By DAVI JACOBS Capital News Service When Autumn Greene was 21, her mother died. Without warning, the young woman also lost her health insurance. Greene, now 22 and a student at the University of Maryland Global Campus, had been covered under her mother’s state plan....
By AMELIA TWYMAN Capital News Service Self-employed piano and voice teacher Alice Goldberg of Cheverly, Maryland, was paying only $28 a month for health insurance last year thanks to a combination of state and federal subsidies that covered a significant portion of...
By IJEOMA OPARA Capital News Service Preliminary data from the Maryland Department of Health shows that suicides involving firearms in Maryland overtook gun homicides in 2025. On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Montgomery County Department of Police dispatched officials to...
By STELLA CANINO-QUIÑONES Capital News Service Opioid-related overdose deaths in Maryland have decreased by 57% since an increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Capital News Service data analysis. Maryland had over 2,500 opioid-related-overdose deaths...
By Irit Skulnik Capital News Service Maryland’s Secretary of Commerce Harry Coker Jr. said Sphere Entertainment Co.’s decision to build a second U.S. location in Prince George’s County shows that companies want to invest in the state. Gov. Wes Moore announced in...
BY IAN FERRIS Capital News Service Taylor Frazier McCollum had never been deeply involved in local politics until she learned of plans for a data center at the site of the former Landover Mall. She started a petition to fight the proposal and just two weeks after...
By MAURIAH ALLEN Capital News Service Fare evasion, whether jumping over subway station rails or not paying to get onto the bus, has become a common practice for many riders across the Washington metropolitan area, rising 26 percent in 2025. Fare revenue brought in...
By Capital News Service staff Gov. Wes Moore signed 146 bills into law after Maryland legislators rushed Monday to pass legislation before the midnight deadline. Lawmakers rallied to address affordability and accountability as the state reacted to the Trump-Vance...
By BEN MESSINGER Capital News Service Democrats running for Congress in Maryland’s 1st District are less focused on their primary opponents right now than on the incumbent they want to face in the fall – Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Harris. There are currently four...
By CASEY GLICKMAN Capital News Service When Janete Gonzalez went to the Druid Hill Park farmers market in the fall of 2022, she was a new Baltimore City resident, having just moved after a house fire destroyed everything she owned. That day, she expected to leave the...
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