Bryan Renbaum, Author at MarylandReporter.com

‘No more deliberation, there’s no more questioning:’ Maryland leaders defend FBI relocation

Finding the FBI a new headquarters has been an ongoing issue for more than a decade. Hoyer described how former FBI Director Robert Mueller came to him in 2009, describing the need for a new building and how the current headquarters is crumbling.

As flood plans come to fruition, climate scientists say they’ll quickly be inadequate

As Annapolis readies to start construction next spring on the first phase of its ambitious flood prevention project, businesses are grateful for the pending relief, but climate scientists are warning that it’s exactly the wrong way to tackle the problem of rising sea levels.

School principals prepare for the Blueprint For Maryland’s Future

As Maryland rolls out the 2021 landmark education reform law called the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, many school administrators are unsure what the plan means for their schools.

State Roundup: Debate continues over FBI’s choice for new HQ.; Marilyn Mosby is found guilty of perjury; audit rips state’s Medicaid overseer

The Biden administration’s announcement that the new FBI headquarters would be constructed in Greenbelt, Maryland, was met Thursday with criticism from the agency’s director and allegations of corruption in the selection process from Virginia lawmakers.

FBI headquarters move to Maryland faces new headwinds from agency and Congress

Maryland officials delight in announced FBI move to Greenbelt

Greenbelt was chosen over another Maryland site in Landover and Springfield in Virginia after years of debate and winnowing the choices from 35 to three. The existing FBI headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., is too small, obsolete and crumbling.

Mental health center takes aim at patients’ long wait for crisis care

Lawmakers, clinicians, and educators gathered Thursday for a ribbon-cutting celebration of Compass Health Center, which aims to provide timely mental health crisis care to adolescent and adult patients throughout Maryland, where emergency room wait times are the longest in the nation.

Baltimore’s Leaders Are Gambling With Lives: By Turning Down the Opioid Settlement, Baltimore Fails Most Vulnerable

Over the last year, a record 80,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses. It is a real problem that has grown astronomically worse in Baltimore and Maryland due to the rise in synthetic opioids like fentanyl, which accounts for the vast majority of drug-related deaths.

State Roundup: Greenbelt chosen for new FBI HQ; state medical examiner to make changes after BPW OKs settlement to Anton Black’s family

Greenbelt chosen for new FBI HQ but FBI questions selection process; state medical examiner to make changes after BPW OKs settlement in death of Anton Black in police custody.

Youth crime process prompts questions in House, Eastern Shore

Lawmakers on Wednesday scrutinized the options left to law enforcement and others to address crimes by children and young teens during the House Judiciary Committee’s second hearing on youth crime.

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