One parent said her child is so afraid of catching COVID-19 that he wanted to quit school. — On Aug. 23, P.G. County Public School administrators, local government officials, and board members assembled in a Zoom meeting with the hopes of providing answers to parents and guardians worried about letting their children return…

Thousands of people residents remain either vaccinated or partially vaccinated. “If you want to protect the surrounding people or help to break the chain of transmission, then the second dose [or completing your vaccination] helps us all to get out of this trouble.” — Dr. …

What restorative programs will the church fund? After publicly repenting, asking individual churches within the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland to unearth their connections to the transatlantic slave trade, resulting in The Trail of Souls Project, and engaging in much internal debate, the diocese has officially set aside $1 million —…

With federal action on the issue looking unlikely, state legislators are considering proposals that would eliminate or limit the scope of qualified immunity for police officers. — By Emma Coleman, a reporter at Route Fifty This story is part of the SoJo Exchange from the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. When Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler visited his city’s protests on Wednesday night, demonstrators posed a series of questions to him. The first? Whether he supports…