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- At a Baltimore County Council work session on Jan. 31, the Department of Economic Development requested that the council approve the authorization of up to $4.5 million in bonds on behalf of Alberee Products. The bonds would be used by the windshield wiper manufacturer for new equipment and the purchase and renovation of the building where it currently operates.
- Applying the Maryland sales tax toward gasoline would be a move toward fiscal responsibility
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Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to apply Maryland's 6 percent sales tax to gasoline, a change that at current prices would add 18 cents a gallon to the cost at the pump. - Retired automotive executive and longtime Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge volunteer expanded mission of support group
- Proposed plans for car dealership expansion and doctor office conversion brought before Development Advisory Committee
- Kodak went bankrupt because its executives thought they were selling film — when in fact their business was in selling treasured memories.
- During the first 10 months of 2011, the Port of Baltimore's public and two private auto terminals handled more cars than any other U.S. port — a first for the port.
- Harford County's good credit rating and competent fiscal management means there will be money available for several public works projects at a time when employment resulting from such projects is sorely needed. Just think how much better off we would be as a nation if the federal government could do the same thing.
- Red light, speed cameras remain controversial even as numbers grow
- Yellow Cab brings back Tipsy? Taxi! on New Year's Eve
- The costs to put on the Baltimore Grand Prix were way out of line.
- Maryland highway deaths dropped 10 percent in 2010 compared to the year before.
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- Baltimore County has again earned a AAA bond rating from the three major rating agencies, county officials said Wednesday.
- Flush tax: Before raising the fee, change state law to allow a longer bond repayment period
- The National Center on Institutions and Alternatives Youth in Transition School has added a $500,000, fully equipped replica of a car care center to its Woodlawn campus.
- TV station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc sees fourth-quarter core broadcast revenue growing on higher ad spend from Japanese auto makers and rising political ad spending, and said it bought eight television stations for $385 million.
- Howard County is preparing for the county's $200 million bond sale Tuesday, buoyed by a AAA credit rating the county just earned from all three major bond rating agencies.
- Lowe's has pulled out as an anchor of the proposed 25th Street Station in Remington, a retail and housing development that won city approval nearly a year ago but has been stalled by court challenges.
- Howard County has been awarded a AAA credit rating from all three major bond rating agencies for the 14th straight year.
- Tax reform: Gov. Warner persuaded a much more conservative state to raise revenues
- Glenwood/Glenelg: The Mullinix Corn Maze on Carrs Mill Road, across from Western Regional Park, is open for business weekends through Oct. 30.
- Students have been back to school for just over a month, but already Amy Syversen, director of bands at Dayton Oaks Elementary School, is proud to name a scale star. Students are rewarded for each scale played by memory, and receive additional recognition for achieving memorization of all scales on their scale sheet.
- West Friendship: The Howard County Fairgrounds will get a workout this weekend with a number of events coming to our area.
- Two people from Severn have been indicted in the fatal hit and run accident that claimed the lives of two teens from Pigtown in June
- 100th anniversary of Vin Fiz flight still remembered at Mt. Felix in Havre de Grace
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- Hoteliers and merchants at Maryland and Delaware resorts are eager to show Labor Day travelers that there is life after Hurricane Irene — but they may have their work cut out for them, according to travel industry analysts.
- Batteries flying off the shelves as people buy them for Hurricane Irene
- Catonsville fire department replaced its Cadillac ambulance with a cheaper, stronger and more durable Chevrolet version.
- After Baltimore's big Grand Prix extravaganza next month, the intractable problems facing the city will still be there
- Several municipalities and the state of Maryland are waiting to see if there will be any trickle-down effects from the S&P downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
- Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade U.S. debt underscores market woes and an unwillingness to embrace political compromise
- The name of John Gilbert Collison Sr. has been largely forgotten today, but his invention of the artificial steel hip ball more than 60 years ago has given relief to patients worldwide suffering from fractured hips.
- Obama administration proposal to raise car and light truck fuel efficiency standards is a victory for automakers, the environment and national security
- A recent survey showed that dog owners, a group to which I once belonged, by and large do as I once did: They let the animal ride without restraint. After all, who would put a seat belt on a dog?
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- Even a state like Maryland, with its AAA bond rating, could see its borrowing costs increase if the federal government fails to raise the debt ceiling.
- Although residents complained to the Prince George's County Council about the reliability of Lanham-based Optotraffic's speed camera technology, the county hired Optotraffic to install and maintain speed cameras.
- A list of people arrested by Harford County law enforcement over the past few days
- The Towson-based AAA Mid-Atlantic says 56 percent of drivers responding to a national survey of pet owners said they have driven with their dog at least once a month in the past year — and more than half said they've had some physical contact with the dog while driving, either petting it, holding it or using their hands to keep it out of the front seat.
- Sen. Mitch McConnell's proposed out for the debt limit talks was helpful, but ultimately, House Speaker John Boehner holds the key to averting economic catastrophe.
- Robert L. "Bob" Bell, who began his career in auto sales in the 1950s which later grew into today's Bob Bell Automotive Group, died Sunday of leukemia at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
- Robert L. "Bob" Bell, who began his career in auto sales in the 1950s which later grew into today's Bob Bell Automotive Group, died Sunday of leukemia at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
- Maryland state troopers continued to search through the night for an armed man who attacked a speed enforcement vehicle on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near the BWI Marshall Airport exit.
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- As Maryland drivers cruise into the July 4 holiday, they can think of their gas tanks as either half empty or half full.