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With revenues crushed by the coronavirus pandemic, Maryland’s largest funder of civil legal aid is facing “significant” cuts to its grants. The Maryland Legal…
Anne Khademian, a professor at Virginia Tech, will join University System of Maryland as the new executive director of Universities at Shady Grove, a…
Noah, a pseudonym for a middle school child with autism, had been doing well in his public education program until school buildings closed in…
Marylanders will still need to go to court to fend off evictions under the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium, state officials…
Officials have spent more than 90% of the $1.653 billion allocated to Maryland as part of the Congressional Coronavirus Relief Fund, Department of Budget…
Advocates in Maryland were pleasantly surprised when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide moratorium on evictions Tuesday — but they…
The nation’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order Tuesday putting a stop to residential evictions through December in an effort to halt…
With more than 200,000 Maryland households at risk of eviction after failure-to-pay rent cases resumed in the state’s courts on Monday, state lawmakers are…
The 2020 presidential general election will be unprecedented in many ways. From mail-in ballot applications to voting center shakeups, here’s what you need to…
A former member of the Hogan administration who was fired over the weekend for posting statements and memes on social media that sympathized with…