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Gov. Larry Hogan, center, in black shirt helps unfurl a 150x300-foot American flag on the beach at Ocean City for Memorial Day. Sean Streicher has a neat 45-second video of the unfurling on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=334534101360435&external_log_id=fa81d914-def0-4f08-9a49-7c0c5874cbb9&q=ocean%20city%20flag Governors Office photo HOGAN VETOES 30 BILLS: Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed 30 bills Friday, including measures inspired by the coronavirus pandemic that would have tigh...

U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs We’re taking off for Memorial Day Monday. State Roundup will return on Tuesday. Mohammed Choudhury NEW ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL’ EDUCATION SUPERINTENDENT CHOSEN: A San Antonio public school administrator with a record of creative solutions to improve schools will take over as Maryland’s next state superintendent and face challenges in the wake of a year of pandemic schooling, Liz Bowie reports for the Sun. Mohammed Choudhury was appointed unanimously by the Maryl...

State Roundup: Hogan vetoes bills banning local governments from aiding immigration enforcement; restaurant Association head sees threat in commodity price hikes HOGAN VETOES ‘SANCTUARY STATE’ BILLS: Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed bills Wednesday that would have banned the state and local governments from helping with certain aspects of federal immigration enforcement, deriding the measures as “sanctuary state legislation,” Pamela Wood of the Sun reports. The bill bans local jails from being p...

LAWMAKERS REFLECT ON YEAR AFTER GEORGE FLOYD’s KILLING: On the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd at the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, and just a short time after that officer’s conviction on murder and manslaughter charges, Maryland lawmakers are reflecting on what impact it has had, writes Bryan Renbaum for Maryland Reporter. “The broader lesson is that the media attention on events like this and the fact that when policymakers and activists and impacted communiti...

State Roundup: Frederick County exec race begins to heat up as Hough, Hagen spar; Gansler running for governor again The front of the State House. Governors Office photo HOUGH, HAGEN SPAR AS  FREDERICK COUNTY EXEC RACE HEATS UP: The race for Frederick County executive is only in its early stages but it has already begun to heat up. On Monday, state Sen. Michael Hough (Frederick and Carroll), the only Republican in the race, ripped one of the Democratic candidates as “far-left,” Bryan Renba...

State Roundup: Maryland adds 3,800 jobs in April as unemployment rate stable at 6.2% Gov. Larry Hogan and wife Yumi participated with the president of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-In, center, in the groundbreaking for a wall of remembrance at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington on Friday. Governors Office photo STATE ADDS 3,800 JOBS; JOBLESS RATE STABLE: Maryland’s economy added 3,800 jobs in April and the state’s unemployment rate remained at 6.2%, according to preliminary dat...

State Roundup: U.S. Rep. Raskin spars with Emergent CEO over contaminated vaccines The State House lobby has been closed to visitors during the pandemic but reopens Friday. Governors Office photo RASKIN SPARS WITH EMERGENT CHIEF IN CONTENTIOUS HEARING: U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sparred with the president and CEO of the Gaithersburg-based biotech company Emergent BioSolutions at a congressional hearing on Wednesday over decisions the company made both before and after it was forced to destr...

State Roundup: Hogan says fully vaxxed Marylanders can forgo masks but businesses, jurisdictions can keep policy Rombauer won the Preakness Saturday. Governors Office photo HOGAN ALIGNS STATE MASK POLICY WITH CDC GUIDES: A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance to say that people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, for the most part, do not need to wear masks either indoors or outdoors Gov. Larry Hogan followed suit and made that guidance...

State Roundup: Hogan lifts more Covid restrictions as Covid positivity rates decline and vaccines rates go up The statewide mask mandate will be over as soon as 70% of residents get vaccinated, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday. Governors Office photo by Patrick Siebert HOGAN LIFTS MORE COVID RESTRICTIONS: Due to rapidly declining coronavirus positivity rates and improved vaccination metrics this weekend the state will lift all capacity restrictions on entertainment venues and dining establi...

State Roundup: Some GOP lawmakers prefer Schulz over Steele for governor A view of the offshore wind farm from Block Island, RI. The windmills are 3.8 miles off shore; those just approved off of Marthas Vineyard will be three times further out in the ocean, 12 miles. Photo by Val Stori, Clean Energy Group with Flickr Creative Commons License GOP LAWMAKERS SAY THEY’d BACK SCHULZ OVER STEELE FOR GOV: Several of Maryland’s Republican lawmakers said that they would back state Commerce Secretary...