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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.
Several dozen people gathered in front of the State House on Wednesday evening, holding battery-powered candles and blue and yellow flags in a vigil…
A Senate markup of the climate bill, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, is being pushed back for a few days.
This vote does not rule out future emergency regulations requiring masks.
Following recent pollution violations by a chicken rendering facility operating under an expired discharge permit, lawmakers are introducing a bill that would limit how…
Local school districts would be allowed to decide whether students, staff and visitors must wear masks in school buildings under a proposal the Maryland…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) submitted a supplemental budget to the legislature on Tuesday that directs $139.9 million for programs outlined in the…
Several dozen people, holding green glow sticks and purple signs, gathered on Lawyers’ Mall on Monday evening urging lawmakers to pass a bill this…
Around 35% of Maryland’s “clean energy” in 2020 came from controversial renewable energy sources such as trash incinerators, landfills and woody debris burned in…
A central issue in funding dispute is a provision called the “education effort adjustment,” which directs state money to underfunded local school districts.
Two state Senate races to watch — one on the Eastern Shore and one in Western Maryland.