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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.
Climate change and transportation were the two largest areas of failure for the 2020 General Assembly session, according to the latest annual report card…
Some Prince George’s County residents are pushing back on the construction of six schools through a $1 billion-plus public-private partnership. If approved, Prince George’s…
To help improve contact tracing for students who have tested positive for COVID-19, the University System of Maryland announced Wednesday that it will join…
Gender and racial representation in Maryland’s State House continues to outpace most states, according to a new national census of state legislators. State legislatures…
Alumni and parents of students at the Maryland School for the Deaf say that the superintendent and Board of Trustees have repeatedly failed to…
Franca Muller Paz wakes up at 5:30 in the morning to prepare for her Spanish classes on Zoom. Although most of her 35 students…
Maryland housing advocates say they have seen a huge uptick in people asking for assistance for evictions since the COVID-19 pandemic hit and need…
The Baltimore City Council voted Monday night to heavily curtail the use of three controversial pesticides — a measure that will go into effect…
With Maryland at a COVID-19 positivity rate of below 5% and zero pandemic-related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours for the first time…
Almost 10% of Marylanders live on incomes below the federal poverty level, and a disproportionate number of them are African American, according to a…