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Mass layoffs can move forward, with devastating impacts for conservation and science
High Country News - Colorado
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July 9, 2025
Stay informed about the West. Sign up for our email newsletter to receive in-depth, independent reporting that illuminates our region. Mass federal layoffs the Trump administration has planned can move forward immediately, after the U.S. Supreme...
Oklahoma City students win national STEM award for water pollution solution
KOCO 5 - Oklahoma
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July 9, 2025
SOLUTION FOR WATER POLLUTION. FEEL LIKE YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE WITH WATER POLLUTION? YES, THE URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY WAS NAMED A FINALIST IN THE CAL RIPKEN SENIOR FOUNDATION STEM STUDENT CHALLENGE BACK IN MAY. IT LEADS TO THE...
Maryland implements new taxes and fees July 1st
47 ABC - WMDT - Maryland
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July 8, 2025
MARYLAND. – Effective July 1, new taxes and additional fees went into effect in Maryland, drawing criticism from some lawmakers and residents. “This year, we went into session with a $3 billion deficit, and the state was looking at ways to fill...
Beloved Music Teacher Mathew Price Mourned In Maryland: ‘Beautiful Soul With A Beautiful Voice'
Daily Voice
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July 9, 2025
A gifted baritone, passionate educator, and joyful spirit, the 25-year-old Maryland native filled classrooms, churches, and concert halls with harmony, heart, and hope. Price, a cherished choir director at North County High School in Anne Arundel...
3 members of cult-like group will face trial together in Maryland
CBS 3 Philly - Pennsylvania
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Three members of a violent cultlike group, including its alleged ringleader, will be tried together in Maryland on charges of trespassing, gun and drug possession after police discovered them camping in box trucks. The group known as Zizians,...
Technical.ly expands to cover all of Maryland’s innovation economy
Technical.ly
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July 9, 2025
Technical.ly’s first expansion was to Baltimore, both because we saw the startup and tech ecosystem growing and because I didn’t own a car and the trains ran frequently there from where I lived. Over the next 14 years, we would hold our first team...
Babesiosis, Lyme Disease Emerging Co-Infection Threat from Deer Ticks in Maryland
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 9, 2025
By Doug Holl, Defense Health Agency-Public Health It’s almost a rite of passage for service members conducting field training during the spring and summer months in Maryland—the tick check. This careful, whole-body scan can help prevent serious...
Symbolic ‘science fair’ showcases research cut by Trump team
Nature
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The science fair was held on Capitol Hill in the foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building.Credit: dkfielding/iStock/GettyCapitol Hill, Washington DC A few dozen scientists protested the cancelling of their research grants by the US government at...
Many Nasa science missions are targeted for termination or major cuts
The New Zealand Herald
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July 9, 2025
Mars Odyssey is one of many Nasa science missions targeted for termination or major cuts in United States President Donald Trump’s financial year 2026 budget request to Congress. Trump’s budget would cut Nasa’s US$7.33 billion ($12.2b) science...
Science Says Plastic Bag Bans Really Do Work
The Good Men Project - California
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July 8, 2025
By Joseph Winters, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of...
Report urges more research on pesticides in Chesapeake Bay region
Bay Journal - Maryland
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A sign cautions against contact with a lawn where pesticides were applied. Dave Harp Widespread pesticide use is polluting waters throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed as well as imperiling the health of a host of organisms, ranging from oysters...
Apparent Zizian members to be tried together in Maryland
WBAL TV - Maryland
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July 9, 2025
Three members of a violent cultlike group, including its alleged ringleader, will be tried together on charges of trespassing, gun and drug possession after police discovered them camping in box trucks in rural Western Maryland.Archive video...
Chaberton Energy cuts ribbon on 3.2-MW Maryland community solar project
Solar Power World
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July 9, 2025
Celebrating the powering up of new community solar in Howard County, Maryland, are (left to right) Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO, Solar Energy Industries Association; Richard Gilker, senior vice president of technical operations, Pivot...
Baltimore City inspector general raises concerns over unfinished website project
WBAL - Maryland
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July 8, 2025
Baltimore City Inspector General Isabel Cumming has raised concerns over the city’s handling of taxpayer dollars in a website redesign project that cost $2.2 million and remains unfinished. The project, initiated in 2020, involved a bid process,...
Helpsy offers responsible clothing recycling in Maryland
WYPR - Maryland
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Americans buy a lot of clothes. The non-profit Public Interest Research Group estimates that the average consumer bought 53 items of clothing last year, which is four times as much as 25 years ago. A lot of that clothing ends up in the trash -...
Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s NSF Cuts
Inside Higher Ed
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Sen. Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, proposed sending $9 billion to the National Science Foundation. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Signs that Congress intends to push back on the Trump administration’s wholesale slashing of federal budgets emerged...
Maryland economy could lose $1 billion if international students don’t return
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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July 8, 2025
Bimal Malla, owner of Sakoon Indian Fusion, didn’t mince his words about the future of his restaurant, located just steps from the Johns Hopkins University campus. Business at the Indian restaurant in Charles Village is “down like 50% already,”...
Three Zizians face trial together in Maryland amid sprawling federal investigation
Associated Press
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July 9, 2025
CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) — Three members of a violent cultlike group, including its alleged ringleader, will be tried together on charges of trespassing, gun and drug possession after police discovered them camping in box trucks in rural western...
Maryland Matters: After last Bay cleanup plan fell short, new proposal aims to be flexible, data-driven
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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July 8, 2025
When they last signed a Chesapeake Bay cleanup agreement in 2014, officials from seven jurisdictions set ambitious targets and a hard deadline of 2025. They didn’t quite make it. So as they drafted the next agreement, which was released to the...
Sealingtech Boosts Production Of Dod Cyber Hunt Kits With NCS Technologies
MENAFN
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July 9, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) "Leveraging NCS's nearly 30-year large scale U.S. Government manufacturing experience will significantly increase SealingTech's Cyber Hunt Kit production for the DoD and drive cost efficiencies," says Brad Hatcher,...