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Maryland correctional authorities have recorded seven inmate deaths over the past two months, a pattern that criminal justice experts say points to deeper challenges inside the state’s prisons.
“The number of deaths raises more than individual problems. It is time to look at systemic shortcomings,” said Nora Demleitner, a past president of St. John’s College in Annapolis and a longtime criminal justice scholar who has written extensively on...

The Catonsville neighbors of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, say they were blindsided by a $27 million project paid out of a UMBC capital improvement budget that included clear-cutting nearly 3 acres of trees and bulldozing a stream valley...

It’s long felt personal between federal workers and President Donald Trump.
Trump entered his second term promising to shrink and reshape the federal workforce, casting civil servants as embedded and unaccountable.
Federal buildings tend to look standard-issue and utilitarian. And for many Americans, the federal workforce is easier to picture as a bureaucracy — an anonymous sort of monolith — than actual people....