Meg Tully

Gov. Larry Hogan announces more help for businesses but does not issue new statewide COVID-19 restrictions, as local counties add more restrictions in their jurisdictions.

Maryland prepares for the first vaccine rollout, with Gov. Larry Hogan saying it won’t cover all frontline health workers, hospitals maneuvering to provide enough staffing to administer vaccines and employers questioning if they can require vaccines of employees.

Testing sites are being inundated as concern about COVID-19 ramps up and people prepare for the upcoming holidays; government leaders contemplate shut downs and school policies.

Maryland’s major jurisdictions are racing to add new coronavirus jurisdictions as Gov. Larry Hogan’s new restrictions this week fall short of what county leaders believe is needed.

Gov. Larry Hogan stops short of imposing new restrictions on businesses but warns coronavirus numbers are trending up; Montgomery County seeks regional plan to impose local restrictions; schools pause in-person learning and election workers continue to count more than a half million remaining ballots.

Gov. Larry Hogan announced a major coronavirus relief fund after the state’s comptroller said it was urgently needed, a policy to check the temperatures of all Baltimore City voters at the polls is reconsidered and tweaked, and reopening schools continues to be a hot topic with Anne Arundel teachers and staff objecting and Howard County parents rallying for in person options.

A committee to evaluate law changes needed for police reform and racial justice is making progress on some proposals while major issues will wait until next week, Maryland’s U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin is leading the way on 25th amendment legislation that would evaluate if the president is capable of leading and the state Board of Elections reports it is ready for the election in a year where the global pandemic has upended much of its normal operations.