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Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld sworn into office

Mar 2, 2023

It started with the bus ride to school. Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld said that when he was a teenager, he used to take the Number 8 bus from North Baltimore to high school in West Baltimore every day. The more than hour-long journey across the city...

MDOT archaeologists find West African spirit cache at Harriet Tubman’s birthplace

Mar 1, 2023

Maryland Department of Transportation archaeologists were searching for homes of enslaved people on the farm where Harriet Tubman was born. They found a home – and a bit of Africa in the process. The discoveries, announced February 14 at an event at the Harriet...