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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.
With supplemental federal unemployment benefits slated to end next week in Maryland, state lawmakers sharply questioned Department of Labor officials Wednesday on their plans…
The State Board of Education reviewed Maryland’s 100-page plan for spending nearly $2 billion in coronavirus emergency funding on Tuesday — and returning to…
After eight years, an effort to expand collective bargaining rights to all employees at Maryland’s 16 community colleges finally made it through the General…
Environmental groups filed an appeal on Thursday in an attempt to overturn a federal commission’s decision to relicense the Conowingo Dam. They contend the…
The operator of the second largest coal-fired power plant in Maryland announced that the plant will retire next year, which is five years earlier…
Maryland has substantially underestimated the amount of greenhouse gases produced from its landfills, according to a new report by an environmental watchdog organization. The…
Some Maryland delegates pushed back Tuesday against the governor’s recent decision to end expanded unemployment benefits two months early without evidence that it would…
Maryland lawmakers and education leaders say they are looking forward to a reinvigoration of the state’s public school system with the announcement of a…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan (R) announced his appointments to the Blueprint for Maryland Future’s Accountability and Implementation Board Nominating Committee on Friday. Hogan appointed…
When James Jones drives up to his one-acre property in Eagle Harbor, a small historically Black waterfront community on the southern tip of Prince…