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State Roundup: Hogan says fully vaxxed Marylanders can forgo masks but businesses, jurisdictions can keep policy Rombauer won the Preakness Saturday. Governor's 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 official state policy, Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter reports. Masks still will be required on...

The Daily Record received 20 awards in the 2020 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association contest, including 12 first-place awards. Among the first-place winners were awards for business reporting, feature writing, the use of social media for breaking news, best custom publication and best event. The annual awards, which were announced over a period of several days last week, are based on specific circulation categories. The Daily Record also won one Best in Show award which is selected from all the first-place winners in a specific category across all circulation ranges. The Best in Show a...

State Roundup: Hogan posthumously pardons 34 lynching victims in Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan used the unveiling of this plaque at the old Baltimore County Jail (in background) to issue pardons for the dozens of Black men lynched in Maryland in in the 19th and 20th centuries. Governor's Office photo by Anthony DePanise HOGAN PARDONS 34 LYNCHING VICTIMS: Gov. Larry Hogan granted posthumous pardons Saturday to 34 Maryland lynching victims, including Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black boy who was hanged outside the Towson jailhouse by a white mob in 1885. Hogan’s office said it was the first time...

State Roundup: State launches program to help youth bounce back MarylandReporter file photo HELP FOR YOUTH RECOVERING FROM PANDEMIC EFFECTS: The state is entering into a multi-million dollar partnership with several private sector companies to launch a series of initiatives aimed at helping younger people and their families recover from mental health impact of the pandemic, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter. School closures and the cancellation of both sporting and social events have had a detrimental impact, and this has been especially true for youth that live in the state’s mos...

State Roundup: Restaurants shrug over potential cicada onslaught The Talbot County courthouse with the Talbot Boys Confederate statue on the left and county native Frederick Douglass on the right. A lawsuit has been filed to remove the Confederate statue which the county council has declined to do. Photo by Blink of Anaye with Flickr Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ CICADA ONSLAUGHT OF NO CONCERN OF RESTAURANTS: Many Marylanders are becoming more and more apprehensive about the prospect of millions of harmless little insects known as cicadas flooding th...