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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.
Maryland’s lone Republican member of Congress is calling for the federal government to investigate Montgomery County’s decision to ban in-person learning at private and…
Refusing to back down from a dispute with Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and private schools, Montgomery County’s top health official moved to…
After months of deferring to local health officials for reopening decisions, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) issued an emergency order Monday, overturning Montgomery County’s…
Baltimore City Councilman Robert Stokes Sr. may have thought he had a clear path to a second term after narrowly winning the Democratic primary…
Fran Phillips, state government’s top public health officer, who has helped lead Maryland’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Wednesday that she is retiring….
Maryland schools with the poorest students and the highest number of minority students have fewer educators than other schools and a disproportionate number of…
A husband and wife, who are volunteer leaders for the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club, both received national volunteering awards from the national…
Four years after the first of two major floods hit Ellicott City, its historic county seat, taking two lives and devastating many businesses and…
Still faced with the threat of the coronavirus, some Maryland universities are sticking with their decision to have a mix of in-person learning and…
Almost one month away from the beginning of the academic year, Maryland’s schools superintendent on Wednesday provided additional guidance for public schools as they…