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Maryland Comptroller’s listening tour visits Anne Arundel County
Business Monthly - Maryland
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June 20, 2025
Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman visited two women-owned technology businesses and a revitalization project in Anne Arundel County on June 20 as part of her Take a Look with Brooke tour, which highlights impactful state investments and growing...
Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates
Government Technology
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June 20, 2025
(TNS) — The University System of Maryland and Google announced Tuesday that students will have access to new online certificates in tech skills, including training on how to use artificial intelligence. “We’re excited to partner with Google, one...
Maryland Governor Issues 7,000 Cannabis Pardons
Ganjapreneur - Washington
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June 20, 2025
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced during a Juneteenth address on Thursday that he is pardoning nearly 7,000 people convicted of cannabis crimes in the state, NBC Washington reports. The move follows the governor’s pardoning last year of over...
Maryland prepares for impact of cuts to federal jobs and spending
WTOP - District Columbia
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June 20, 2025
The Trump Administration’s cuts to federal spending and jobs will have a damaging effect on Maryland’s economy, according to a new report from the state’s comptroller and the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business. The Trump...
Maryland tech executive's reset inspires broader message for Men's Mental Health Month
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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What if the strongest thing a man can do is step away? That's exactly what Leon Burns, a Maryland tech executive, did this spring. The President and CEO of Open Technology Group unplugged from his demanding corporate life, taking a 23-day reset in...
Maryland Launches Striped Bass Fishing Advisory
The Southern Maryland Chronicle
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June 20, 2025
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources launched its Striped Bass Summer Fishing Advisory Forecast on June 18, 2025, to reduce striped bass mortality during the summer fishing season. Running through Labor Day, the...
Maryland, Virginia Falafel Inc. Remove Mural After Outrage From Jewish Community Members
Washington Jewish Week
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June 20, 2025
A recently removed mural at the Fairfax location of Falafel Inc. depicts an Arab refugee arriving to the United States by boat. (Photo by Asra Q. Nomani) The owners of locations of Falafel Inc. in North Bethesda and Fairfax removed a mural from...
4 tips for new grads looking for work in an uncertain market
PBS Frontline
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June 20, 2025
Graduation season is winding down and millions of young people are gearing up to enter a confusing labor market. Employers and workers alike are grappling with the growing specter of generative artificial intelligence, uncertainty spurred by U.S....
WCEDC director discusses economic observations
Sentinel Tribune - Ohio
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June 20, 2025
By Jane Welch-Maiolo Special to the Sentinel-Tribune PERRYSBURG – Although numbers may be down in some areas, the economy is not in a recession, said Wade Gottschalk, executive director of the Wood County Economic Development Commission, At the...
Three Women-Owned Businesses Open in Solomons
The Southern Maryland Chronicle
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June 20, 2025
SOLOMONS, Md., June 20, 2025 — Calvert County marked the opening of three women-owned businesses—shoptheallycatwalk, Shy Beauty LLC, and Habit Fitness—with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 17. Commissioner Catherine Grasso, Commissioner Todd...
Howard University and PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship convenes entrepreneurs, investors and HBCU leaders for Empowerment Summit
Baltimore Afro-American - Maryland
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June 20, 2025
WASHINGTON — Howard University and PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship will host the 2025 HBCU Entrepreneurship Empowerment Summit from June 19-21, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington. Now in its third year, the national summit brings...
EY names 5 Virginians Mid-Atlantic Entrepreneurs of the Year
Virginia Business
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June 20, 2025
Five Virginia business leaders have been named winners of Ernst & Young‘s Mid-Atlantic Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2025. The winners, named Wednesday by the Big Four global professional services company, are: Jeff Beck, CEO and co-founder...
Big Chicken Opens in Gambrills, Maryland
QSR Magazine - North Carolina
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June 20, 2025
BIG Flavor and BIG Fun is soon to be unleashed in Gambrills. Once exclusively available courtside at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena, Big Chicken, the star-powered fast casual brand founded by Shaquille O’Neal, is stepping off the court and into the...
Big Chicken Goes BIG In Gambrills With The Brand’s First Free-Standing Location In Maryland
Franchise Opportunities
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By: Big Chicken | 0 Shares 68 Reads June 20, 2025 // Franchising.com // GAMBRILLS, Md. – BIG Flavor and BIG Fun is soon to be unleashed in Gambrills. Once exclusively available courtside at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena, Big Chicken, the star-powered...
“Get Away From Me Before I Pluck You!” – Maryland Woman Gets Physical with Reporter After He Tries to Ask Why She’s Advertising Empty Houses to Lure Squatters (VIDEO)
The Gateway Pundit
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June 20, 2025
Credit: WBFF FOX45 Baltimore YouTube screenshot A Maryland woman got violent with a local reporter outside a Frederick courthouse earlier this week for daring to ask about her alleged activities involving homes occupied by squatters. As WBFF...
Benin women’s national team to make historic debut at 2025 Maryland Cycling Classic
Cycling Weekly
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June 20, 2025
Benin is set to make history this September as its women’s national cycling team will become the first African squad to compete in a major UCI-sanctioned race on U.S. soil, organisers of the Maryland Cycling Classic announced Thursday. Now in its...
Banks are financing their own nightmare
The Economic Times
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June 20, 2025
If you come home early from vacation and find robbers ransacking your house, you could call the police and try to stop the crime. But the true alpha move would be to help the robbers load your valuables onto the truck and then tell them which of...
7,000 Cannabis Pardons Issued by Maryland Governor Moore
Cannabis Science & Technology
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June 20, 2025
In a Juneteenth event announcement, Maryland Governor Wes Moore declared that he would be pardoning almost 7,000 people who have received cannabis crime convictions (1,2). Additionally, he announced that there would be a new program created to...
AG identifies man killed in Baltimore police shooting
WBAL TV - Maryland
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June 20, 2025
State investigators identified those involved in a fatal police shooting, as differing scenarios are emerging over what happened Tuesday.The Maryland Attorney General's Independent Investigations Division identified the man as Bilal Yusuf-Muhammad...
Average VA IRRRL loan amount in Maryland increases from Q3 to Q4
Maryland State Wire
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June 20, 2025
The average VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL) amount in Maryland during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024 was $478,496, according to figures provided by the Veterans Affairs Home Loans Index.The average VA IRRRL amount in...