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So where's Monty Hall when you really need him? Of the three Election Day choices now hidden behind voting booth curtains, one might be the grand prize, one might not [...]

GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY The need to plan for retirement usually comes high on the list of requirements which most expatriates have when looking at their personal finance strategy. There are [...]

BALTIMORE -- The last time Major League Baseball's All-Stars played here, they rode in a parade around town, played a game in the 4-year-old Memorial Stadium and left. What a [...]

BALTIMORE -- Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. must allow independent auditors to examine its books to see if the company's energy customers are subsidizing its retail stores, undercutting prices charged [...]

LINTHICUM -- If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it still make a sound? Well, yes, of course. But the bigger question is: how much [...]

BALTIMORE -- During the 1970s gas was in short supply, due to the Arab oil embargo and a nationwide energy crisis. Extending new gas lines and supplying gas to homes [...]

BALTIMORE -- The term outdoor marketplace never had greater irony. Once live chickens, corned beef and other Old World delicacies were traded with splendor along Lombard Street just east of [...]

Corporate jets have such a bad rap these days some companies don't even want to acknowledge they have them, let alone parade their top executives across the tarmac the way [...]

BALTIMORE -- Just hours after the state's new keno lottery game began churning out numbers every five minutes on Monday, a man playing at Partners on Ponca Street came up [...]

ANNAPOLIS -- Despite a change of faces in the White House and recent assurances that the recession is a thing of the past, the 1993 General Assembly is facing a [...]

PIKESVILLE -- The former owners of bankrupt Bonded Jewelry Center are back in business, this time competing with each other from two new locations across the street. But since the [...]

As local chief executives, many of them freshman, and many elected on a pro-business platform, enter their third year in office, they are beginning to bolster their campaign chests. While [...]

FORK -- Famed newspaper owner William Randolph Hearst may have never known about one of his greatest legacies: llamas. Legend holds that the Hearst herd of llamas, imported from Germany [...]

Read his lips -- no layoffs, no furloughs. That's the message Howard County Executive Charles Ecker is delivering in response to his second year in office and his second major [...]

BALTIMORE -- Thirty-three years ago, Markman Specialties began making trophies and plaques from a small storefront at Charles and Center streets. Now a full-range promotional specialties shop, it has been [...]

But owner Eli S. Jacobs reportedly still pursuing sale of his Orioles BALTIMORE -- More than a year after Eli S. Jacobs had his bankers seek potential buyers for the [...]

As Baltimore's business leaders express dismay with the local and national economy, they don't see dumping George Bush as the answer. In the Baltimore Business Barometer quarterly survey of 150 [...]

Customers are running rings around Saturn dealerships as factory slowdowns, a strike and excellent reviews have pushed demand levels well ahead of supply. Baltimore-area dealers say there aren't enough cars [...]

TOWSON -- Is nothing sacred? There was a time when a glitzy, schmaltzy, hyped-up diner would have gotten as much respect in Baltimore as a dinner honoring Bob Irsay as [...]

WESTMINSTER -- Recent personnel shifts in Carroll County's office of economic development appear to send two very clear, if contradictory, signals to the business community -- the county commissioners think [...]

ANNAPOLIS -- Coming soon to a local government near you, Budget Crisis Two: More cuts. More blood. More agony than the original. But while Anne Arundel County awaits further painful [...]

Defense cuts could hurt, but how much? ANNAPOLIS -- One of the most commonly asked questions by visitors to the Naval Academy here is, 'Where's Annapolis?' It is almost impossible [...]

TOWSON -- A confidential internal document given to Baltimore County Executive Roger B. Hayden a full year ago forewarned that the county's Economic Development Commission was riddled with problems, citing [...]

HANOVER -- Ken Luhn never expected his avocation would so suddenly become his vocation. But then again, how many white-collar workers in this country ever expected that their companies were [...]

Budgets reflect little faith in state projections If Chicken Little were a budget director for a Maryland county, she'd be getting a little more respect around here. Since the state's [...]

WASHINGTON -- Within the concentric circles -- geographical and political -- that contain the Eastern and Western Shores of the Chesapeake Bay, and Capitol Hill, all eyes are on the [...]

TOWSON -- They are neck and neck now, coming down the home stretch. But when the race started for the new home of the Health Care Financing Administration, the city [...]

In a country where urban racial tensions are suddenly fixed on the national agenda, in a city where minorities are the majority, the percentage of African-Americans serving on public company [...]

Cook's resignation leaves future role of Economic Development Commission in doubt TOWSON -- Now that A. Samuel Cook has resigned as chairman of Baltimore County's Economic Development Commission, business leaders, [...]

Massive environmental problems face facility EDGEWOOD -- The toxic waste cleanup at Aberdeen Proving Ground could cost close to $900 million by the time it's over, according to revised figures [...]

BALTIMORE -- When one of Gerry Dunn's customers came into his pawn shop with a set of carpenter's tools, Dunn's greatest hopes had been confirmed -- pawn shops, once smelly, [...]

ANNAPOLIS -- Taking one of the latest political buzzwords and giving it new life, Anne Arundel County's economic development chief is looking to privatize his department. Michael S. Lofton, director [...]

Partners in competing camps for Texas track BALTIMORE -- The partners in Laurel and Pimlico race-courses are in competing camps to build a thoroughbred track in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. [...]

Downtown growth beats all of the odds against it ABERDEEN -- As the town of Aberdeen celebrates its 100th anniversary, planners and government officials, merchants and residents celebrate their past [...]

Firm eyes sales of $100M in five years COLUMBIA -- While some may consider the national plan to increase consumer spending a little Bush-whacked, one company here is marketing a [...]

ELLICOTT CITY -- Howard County Executive Charles I. Ecker likes a good recession. Downturns can get hot enough to light fires under the feet of local government and burn away [...]

After nearly a century farming their land in Carroll County, the Baugher family still cultivates business on tenacity, paternalistic foresight and sweat. Not to mention two steers a week. All [...]

It's how you play the game David Shapiro built it, and they came. A year ago, he opened Sports, an indoor facility with outdoor activities. And they come to play [...]

Even execs feel pinch of recession The economic downturn has even pinched Baltimore's highest paid executives. The area's largest companies cut back on raises to their top executives, and officers [...]

Harry L. Robinson huddled inside a doorway, conferring with advisors on last-minute preparations for Baltimore Bancorp's annual meeting. Outside in the hotel lobby, Edwin Hale met with reporters to discuss [...]

Taking on the tax assessors These are the worst of times, these are the best of times. Though slightly off their Dickensian mark, these are words to live by for [...]

Drawing lines in the sand Scott Edmonds has the whole world in his hands. Literally. When he drew the lines in the sand separating Saudi Arabia from Iraq and Iraq [...]

Once a Starr, always a Starr Earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings. For years she was known for taking them, and the rest of her wardrobe, off. Oh, Blaze Starr is [...]

BALTIMORE -- A German pharmaceutical company should soon complete a design for the state's grand experiment in nurturing biotechnology companies -- a subsidized manufacturing facility that will help fledgling firms [...]

BALTIMORE -- As of May 1, Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. is in the kitchen remodeling business, and according to experts, it is the only utility in the country to [...]

BALTIMORE -- When Jim O'Hara's loan officer called a $150,000 loan, his business, Industrial Machine Inc., had to face facts: the defense industry was shrinking and major defense companies had [...]

BALTIMORE -- Luckily, several members of the investment committee of the Development Credit Fund had savored the unique Mediterranean sandwiches sold from a lunch cart on Light Street. On the [...]

Suit says bank actions forced bankruptcy BALTIMORE -- A Towson venture capitalist has filed a lawsuit here that claims Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. lent him money to invest in [...]