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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.
When the public learned that Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s (R) former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, received a six-figure payment from his previous…
During a time of national reckoning on race, environmental groups are demanding that Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and his administration show a…
Strong Schools Maryland, a grass-roots organization dedicated to equal education for all Maryland students, is adding a new member to its team. Shamoyia Gardiner…
Leaders from six Chesapeake Bay watershed states, the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have failed to…
Maryland is regressing on its efforts to mitigate stormwater pollution that flows into the Chesapeake Bay, according to a new report by an environmental…
The operator of two coal-fired power plants in Aquasco, in southern Prince George’s County, plans to retire the plants on June 1, 2021. GenOn…
In the absence of specific guidance from the Maryland State Department of Education, state legislators are encouraging local school superintendents to coordinate a set…
Julia Kane, a rising senior at the University of Maryland College Park, was worried about the lease she had signed in February, before she…
Members of the Legislative Black Caucus are rallying to the defense of Andrea Kane, the Queen Anne’s County school superintendent who is under fire…
With a pending lawsuit and a Republican congressman calling for a federal investigation looming over their shoulders, Montgomery County officials announced Friday afternoon that they…