State Roundup: U.S. Rep. Raskin spars with Emergent CEO over contaminated vaccines
The State House lobby has been closed to visitors during the pandemic but reopens Friday. Governor s Office photo
RASKIN SPARS WITH EMERGENT CHIEF IN CONTENTIOUS HEARING: U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sparred with the president and CEO of the Gaithersburg-based biotech company Emergent BioSolutions at a congressional hearing on Wednesday over decisions the company made both before and after it was forced to destroy millions of COVID-19 vaccines manufactured at its Baltimore facility due to issues related to cross-contamination, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter.
The chief executive of Emergent BioSolutions, whose Baltimore plant ruined millions of coronavirus vaccine doses, disclosed for the first time Wednesday that more than 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine are now on hold as regulators check them for potential contamination, and apologized to members of Congress, Sher
State Roundup: Some GOP lawmakers prefer Schulz over Steele for governor
A view of the offshore wind farm from Block Island, RI. The windmills are 3.8 miles off shore; those just approved off of Martha s Vineyard will be three times further out in the ocean, 12 miles. Photo by Val Stori, Clean Energy Group with Flickr Creative Commons License
GOP LAWMAKERS SAY THEY’d BACK SCHULZ OVER STEELE FOR GOV: Several of Maryland’s Republican lawmakers said that they would back state Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz’s campaign for governor in a prospective primary contest between Schulz and Michael Steele, Maryland’s former lieutenant governor and the former chair of the Republican National Committee, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter.
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State Roundup: Hogan posthumously pardons 34 lynching victims in Maryland
Gov. Larry Hogan used the unveiling of this plaque at the old Baltimore County Jail (in background) to issue pardons for the dozens of Black men lynched in Maryland in in the 19th and 20th centuries. Governor s Office photo by Anthony DePanise
HOGAN PARDONS 34 LYNCHING VICTIMS: Gov. Larry Hogan granted posthumous pardons Saturday to 34 Maryland lynching victims, including Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black boy who was hanged outside the Towson jailhouse by a white mob in 1885. Hogan’s office said it was the first time a governor has issued a “blanket pardon” for the victims of racial lynchings, Jeff Barker reports for the Sun.
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