Unemployment Claims Soar
Congressman Steny H. Hoyer says unemployment claims ought to set off alarm bells with the release of advance claim figures for Dec. 5 that show initial claims were 853,000, an increase of 137,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 4,000 from 712,000 to 716,000.
This Oven Doesn’t Cook Turkey: It Kills COVID
A heat sanitization box designed to assist frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed by entrepreneurs at TechPort, UAS proved instrumental in the FDA’s announcement on dry heat as an acceptable sanitation of certain respirators.
3 Oaks & WARM Adapt to Pandemic
Three Oaks Center is prepared to undertake an alternative to WARM’s homeless sheltering this winter, while it looks forward to the time when the WARM program will once again fully engage and provide the all-important service it has delivered in the past.
VADM Whitesell Leads TPP/ANA Panel
TPP/ANA panels resume Monday, Dec. 14, with “Jets, Props, and Vertical Lift: Dominant Power Projection and Sea Control,” featuring keynote speaker Air Boss VADM Kenneth Whitesell, Commander, Naval Air Forces and Commander, Naval Air Force, US Pacific Fleet.
New Tax Relief for MD Businesses
2020 tax year brings some new tax relief to Maryland partnerships, S-corporations, and other pass-through entities. Askey, Askey & Associates, CPA, LLC offers a few details for firms preparing to use the new provision in the upcoming tax filing season.
TechBridge: Commercial Service Agreements
The next installment of Tech Bridge@TechPort will be on commercial service agreements from 1 to 1:30 pm Dec. 10, 2020.
700MPH Bourbon Makes Headlines
Making “700 MPH Bourbon” may indeed be “crazy” — but the meet-up of Tobacco Barn Distillery and Art Nalls’ Sea Harrier is all for a good cause, says Scott Sanders.
Deadline Nears for Summer STEM Internships
The Patuxent Partnership is helping publicize apprenticeships, internships, and scholarship opportunities that will be available in summer 2021. Deadlines to apply are approaching.
More District 4 Congratulations
Congratulations stream in on the opening of the St. Mary’s County sheriff’s District 4 station opening on Great Mills Road in Lexington Park, MD.
Pax Partnership Elects New Board of Directors
The Patuxent Partnership recently elected its 2020-2021 Board of Directors.
