner Harbor import. Harborplace, the National Aquarium and the glowing waterfront promenade that would later attract millions of visitors...

Steel, struggle and Baltimore's history

The Sparrows Point Steel Mill, once the largest in the world, was a Baltimore institution that shaped workers’ unions, housing and cultural dynamics in the city for more than 100 years, from 1887 until its final closing in 2012. In a Library of...

Baltimore County executive nominates Khadija Walker as inspector general amid controversy

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier has selected Khadija Walker, a former federal auditor, as the new inspector general for the county. This decision bypasses Kelly Madigan, who has served as the county’s inaugural inspector general....

Trump team tells farmers what to do with their land

In the Trump administration’s latest move to kill the environment and ignore a mounting climate crisis, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that solar panels and wind turbines will no longer have a home on U.S. farmland. President...

Maryland Judge Strikes Trump's DEI Changes at Universities

A Maryland judge has struck down orders from President Trump to stop taxpayer funding to colleges and universities that teach diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The 76-page Aug. 14 ruling said that Trump didn’t promulgate the rules according...

Baltimore nonprofit connects residents to careers in construction and clean energy

BALTIMORE, Md. — Timothy Wright has a new outlook on life, thanks to the training he received at Civic Works’ Center for Sustainable Careers. He first came to Civic Works in 2020, after being laid off during the pandemic. “Things wasn’t going how...

MTA is cracking down on assaults of transit passengers and operators

A new law taking effect in October will allow the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) to suspend or ban those for assaulting passengers and transit operators. "Nationwide, there has been an increase in assaults against operators, and we want to...

Violators of MTA code of conduct soon could be banned from the transit system, agency says

The Maryland Transit Administration will begin suspending or banning individuals who harass or assault someone on a bus or train from riding the system, the agency announced Tuesday, after a new law passed in Annapolis this year granting it that...

Trump White House seeks ‘Swiftie’ justice by suing reseller for grabbing over 2,000 Taylor Swift tickets

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What happens to your brain when you stop exercising for two weeks

More and more research suggests that physical activity not only strengthens the body but also has a direct impact on the brain and its ability to stay young and functional. According to a group of neuroscientists from the University of Maryland,...

ICE adds two Mustang GT Fastbacks to its fleet – at Trump’s request – in latest move to entice recruits

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Rabid Raccoon Confirmed in Bishopville, MD Area

The Worcester County Health Department has confirmed that a rabid raccoon has been found in the vicinity of St. Martin’s Neck Road in Bishopville. County health officials remind you to contact the County Health Department’s Office of Environmental...