State Roundup: Maryland adds 13,100 jobs in March, still slightly above national jobless rate
The Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis just opened as one of Maryland s mass vaccination sites. Governor s Office Photo
MARYLAND ADDS 13,100 JOBS IN MARCH: Maryland’s economy added 13,100 jobs in March and the state’s unemployment rate remained at 6.2%, according to preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday morning. Maryland added 1,200 jobs in February. The national unemployment rate is at 6%, reports Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter.
HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION TOUTED: After a session largely dominated by mitigating the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and rewriting policing laws in the state, Maryland lawmakers and advocates are highlighting that they also had a “tremendous” year for health care legislation in the General Assembly, Hallie Miller of the Sun reports.
ATHOL Several members of the Finance and Warrant Advisory (FWAC) and Capital Programs committees were on hand last week when Town Manager Shaun Suhoski briefed Athol’s Selectboard on a draft proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1..
Last June, amid protests in D.C., police penned demonstrators into a block of Swann Street in Northwest D.C., arresting and pepper-spraying those out past curfew and leading residents to take others into their houses while police roamed outside trying to make more arrests.
A new report claims D.C. police used tactics that escalated the situation, and calls on the D.C. Council to reconsider the rules under which police operate in such situations.
The report from the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and Sidley Austin LLP, was compiled from more than 50 interviews with protesters and residents who took them into their homes, as well as photos and video footage of the night in question.
Swords Tidy Towns are appealing to save St Werburgh s Well in Swords and the provision of right of way in the area.
St Werburgh s Well is located within a copse of trees at the edge of a stream beside Lakeshore Drive in Airside Business Park.
The well was destroyed by persons unknown sometime after 2005, but it was restored by a group of local people who were very committed to its care.
St Werburgh s Church held lands in Swords in the 15th Century and it is believed that this is how a well in quite an isolated location became dedicated to St Werburgh.
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