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Marylanders Love Gov. Larry Hogan, Support Later School Start: Poll
The Goucher Poll asked residents about their opinions on several Maryland topics. Gov. Larry Hogan received strong support, with 70 percent job approval. The poll found 68 percent support moving the official start of the school year until after Labor Day.

Thirty-six percent of Maryland residents are “not at all” or “a little” concerned over an outbreak of a disease like the Zika virus and 64 percent are “somewhat” or “very” concerned. >>> Read more.

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Freddie Gray to Freedom House: Maryland History in New African-American Museum
From a freed slave house in Montgomery County to photographs of Baltimore’s unrest after Freddie Gray’s death, Maryland’s black experience throughout history is broadly represented in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture that opened over the weekend in Washington. >>> Read more.

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