Liz Bowie is an education reporter for The Baltimore Banner. She spent more than two decades covering city, county and state education issues for The Baltimore Sun.
Her favorite stories are those that focus on students. She was a Spencer Fellow in Education Reporting at Columbia University. She grew up in Baltimore.
Before headlining Magooby’s Joke House, ”Abbott Elementary” star and Silver Spring native Lisa Ann Walter talks about her Maryland roots, winning “Celebrity Jeopardy!” and more.
As temperatures climbed to nearly 100 degrees, an audience of attorneys and onlookers crowded into the courtroom on Aug. 3, 1993, to watch Peter G. Angelos square off against a New York art dealer. For 16 rounds, the two sides slugged it out, offering higher and higher sums.
In the office of Baltimore Sheriff John W. Anderson hangs an autographed photograph of former Gov. William Donald Schaefer, who first appointed Anderson to the role in 1989.
Maryland gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore sought to address the difficult challenge of helping young people transition to college when he founded BridgeEdU in 2014. But universities that hired the company say the programs were expensive and not as effective as they'd hoped. BridgeEdU was sold and its programs shuttered in 2019.