Hogan expected to get post with governors association

Gov. Larry Hogan is expected to be elected vice chairman this weekend of the National Governors Association, a bipartisan group that represents the nation’s governors. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat, is expected to be elected as chairman when association holds its summer meeting in Santa Fe, N.M., this weekend. Hogan, a Republican, has been a member of the association’s executive committee since 2017. Hogan will also become chairman of the NGA’s finance committee and best practices board, according to the governor’s office. He already is co-chairman of the NGA’s Water Policy Learning Network. As vice chairman, Hogan is positioned to become chairman of the governors association for 20192020. The association’s chairman and vice chairman come from opposite parties, selected by the Democratic Governors Association and the Republican Governors Association. The vice chairman automatically succeeds the chairman. A dozen construction workers renovating a Navy Federal Credit Union building in Odenton were hospitalized Tuesday morning for carbon monoxide exposure from a propane-powered saw, the Anne Arundel County Fire Department said in a news release. Firefighters and paramedics were called to the building at 1179 Annapolis Road about 8 a.m. The crew had been working for about three hours when they reported headaches, dizziness, nausea and difficulty breathing, the Fire Department said. The members of the crew — 11 men and one woman ranging in age from 22 to 55 — were taken by ambulance to hospitals for treatment. Their names were not released. Six were taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center for possible treatment at the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine. The other six were taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Three of the patients wereinserious but not life-threatening conditions. The rest had “possibly serious symptoms,” the Fire Department said. Federal employees began arriving for work before 9 a.m. and were barred from entering until the Fire Department had ventilated the building. The building was reopened to the branch staff about 45minutes later, after a subsequent test found no further carbon monoxide readings in the building.