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The Interview: Anita Newcomb, banking consultant
In coming years your community bank may be merging with a rival, closing branches and redesigning the interiors of branches that remain, says Columbia-based banking consultant Anita G. Newcomb. With nearly three decades of experience running banks,...Tags: Investment Service, Investments, Prices, Banking, Business
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Councilman reflects on his first term representing Catonsville, Arbutus
Though he took office a year ago, it feels like yesterday for Councilman Tom Quirk.
With a hectic schedule like he had last month, it's no wonder the first-term Democrat feels time has flown by as he represents District 1, which includes Arbutus,...Tags: Tom Quirk, John Murphy, The Happiest News!, Catonsville, Finance
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First Mariner's Hale retires
Edwin F. Hale Sr., the Baltimore trucking magnate and developer, said Friday that he has retired as chief executive and chairman of First Mariner Bancorp — the banking company he built, only to scramble in the housing market collapse and recession...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Highlandtown, Realty, Mercantile Bankshares Corp.
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If you resolve to pay off credit cards this year, do it right
Many consumers will resolve to pay off their credit cards for the new year, and their intentions are in the right place. But according to a recent study, how they go about it is likely to be wrong.
Mathematically, consumers are best off eliminating the...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Finance, Credit and Debt, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Personal Finance
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Office of People's Counsel seeks assurances for BGE's low-income customers
As the economy has faltered over the past three years, more BGE customers have been in danger of losing their electric service because of overdue bills.
Now, as BGE parent Constellation Energy Group seeks to sell itself to Exelon Corp., the state's...Tags: Constellation Energy Group, Companies and Corporations, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Poverty, Finance
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Mercantile discipline could make 1st Mariner shipshape
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. Alex. Brown is long gone, but the firm's tradition and former employees carry on at Brown...Tags: Ed Hale, Real Estate, Loans, Realty, Baltimore Grand Prix
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State helps protect Baltimore archives
Baltimore was in danger of losing many of its most precious documents several years ago.
A rented building near Druid Hill Park that was used to house the city's historic archives failed to meet even minimal standards for proper records storage. It was...Tags: Jessup (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Freemasonry, Conservation, Johns Hopkins University, Samuel Chase
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Uncertain year ahead for U.S. stocks
Investors had plenty to keep them jittery in 2011. There were the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, economic woes in Europe, and, here at home, politically tinged fiscal showdowns in Washington over deep government spending cuts.
Still, the stock market...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Barack Obama, Johns Hopkins University, White House, Ben Bernanke
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December: Guilty plea in 2010 Bel Air murder; teacher bonus bungled
A 21-year-old Parkville man received a 25-year sentence for the July 18, 2010 shooting death of Derrick Maxey Jr. in the parking lot of the American Legion Post on Bond Street in Bel Air.
Rakim Raid Muhammad pleaded guilty to second degree murder and use...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Punishment, Teaching and Learning, Martin O'Malley, Forestry and Timber
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City 'affordable housing' fund destroys more houses than it builds
A cluster of vacant rowhouses in the 1600 block of North Gay Street succumbed to the metal claw of an excavator this month, as yet another batch of unwanted city homes turned to rubble.
Once the East Baltimore tract is cleared, nothing will be built...Tags: Homes, Helen Holton, Budgets and Budgeting, Rentals, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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The Record's top 10 stories of 2011
The year that ends at midnight Saturday with the annual Duck Drop and fireworks at Havre de Grace Middle School was full of the good and the bad. There was the usual – mayoral elections in Aberdeen and Havre de Grace and heavy snowfalls. And the not...Tags: Native American Gaming Management, Hurricane Irene (2011), Labor Legislation, Local Elections, Rentals
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O'Malley writes to Sparrows Point lender
Gov. Martin O'Malley has asked a key lender to R.G. Steel to reconsider its decision to freeze some company funds, saying the move has contributed to the firm's decision to lay off workers at its Sparrows Point mill. In a letter dated Wednesday, O'Malley...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Executive Branch, Finance, Martin O'Malley, Regional Authority
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