by Josh Kurtz, Maryland Matters July 17, 2024 MILWAUKEE — I’m standing across the street from the apartment where I lived, back in 1983, in this city’s River West neighborhood. The street looks substantially the same, though I’m sorry to discover that Harry’s Chapel, the tavern that used to be two doors down, where a 12-ounce glass […]

by Josh Kurtz, Maryland Matters July 22, 2024 MILWAUKEE — The Republican presidential ticket is two men, Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. But women played prominent roles throughout the GOP convention week here — whether speaking on the convention floor or at glitzy events, at celebrations of donors and party activists, or making things happen […]

By KHUSHBOO RATHORE Capital News Service Stephanie Jovine of Charles County has struggled to get child care for her daughter Lily. (Jess Daninhirsch/Capital News Service).   When Stephanie Jovine searched for child care for her nearly 4-year-old daughter LuzMarie in Prince George’s County in 2015, she found two options, both of them bad. Jovine couldn’t […]

By KATELYNN WINEBRENNER and LAURA SHAUGHNESSY Capital News Service Halfway through her 12-week maternity leave last summer, Sarah Haddaway didn’t expect the trouble that would accompany her search for child care. After unexpected rejections from one fully booked child care facility after another, the lifelong resident of Maryland’s western panhandle began calling every provider she […]

BY: ELIJAH PITTMAN – JUNE 14, 2024  Republished with permission from Maryland Matters, https://marylandmatters.org/ Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would like to see his longtime antagonist, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, win his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat this fall. The support was quickly welcomed – by state Democrats, who are working hard […]

BY MARIJKE FRIEDMAN AND NATALIE WEGER March 7, 2024 Behind The Blueprint is a series from the Local News Network at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Pre-K in Maryland: Participation varies widely by county The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future aims to make pre-K much more widely available to every 3- and 4-year-old in the […]