Category: Prince George’s County News

ANNAPOLIS — After at least two years of noncompliance and threats of funding cuts from the U.S. Department of Justice, Maryland appears to be on track for compliance with federal rules meant to protect juveniles from interacting with adult offenders when they’re detained in adult facilities. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) requires […]

Villages of Marlborough (VOM) residents were informed that Marlborough Country Club was foreclosed on last week in a continuing and frustrating saga. At a February meeting with community residents, Hercules Pitts, the owner of Marlborough and Lake Arbor Gold Course, said a group of investors would help keep the golf courses in his possession.That evening […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker remains upbeat about the county’s health care woes, although budget constraints strangle nearly every facet of the county’s finances. “We want to make sure that everybody who needs health care in this county will have access,” Baker said earlier this month. A 2010 study conducted by Rand, a nonprofit […]

The state of Maryland, Prince George’s County and developers at Konterra Town Center have entered into an agreement to finish the last section of the Intercounty Connector (ICC). The agreement was four years in the making as the state and county avoided imminent domain proceedings with Konterra. “This innovative agreement benefits the public sector, the […]

Plans to develop the area around the Bowie State University MARC train station are progressing as Prince George’s County officials have applied some pressure. Earlier this month the County Council established the Bowie State MARC Station Development Board, which is charged with recommending companies for development, redevelopment and financing of the county-owned property in the […]

Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) is trying to fight back at a determination by the Department of Labor (DOL) that says the school system erred in compensating teachers in its H-1B temporary foreign worker visa program. PGCPS Superintendent William Hite, who said the county will appeal the decision, acknowledged mistakes were made, but said […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker had high praise for the City of Bowie in his April 7 State of the County address. Baker says the economic development experienced should be the model for the rest of the county. “I think its fitting that I’ve arrived here in Bowie where you’ve faced some of the […]

Controversy over the liquor license application process in Calvert County has African-American officials in the county furious. The county’s branch of the NAACP is upset over language in the license application process it believes contributes to discrimination. On March 14, the NAACP asked the liquor board to remove the requirement for applicants to disclose their […]

Prince George’s County Public Schools is still trying to figure out what it will do with its busing service after a letter from the Maryland attorney general’s office said it was illegal to ask parents to pay to bus their kids to magnet programs outside of neighborhood boundaries. Del. Jolene Ivey, D.-Dist. 47, requested that […]

A fight for more funding for the county’s nonprofits has turned into a power struggle of just who is in control of the county’s nonprofits. Sandy Pruitt, leader of People for Change of Prince George’s County organized a meeting for April 1 for all of the county’s nonprofits, under a new umbrella organization name of […]

ANNAPOLIS — In an attempt to fix the state’s most troubled agency without spending more money, lawmakers are asking the Department of Juvenile Services for reports rather than policy changes. A bill that would have mandated substantially equivalent services for girls has been amended to ask for a report from the department by December outlining […]

There aren’t many positive things coming out of the Prince George’s Department of Corrections (DOC). But its barber school, which is helping to reduce recidivism, is proving to be an exception. “We don’t blow our own horn enough,” said Mary Lou McDonough, director of DOC. “This is one of those programs where you can count […]