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Maryland employers hit the accelerator on job creation in February, adding 10,500 positions and bringing the state within shouting distance of recovering its recessionary losses — five years after they began.

When the heart says Baltimore and the head says D.C., follow the heart.

Jonah Goldberg says that the former vice president's ideas about single motherhood have become conventional wisdom.

Four of the six jurisdictions that have bounced back to their pre-recession levels of growth are in the Charm City metro.

Development planned around Penn Station could help maximize the value of passenger rail

More than 1,300 unmarried junior enlisted soldiers, sailors and other service members drive into Fort Meade every work day because they don't live on post — can't, actually, because the barracks are full and other homes there are for families.

Baltimore, coming off six decades of population decline, grew by 1,100 residents in 12 months, according to government estimates released Thursday.

Yes, our sports teams are better than theirs, but Lionel Foster says Pittsburgh holds lesson for Baltimore about post-industrial transformation

Racial diversity among officeholders hasn't kept up with changing demographics

The Baltimore area produces a lot of research, but the region is merely middling when it comes to patenting innovations. A new report suggests that high-profile efforts at change haven't taken hold yet.

Replacing our inaccurate measure of inflation would produce budget savings and more tax revenue.

Doyle McManus says that even if Obama wins the debt-ceiling fight, Democrats can't escape the entitlement problem.

U.S. should embrace school choice, not more government micromanagement

Michael O'Hanlon says that given the uncertainty after Karzai leaves, a flexible, two-phase withdrawal plan is best

Baltimore's economic performance over the last year ranks it 179th among the 300 largest metropolitan economies worldwide, according to a new report that describes the region as "partially recovered" from the last recession.

Senate Republicans have put President Obama in a no-win situation on his nomination for secretary of state; he should pick who he thinks is best and let the politics fall where they may.

My friend is an accomplished, caring person who is being unfairly demonized for her mistakes

Maryland employers added 14,000 jobs in October, improving the state's unemployment rate to 6.7 percent, the U.S. Department of Labor estimated Tuesday.

Fixing the fiscal cliff may be impossible as long as Republicans are stuck in the past

It's hard to imagine that voters care about Israel as much as the candidates do (or seem to)

Robert Reich says distaste for Republican policies is driving Romney's poll numbers down

Violence must be confronted, but the underlying issues are ripe for continued diplomacy

Fortunately for Gross-Ojekwe, gasoline prices are expected to level off in the coming weeks, experts say. But if the two events that pushed prices up to their current level — conflict in oil-producing Middle East countries and a hurricane passing through the Gulf of Mexico — worsen or recur, respectively, Marylanders like her may be forced to further change their spending habits to accommodate higher prices.

The Sparrows Point steel mill's temporary closure — in danger of turning permanent — leaves its younger workers staring at the grim possibility of many years of making do with less.

Unemployed workers with a high school education or less are locked out of three-quarters of the job openings in the Baltimore region.

Unsubstantiated tax-dodging claim against Romney by Reid is not only unfair it undermines Obama's legitimate case against the Republican's tax plan

Baltimore County's decision to cut nearly 200 teaching positions last year has had far-reaching consequences in high schools, where many more students are packed into classrooms after hundreds of classes were dropped from the rolls.