Tag: Maryland
Almost a million Marylanders turn out for early vo...
By Capital News Service | November 2, 2024 | Election | 0 |
Three Maryland school board candidates have faced ...
By Capital News Service | October 29, 2024 | Election | 0 |
Election forecasters signal trouble for Maryland G...
By Capital News Service | October 29, 2024 | Election | 0 |
No grass, no crabs: Maryland community grapples wi...
By Capital News Service | October 25, 2024 | News | 0 |
Bear hunters say they do it for love of family, ne...
By Capital News Service | October 24, 2024 | News | 0 |
Maryland enshrines reproductive rights in state constitution
by Capital News Service | November 6, 2024 | Election | 0 |
Maryland voted to approve a referendum affirming the right to reproductive freedom on Tuesday, making what was already state law a constitutional right.
Read MoreAlmost a million Marylanders turn out for early voting, up from past two presidential elections
by Capital News Service | November 2, 2024 | Election | 0 |
About 23 percent of eligible voters in Maryland have already voted in the lead-up to Election Day, a Capital News Service analysis of unofficial early voting data from the State Board of Elections found.
Read MoreThree Maryland school board candidates have faced legal issues
by Capital News Service | October 29, 2024 | Election | 0 |
Anne Arundel County school board candidate Chuck Yocum made headlines when the Baltimore Banner reported earlier this month that he was accused and acquitted of child sexual abuse three decades ago.
Read MoreElection forecasters signal trouble for Maryland GOP hopes
by Capital News Service | October 29, 2024 | Election | 0 |
Maryland isn’t typically fertile ground for Republicans hoping to reach Congress.
Read MoreNo grass, no crabs: Maryland community grapples with Gunpowder River mud pollution
by Capital News Service | October 25, 2024 | News | 0 |
Beneath an overcast October sky, Theaux Le Gardeur and two researchers buzzed around the Gunpowder River in a motorboat bearing the name “Gunpowder Riverkeeper.”
Read MoreBear hunters say they do it for love of family, neighbors and the great outdoors
by Capital News Service | October 24, 2024 | News | 0 |
By ROBERT STEWART Oakland, Md. – Matthew Lidie, 57, and David Lidie Sr., 63, of Baltimore County...
Read MorePoll workers are in high demand – especially Maryland Republicans
by Capital News Service | October 21, 2024 | Election | 0 |
As local election boards work around the clock to recruit and train workers before early voting starts next week, some Maryland counties are facing pressure to hire more Republican election judges.
Read MoreKing of Jordan visits Maryland State House, but . . . why?
by Capital News Service | September 25, 2024 | News | 0 |
Gov. Wes Moore hosted the king of Jordan Wednesday for what he said was the first visit by a foreign head of state to the Maryland State House.
Read MoreOn child care, a search for local solutions to a national problem
by Capital News Service | July 16, 2024 | News | 0 |
“The U.S. treats child care like a private market good, much more like a restaurant or a gym, than it does like a social or public piece of infrastructure, like a library or a school,” said Haspel, author of “Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It.”
Read MoreMaryland’s pre-K expansion plan proves to be unpopular with child care providers
by Capital News Service | July 9, 2024 | News | 0 |
In a spring survey of the state’s child care providers conducted by the Local News Network, only 12.9% of respondents said they plan to or were already involved in the pre-K program created under the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, the state’s expansive education reform plan.
Read MoreFinding child care in Maryland is hard. Finding the right child care is even harder.
by Capital News Service | July 2, 2024 | News | 0 |
The complications of finding child care in Maryland often leave families waiting for a place for their child, and that can lead to trouble, said Doug Lent, communications director for Maryland Family Network, which helps parents find child care and helps providers manage their businesses.
Read MoreChild care is scarce in Maryland and the nation — and the pandemic made matters worse
by Capital News Service | June 25, 2024 | News | 0 |
The COVID-19 pandemic made matters worse. Maryland lost 15% of its child care providers and nearly 7% of its child care slots from Jan. 1, 2020, through Jan. 1, 2024, according to state statistics retrieved by the Local News Network. Those stats show that the number of child care slots in Maryland fell by 15,152 in those four years.
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