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Corporate America could learn a lot from the business model of an ousted supermarket chain CEO.

Conservatives don't understand that the free market isn't about freedom, but economic power.

As the middle class shrinks and distrust of the establishment grows, a new Democratic strategy for the downwardly mobile may be both necessary and inevitable.

Soft-hearted versions of capitalism lead to a higher quality of life in Europe and Canada

Millennial Media founder and CEO Paul Palmieri has left the Baltimore mobile advertising company for a position working with technology startups for a prominent local venture capital firm.

The Baltimore County Council on Wednesday approved giving the county executive a $25,000 raise next year, as well as an $8,500 boost for their own positions.

The Baltimore County Council on Wednesday approved giving the county executive a $25,000 raise next year, as well as an $8,500 boost for their own positions.

An ethos has developed in this country where executives, even those of taxpayer supported non-profits, are lavished with high pay, perks and bonuses while their employees struggle to make ends meet

Congressman's outrage at AIG head who equated criticism of pay to Deep South lynchings was more than justified but answer lies in industry reforms, not resignation

Wage slavery in corporate America

Unfair to compare salaries of CEOs with those of workers employed by franchisees

Many Maryland hospital CEOs received pay increases in recent years even as they complained about shrinking profit margins and warned about cutbacks unless they could increase rates paid by patients.

A loophole allows companies to deduct the cost of sky-high salaries, and the rest of us pay for it through higher taxes.

What would America look like if our economic strategy was geared toward lifting up average workers?

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers shareholders voted disapproval of executive compensation at the annual meeting Friday, the same day the company declared plans to pursue acquisitions.

Price holds annual meeting and discusses loss of top manager, ETFs and Obama tax proposal

Exelon Corp. said Tuesday that its executive compensation package received an advisory OK from three-quarters of shareholder votes during the annual meeting, which the Chicago energy company held in Baltimore.

European workers have it better in the public and private sector than we do because of our unequal distribution of wealth.

While Hostess cut bakers' pay, its CEO and execs made out like bandits

The CEO pay disclosed this year by the 20 largest publicly traded companies in the Baltimore region offers plenty of fodder — as it does every year — to steam the ranks of workers with paychecks that barely budge.

A sortable list of salaries for executives at Maryland's largest public companies

The subject of the hearing was "Investing in an Effective Workforce." But as the meeting unfolded Wednesday in a wood-paneled room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, it became a celebration of Sen. Daniel Akaka's advocacy for federal employees.

New federal health care law is a big improvement over failed, insurance company-run system

Shareholders elected four people to Legg Mason's board of directors and approved a $4.9 million pay package for Chairman and CEO Mark R. Fetting at the Baltimore-based investment firm's annual meeting Tuesday morning.

Global warming demands a National Guard-like response to power outages

The failed recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tells us little about how the presidential election will unfold but much about the weakened state of organized labor.

Managers and executives at sparrows Point get salaries cut under cost savings plan by RG Steel.

Mayo A. Shattuck IlI -- who successfully engineered the sale of Constellation Energy Group to Chicago-based Exelon Corp. – took in $17.3 million in total compensation last year, a nearly 11 percent increase from 2010.

consumers get $1.3 billion in rebates from insurers

Congressman Barney Frank is not running for re-election this year, but he has an idea for a bumper stick his fellow Democrats can use in their campaigns — "We're not perfect, but they're nuts."

Sinclair Broadcast Group's chief executive David D. Smith earned $4.2 million last year, a 16 percent increase that included more than $2 million in stock option awards, the Hunt Valley-based broadcaster reported.

Even after Stanley Black & Decker shareholders rejected the tool and security company's executive pay plan last spring, the company paid Nolan D. Archibald, its chairman and the former CEO of Black & Decker, a total of $64.4 million in 2011.

Redmer Insurance Group has named Caesar Rossilli, a Harford County native and Kingsville resident, personal lines manager.

Defense cuts: Shrinking the Pentagon gives the U.S. a chance to bolster education, energy and infrastructure

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, launched an investigation into for-profit colleges Monday, seeking compensation information from top executives.

Stevenson University president Kevin J. Manning ranked among the highest paid private college presidents in the country in 2009, according to a salary survey released Monday by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Robert Reich argues that we should develop a Pledge of Allegiance for American corporations -- a code of conduct they can choose to follow or not, and which consumers can enforce.

Giving corporations incentive to bring home billions stashed overseas will lead to more hidden cash, higher deficits

At a time when greedy CEOs are public enemies, Apple co-founder was a reminder of what it once meant to be a captain of industry

Hurricane Irene: One unhappy customer's list of things the utility needs to improve