During the last recession, contractors struggled to provide enough work for their current employees and could not afford to bring on new apprentices for electrical, carpentry and other trades. Now, in the midst of a construction boom, aging employees are retiring from skilled trades with no one to fill their shoes. Today, over three-quarters of contractors say they are having…
Glenarden Track Club makes Local & National News
The Glenarden Track Club won seven events at the 2019 AAU National Indoor Track and Field championships at the Sports and Learning Complex in Palmer Park from March 8-10. The winners are: Payton Payne won the girls 60 Meter dash in the 12-year-old category in a time of 7.81. She also won the 200…
The dark specter of an authoritarian government hangs over the City of Glenarden
A City Councilmember that micromanages is, plain and simple, a control freak. The work environment is stifling because he wants control over all decisions. This Councilmember distrusts the team, so tasks rarely get delegated to others. Typically, you’ll find there’s hardly room for group discussion or input because the management style is autocratic, which limits…
Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate who transfigured American literature, dies at 88
Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who conjured a black girl longing for blue eyes, a slave mother who kills her child to save her from bondage and other indelible characters who helped transfigure a literary canon long closed to African Americans, died Aug. 5 at a hospital in the Bronx. She was 88. Paul…
SYEP 2019 Program Prince George’s County
Our young people are also learning professional life learning skulls in Government Office Management and Professionalism. Here are other examples thorughout Prince George’s County Government.