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Downtown Baltimore will get a boost from 3,3000 state employees being moved there. Image by Bruce Emmerling from Pixabay HOGAN TO MOVE 3,300 STATE WORKERS TO B’MORE DISTRICT: In an attempt to help revitalize Baltimore’s downtown central business district the state plans to relocate more than 3,000 of its employees to offices in that area of the city, Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday. In all the proposal will affect 3,300 state employees from a dozen agencies and will be funded with $50 million in federal funds, Bryan Renbaum reports in Maryland Reporter. The state on Monday issued a request f...

State Roundup: Maryland, jurisdictions could get $6.4 billion in federal stimulus funds The view of the Maryland Senate chamber from the desk of Majority Leader Nancy King. From King's Facebook page VAN HOLLEN: HOW STIMULUS WILL AID MARYLAND:: U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) Friday criticized the Hogan administration’s rollout of coronavirus vaccines, saying the state needs to do more to make vaccines more accessible in underserved communities. Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter interviews the senator, focusing on how the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that President Joe Biden recently s...

This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. When the dust settled from the wild 2018 election — one that saw dozens of Democrats compete for County Council seats — Montgomery County wound up with just one woman on the nine-member council, Nancy Navarro (D). Montgomery now has a record low number of female  councilmembers, a trend at odds with the county’s reputation as one of the state’s most liberal bastions. But that’s about to change, according to political professi...

On Wednesday, Republican delegates held a demonstration against the House version of police reform being debated. They were joined by over 30 police from mostly Republican counties. MarylandReporter.com photo MIXED REACTIONS TO HOGAN’s SURPRISE REOPENING PLAN: Maryland’s swift and far-reaching plan to reopen businesses and public venues took many key stakeholders by surprise, interviews with officials, business and health leaders show, and went further than some industry representatives had requested, Rebecca Tan, Ovetta Wiggins, Rachel Chason and Erin Cox of the Post report. Comptroller ...

Executive recommending deferring $100M for trail tunnel, Metro entrance By Dan Schere | March 7, 2021 File photo This story was updated at 3:55 p.m. on March 7, 2021, to include comments from County Executive Marc Elrich County Executive Marc Elrich’s request to have the light-rail Purple Line single-tracked in a downtown Bethesda tunnel is drawing criticism from some County Council members. Elrich has asked state transportation officials to consider using one track instead of two through the tunnel into the Bethesda station. The change would save the county the $54 million of constructi...