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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 University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted unanimously on Wednesday to increase tuition and dormitory fees for the 2021-2022 academic year, following…
Drug overdose deaths have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, taking the lives of 87,203 Americans over a 12-month period that ended in September, according…
After years of legal wrangling, Maryland reached a $577 million settlement to end a 15-year-old federal lawsuit that accused the state of providing inequitable…
Maryland’s State Board of Education passed a resolution Tuesday directing all schools to return to in-person learning for a full 180-day school year starting…
Earlier this month, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) reinstated hazard pay for essential state workers, but scores of them say that they continue…
The University System of Maryland announced Friday that all students, faculty and staff on all of its 12 campuses must get a COVID-19 vaccine…
Despite strong pushback from the business community and moving late in the legislative session, the Maryland Essential Workers’ Protection Act made it through both…
During a legislative session dominated by coronavirus relief and confronting systemic inequities, General Assembly Democrats splintered over major climate change legislation, which eventually led…
An effort to reconcile the competing versions of major environmental legislation collapsed in the final hours of the General Assembly session Monday night, rendering…
The House of Delegates approved a priority climate bill on Saturday, sending the measure back to the Senate for final action on the last…