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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.
Baltimore City Public Schools will pause all in-person learning and meal sites for a week after Thanksgiving as a safety precaution recommended by health…
While some parents are imploring school systems to return students to classrooms, experts argue that the sudden disruption to traditional schooling provides teachers a…
As Maryland seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, some lawmakers and advocates contend that the state will be especially vulnerable to warmer weather, sunny-day…
More local school systems have rolled back their reopening plans as coronavirus cases steadily increase across the state. On Thursday morning, the state reported…
As the coronavirus continues to surge across the nation, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) dispensed more federal money to boost the state’s emergency…
After the Associated Press called Pennsylvania for Joe Biden on Saturday, environmental advocates in Maryland and across the country exhaled a sigh of relief….
As President Trump refuses to concede the White House election to former vice president Joe Biden, despite major news outlets calling the election for…
With reduced enrollment and revenue due to COVID-19 related capacity limits, plus higher costs for extra staff and cleaning supplies, child care providers in…
With all eyes on the county-level Pennsylvania map as more votes are tallied in the presidential battleground, some lawmakers who spent time getting out…
Baltimore City Council President Brandon M. Scott (D) is poised to become the city’s next mayor — and its youngest — following an early…