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A week after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the mural’s removal — following pressure from the Republican-controlled Congress — workers chipped away at the street. The mural, painted in 2020 after George Floyd’s killing and the tear-gassing of D.C. protesters, faded into chalky dust and murky puddles. Every minute, more of the 16-letter statement disappeared.
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Nearly one in five Maryland high school students have gambled in the past year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In Garrett and Queen Anne’s counties, that rate is close to one in four.
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Seepersad led USAID-funded research on criminal dynamics across 11 countries in the Caribbean, publishing the work in 2024. He says U.S. funding has positively contributed to crime prevention efforts across the region, often in ways people don’t realize.
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Gov. Wes Moore plans to change how Marylanders take deductions on their state income taxes, but officials in some of the state’s poorest counties say that plan could force them to cut services.
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Environmental advocates are fighting an energy bill that Democratic leaders say will lower utility bills and further the state’s clean energy initiative.
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The Trump administration published a list of 443 federal office properties on Tuesday that were tagged as “not core to government operations” and subject to sale, but by Wednesday morning, the list had vanished.
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President Donald Trump’s spending freezes and grants cuts are hurting efforts to improve local water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region, lawmakers and environmental groups said Wednesday.
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Braving pouring rain, federal employees, union leaders, and lawmakers rallied on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to protest what they called a growing threat to the merit-based civil service as the Trump administration pushes efforts to weaken job protections across the government.
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Driving through Maryland, you might come across an iconic sight: a neon-lined, art deco facade standing out amongst mundane downtown storefronts. The posters flanking its double-wide doors aren’t showing the familiar blockbusters of the day – they’re advertising indie circuit flicks and 35mm prints dug out from basement boxes.
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All schools in the county have since implemented restorative practices, with many ramping up their effort in the past two years. The recent ramp-up included dozens of professional development days in the summer of 2023 for faculty and staff, who then introduced “community-building circles” where students and teachers can discuss issues within each school.
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