As many residents spent Monday volunteering in memory of Martin Luther King Jr., an organization in Montgomery County held an advocacy round table on how to help those who are food insecure now and into the future.

The General Assembly’s Transit Caucus this week announced its new officers. Sen.-elect Karen Lewis Young (D-Frederick) and Del. Jared Solomon (D-Montgomery) will serve as the co-chairs.

Advocates complain Maryland’s scholarship program for child care is broken as parents and providers are left in the dark for months without response or payment for services.

Montgomery County officials are hoping a delay in a final federal decision to expand portions of the Capital Beltway and Interstate 270 can be extended until a new governor takes office.

A bill that has passed the Maryland General Assembly would require school systems to collaborate with local and state transportation agencies to address pedestrian safety needs before a new school is constructed.

Maryland passed legislation to expedite rail projects and expand commuter train operations, as state lawmakers on Saturday overrode the veto of Gov. Larry Hogan (R).

When it comes to transit, Maryland hasn’t been lacking for studies or plans in recent years.

Legislators in the House Ways and Means Committee were presented with four bills related to making child care more accessible to Maryland families on Friday afternoon, with several child care providers and advocates speaking in support of the bills.

Maryland legislators have introduced a pair of bills that aim to strengthen Maryland’s rail transit infrastructure and better connect its railway system to neighboring states.

Maryland must run MARC trains all day and in both directions, and it must expand service into other states, if it is to connect workers and students with job and educational opportunities that are available around the region, a coalition of federal, state and local officials said on Wednesday.

Maryland policymakers and transit advocates are contemplating a bigger and better future for the state’s MARC commuter rail service.

As Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) approaches his last year in office, the Maryland League Conservation of Voters assessed his environmental record since 2015 and found inconsistent environmental leadership. Lawmakers in both chambers of the General Assembly received high scores in LCV’s latest annual report card.

With 751 fewer child care providers in Maryland 18 months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced many to close or scale back, providers say they are operating in “survival mode” still, struggling to find qualified workers and to offer competitive wages and health benefits.

The Department of Labor’s BEACON app has helped unemployed workers navigate Maryland’s benefits system, but state lawmakers told Secretary Tiffany P. Robinson on Thursday that a crucial gap remains — the inability of users to file for first-time benefits on smart phones.

A new report released Wednesday finds a quality early childhood education system must first be an equitable one.

After eight years, an effort to expand collective bargaining rights to all employees at Maryland’s 16 community colleges finally made it through the General Assembly relatively smoothly in 2021.

Rail systems are a vital piece of the nation’s infrastructure and serve as the backbone of our transportation system.

A third attempt to require more scrutiny of Maryland’s public-private partnerships — the kind of arrangement being pursued to add high-occupancy toll lanes to the Capital Beltway and Interstate 270 — failed on Monday in the final hours of the General Assembly session.