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If you're waking up with a slight buzz as a result of too much New Year's Eve revelry, you might consider skipping this column.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is gearing up for a tough fight over her plan to raise Baltimore's bottle tax from 2 cents to 5 cents to pay for repairs to dilapidated city schools.

North Baltimore's first brewery planned in old bottling plant in Abell/Waverly

Maryland should take a cautious approach to web-based lottery ticket sales despite their potential as a lucrative fix to the state's ailing budget

The Providence Center has grown from serving 7 people to serving 500 and its latest plan is to expand job and life prospects for its disabled clientele while creating a mini Torpedo Factory in Arnold.

A Cockeysville man whose wife was killed in an accident last year when her car was struck by a tractor-trailer appeared Wednesday on Capitol Hill to argue against a proposal to allow truck drivers to spend more time on the road.

This year more than ever, the lines between Thanksgiving and the post holiday shopping day seem to have permanently blurred.

To level the field for Maryland-based retailers, state must act boldly and go after the millions of dollars in unpaid sales taxes from online firms

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to propose Monday a plan to boost yearly funding for public school construction by $23 million, in part by increasing the city's bottle tax to 5 cents.

Without guest workers, Maryland crab industry would fail and that would be costly to local economy

Two AACC initiatives offer a first-hand look at the restaurant business.

Mikulski shouldn't block proposed change that favors foreign workers in state's seafood industry

The mobile app economy is real – and it's brewing in Baltimore.

Following outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe from Colorado farm, those who grow and sell cantaloupes here say fruit is safe

Dairy farmers are an increasingly rare breed in Maryland, where such operations are disappearing at twice the national average. Nearly 65 percent of the state's dairy farmers have left the industry in the past 20 years, including 34 operations last year, according to the Dept. of Agriculture.

The state has spent more than $131,000 and countless hours of study in a bid for the Marine Stewardship Council's seal of approval, a symbol of sustainability held by about 10 percent of the world's fish species and fish products

Michelle Obama at the Olive Garden

Members of Maryland's seafood industry are fighting a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would require businesses to pay higher wages for temporary guest workers who come to the U.S. each summer to pick crabs and shuck oysters.

Latest push to repeal the city's year-old 2-cent tax on beverage containers is irresponsible

Maryland crabbers meet to map out a more sustainable livelihood

While retail chains around the country were shutting stores and cutting costs in the face of shrinking profits, Jos. A Bank was expanding and investing.

From cupcakes to pilates, yarn to fashion, these mother-daughter duos thrive in Howard County

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Sykesville resident Pete Truby is the brains behind Salazon Chocolate, a two-year-old line of organic, fair-trade, dark chocolate that has carved out its niche by featuring natural sea salt.

James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.

James Edgar Byron, former mayor of Williamsport who was a scion of an old Maryland political family, died July 2 of heart failure at his farm in Shepherdstown, W.Va. He was 83.

For many small investors, some of the companies they are most familiar with are the e-commerce and social media sites they use every day.

A quick perusal of the clothing racks at a department store shows why so many people in the United States can't find work.

Baltimore trunk show takes fabric off sofa and puts it on the runway

MyPlate does not make you want to chow down, but it does deliver a simple message

The rise of consumerism and the hunger world-wide for an American lifestyle will overwhelm any gains we make from increasing the energy efficiency of cars and other goods.

Budget deficits, changing practices could spell end for agricultural subsidies

Owners of Noveau Contemporary in Belvedere Square share trends from this year's market

Leave the oysters to clean up the bay; those we eat we should grow ourselves