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A business columnist bids farewell and looks back

Jay Hancock — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500

It's not about more or less regulation; it's about the right regulation

There comes a time for every trader to tally the bets that paid off, revalue the stinkers and recalibrate assumptions according to changing facts.

Want to create jobs? Stop complaining and get to work

Jay Hancock — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:42:00 -0500

I located some job creators. Fells Point Wholesale Meats puts protein on the table every day at hundreds of restaurants and hotels from Cecil County to Northern Virginia.

Exelon gets tax cuts despite pledge to locate in Baltimore

Jay Hancock — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Among the many advantages Constellation Energy's headquarters gives Baltimore — Fortune 500 cachet, hundreds of well-paid workers, millions in charity — is this: The building pays sticker price on property taxes — $745,000 a year.

Mercantile discipline could make 1st Mariner shipshape

Jay Hancock — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:00:00 -0500

The winds of economic destruction blow as hard in Baltimore as anywhere else. But business brainpower tends to stay anchored to the land of pleasant living.

Exelon boss wants merger badly, and he's paying for it

Jay Hancock — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:01:00 -0500

John Rowe made no secret of the fact that he badly wanted a signature merger to top off his career as the chief executive of Exelon Corp. How badly can be seen in the settlement he just agreed to in Exelon's bid to purchase Baltimore's Constellation Energy.

Customers protest fund switch by Constellation suitor Exelon

Jay Hancock — Sat, 6 Aug 2011 16:34:00 -0400

The dismantling of Exelon Corp.'s Zion Station nuclear power plant near Chicago is setting several remarkable precedents.

Groupon: Baltimore restaurants hot and cold on deals

Jay Hancock — Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:57:00 -0400

Has The Prime Rib, which requires waiters to wear tuxes and exudes "the intoxicating aroma of old money," according to Esquire magazine, got a deep discount deal for you.

City raises stakes, questions in convention race

Jay Hancock — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

If you want to win an arms race, minor escalation is not the way to go. Only after President Ronald Reagan started developing a wildly expensive and impractical system to shoot down enemy missiles did the Soviet Union give up the Cold War.

This time, Constellation takeover will go through

Jay Hancock — Sun, 1 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

Sometime around May 2012, you will open your BGE statement and react with mild pleasure, perhaps, on seeing that your bill is reduced by $200 or so.

Exelon deal bad for Baltimore despite jobs claim

Jay Hancock — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:36:00 -0400

Nobody knows better than Mayo Shattuck, the former investment banker, that economic value is determined by future cash flows.