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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.

While Maryland saw a net gain of 13,000 men entering the labor force from January 2020 to June 2021, the number of working women…

As the state begins to implement the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future education reforms, Democratic gubernatorial candidate John King laid out his own education plan…

A nominating committee announced nine nominees to an accountability board tasked with ensuring the success of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future education reforms on…

In advance of Labor Day, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Perez received his largest endorsement to date from chapters of four labor unions representing over…

As many students across Maryland return to school this week while the delta variant continues to drive the state’s COVID-19 case rates higher, requiring…

Climate change is an international crisis that demands action at every level of government. Yet perhaps overlooked, with all the dire warnings about the…

State Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury, local superintendents and teachers unions all say that they are committed to fully reopening schools in-person this fall, and some…

State Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury appointed a chief of staff, Ary Amerikaner, to the Maryland State Department of Education in a closed board meeting this week. …

A new legislative commission will study the increasing demands on Maryland state parks starting next month.  Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) and House…

A Maryland U.S. Senator unveiled legislation this week that would tax major oil and gas companies which emit greenhouse gases to help pay for the…