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How the Ravens built a winning brand
When the Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans last week, the team crossed a threshold for sports franchises: They joined 11 other teams in the National Football League to have won more than one Super Bowl in the 47 years the game has...
Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Media Industry, National Football League, Washington Redskins, Super Bowl XLVII
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FTC: One of four consumers has a credit report error
Credit reports contain information about us that essentially will determine how much we pay for insurance, auto loans and other forms of credit. That’s because information in credit reports is used to generate credit scores, which lenders and others...Tags: Credit and Debt, Finance, Equifax Incorporated
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Don't let CA out from under HOAA provisions [Letter]
CA has presented its general plan for transforming CA-owned Symphony Woods into an urban park containing several buildings, including a new headquarters for CA. CA President Phillip Nelson advises that park construction and operation is to be directed... -
Greener power
For all the hysteria generated by climate-change deniers over how reducing greenhouse gas emissions would be disastrous for consumers and the economy, Maryland and the other eight states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative are demonstrating that...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Conservation, Barack Obama, Energy Resources, Ecosystems
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Harford delegates, senators to push for school construction, fight gun control in General Assembly
Harford's delegation to the Maryland General Assembly will be tackling a number of major bills this year, including those dealing with gun control and the death penalty. Some elected officials, like Sen. Nancy Jacobs, plan to fight those measures....
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Martin O'Malley, Credit and Debt, Sales
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Business 'steady' at new Laurel Walgreens
Laurel residents used to have to travel to Clarksville, Columbia, Silver Spring or farther if they wanted to shop at a Walgreens. Now, they have one right in their own neighborhood. "We didn't have any Walgreens within 10 miles of here, and we knew...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Glen Burnie, CVS Corp., Clarksville, Monro Muffler Brake Incorporated
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Mortgage settlement: not enough relief
Almost a year after five big banks signed a $25 billion national mortgage settlement with 49 state attorneys general last February, too few families are getting relief, too many of those getting some help continue to lose their homes to short sales, and...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Barack Obama, Prince George's County, Bank of America Corp., Loans
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A year of challenges for city residents
A year ago, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gave an inaugural address that was both lofty in vision and grounded in reality — the poetry of growing Baltimore by 10,000 residents in the next decade tempered by the prose of how to get there. "We...
Tags: Public Officials, Credit and Debt, Property, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Johns Hopkins University
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Obama should sidestep Congress
Incumbent presidents don't run for reelection simply to preserve first-term accomplishments. Presidents and presidential candidates are men and women of big ambition, driven by the immense self-confidence required to run for the job and a desire to...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, White House, Litigation and Regulation
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Businesses, consumers need a break on wireless taxes
Today's economy has been tough on Maryland's small businesses. With consumers struggling with less disposable income and the state's unemployment rate stuck stubbornly high at near 7 percent, businesses have had to cut costs and tighten their belts any...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Luxury Goods Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Elections, Business
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Five questions with Vince Talbert
For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has focused on one thing: Bill Me Later.
The 45-year-old Baltimore native co-founded the online payment company with three partners in 2000. The company helps Internet shoppers buy stuff online without a credit...Tags: University of Virginia, Towson University, Marketing, Citigroup Incorporated, eBay Inc.
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The GOP's cynical debt limit ploy
With President Barack Obama holding his ground on tax increases for the wealthy, congressional Republicans appear intent to make a tactical retreat from the fiscal cliff to an issue where they believe they have more leverage: the nation's debt ceiling....
Tags: Parties and Movements, National Government, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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