Rosanne Skirble is a freelance writer who lives in Silver Spring. After college she taught Spanish and English as a foreign language in high schools and colleges, then switched to radio — and later television — broadcasting at Voice of America, where she spent more than three decades, largely as an environmental reporter. These days, when she’s not writing for local media, she teaches an advanced Spanish course at Montgomery College.
It looks a lot like Christmas at Parkside High School in Salisbury, with red and white poinsettias lining greenhouse tables and poinsettia flags and…
As international leaders remain engaged in UN climate talks, five Montgomery County students from two high schools are putting their heads together to talk…
Renna McKinney is faced with a problem that could put her childhood church under water. The Dorchester County native fears that frequent flooding could…
A new report puts a dollar value on what it means to get stuck on flooded roads in Maryland. In the first eight months…
On a hot and humid evening earlier this month, Del. Lorig Charkoudian (D-Montgomery) was able to take advantage of a break in the stormy…
Tenants from two largely Latino communities in Maryland filed complaints in state and federal court against their landlords this summer, seeking to address what…
Last May, the University of Maryland’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health started clinical trials to test vaccine candidates. Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19…
A tall poplar shades the front drive of Fred Tutman’s farm, land that has been in his family for generations. From a rope Tutman…
It comes as no mystery to Serenella Linares that Latinos have been sidelined by the mainstream environmental movement. “For the longest time, it was…
This is the fifth in an occasional series on Langley Park, a largely immigrant community in Prince George’s County where difficult living conditions have…