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Elizabeth Shwe was a Report for America corps member at Maryland Matters through May 2022. She previously covered California state politics during an internship at The Sacramento Bee. She is a 2020 graduate of Princeton University with a degree in political science. At Princeton she was a producer for WPRB 103.3 FM News & Culture section, the station’s only long form podcast-type program. Shwe also wrote for The Daily Princetonian, and tutored with the Petey Greene Program, which offers free tutoring to incarcerated people.
The committee charged with selecting nominees to oversee the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future education reform plan has declined to send a new slate of…
Sitting outside along the Baltimore waterfront Thursday evening, a group of environmental leaders said Maryland should invest in climate change solutions for the abundant…
In the wake of a visitor surge so great that Maryland state parks turned people away 292 times last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Less than a month after remnants of Hurricane Ida tore through Annapolis and inundated parts of Maryland with floods, county executives from some of…
Maryland schools can ask for the COVID-19 vaccination status of students and require proof of vaccination, even if the schools themselves are not mandating…
State lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to an emergency regulation passed by the State Board of Education that now requires universal masking in all…
A legislative committee is slated to hold a public hearing Tuesday morning before voting to approve or disapprove the Maryland State Board of Education’s…
Citing concerns about a lack of diversity in the slate of nominees selected for the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future’s accountability board, Gov. Lawrence J….
More than 90% of students, faculty and staff at most of Maryland’s colleges have complied with COVID-19 vaccine mandates this fall semester, but the…
The National Aquarium is trying to recreate the rich tidal marshes of yore by building an oasis of floating wetlands.