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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 health of the Chesapeake Bay remains poor, due in part to insufficient management of the Bay’s rockfish population, according to a recent report…
The Baltimore City Democratic Central Committee on Tuesday evening nominated attorney Marlon Amprey to fill an opening in the House of Delegates. Amprey’s name…
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Thomas McLain “Mac” Middleton was the only full-time farmer left in the legislature when he was upset by now-Sen. Arthur Ellis (D-Charles) in the…
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Parents and advocates for Baltimore City public school students in a long-running educational equity lawsuit are calling on Maryland’s top elected officials to substantially…
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) on Thursday announced Natasha Mehu as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Government Relations, where she will…
Across the street from the Baltimore War Memorial and in front of a small group of reporters, Baltimore’s new mayor, Brandon M. Scott (D),…