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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.
In Setback for Advocates, House Committee Considering Establishing a Commission on Paid Family Leave
Lawmakers began the legislative session considering a measure that would offer paid family and medical leave to all Marylanders, but a key House committee…
Following a federal investigation that revealed an alarming number of seclusion and restraint incidents in one Maryland school district, parents and disability advocates are…
After four hours of debate and a series of failed attempts by Republicans to amend it, a sweeping climate change bill won preliminary approval…
Maryland’s enforcement of water pollution laws has declined over the last two decades, but especially in the last few years, according to a new…
Ten candidates for governor laid out their plans to tackle climate change at a Tuesday night forum, a number of them supporting mass transit…
Following delays in rolling out the state’s sweeping education reform plan, known as the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, lawmakers are considering legislation that would…
After Amendments, Climate Bill Passes Senate Committee, While House Bill Faces Resistance at Hearing
After easing strict emission reduction standards on the building industry, a Senate committee passed a sweeping climate bill while climate measures in the House…
This is a significant decrease from the market value of $197 million that Maryland had invested in Russia at the start of February.
The House of Delegates gave unanimous approval Thursday to a trio of bills that would cut sales tax on commonly used baby care and…
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require governmental agencies to evaluate how their actions may negatively affect the climate or hamper environmental justice…