Meeting the Moment: Finding Opportunity in Uncertain Times
If you’re feeling unsettled right now, you’re not alone. Across the country—and especially here in Maryland—people doing important work are staring down a moment of real uncertainty. Researchers counting on federal grants, local governments trying to balance their budgets, businesses navigating shifting regulations, nonprofits wondering if their funding is about to dry up. It’s a tough time to plan when so much seems up in the air. Recent events have only heightened the tension. A White House executive order temporarily freezing federal funds sent organizations scrambling, unsure if the money they’d been counting on would still come through. Maryland’s $3 billion budget deficit is already sparking debates about cuts and tax increases, with the impacts likely to ripple through state contracts and programs. And in the energy world, the explosion of AI-driven data centers has been driving major infrastructure decisions—until new research (most recently the release of DeepSeek) threw...
