financial planning

Bay Bank announced a partnership Wednesday with Founders Financial Securities LLC to provide the Columbia-based bank's customers with financial management and investment services.

Jeff Cherry wants to transform the way that capitalism is practiced in Maryland.

The Board of Directors of Marshall Craft Associates is pleased to announce the election of new corporate officers. Effective January 1st, 2014, Stephen A. Bates, AIA now serves as President; Michelle S. Hooper, AIA as Vice President + Corporate Secretary; and Merrill A. Messick, III, AIA as Vice President + Treasurer. Founding officers Linton S. Marshall III, Michael S. Craft and Sherrie L. Kormann remain active Principals with the firm, contributing technical and practice management expertise.

Calling all foodies! On Thursday, April 10, from 6 to 10 p.m., the St. Jude Hope in the Harbor Gala is cooking up inspiration to fight childhood cancer at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum.

Lansdowne High School will hold its eighth annual Community Health and Safety Information Fair between 4 and 6 p.m. Thursday, March 20, in the school cafeteria.

There's no business like show business at Chapelgate Christian Academy. Though smaller in size and resources than local public schools, it presents a consistently stellar spring musical. This year's production? "Annie Get Your Gun,"

The Columbia Triathlon Association — one of the country's premiere endurance race organizers — expects to be taking event registrations again and offering reassurance to nervous athletes on its website next week after drafting a plan to put the organization back on more sound financial footing.

There's been a big jump in the number of parents who are giving their children allowances bigger than $10 or $20 a week, according to numbers crunched for Reuters by Baltimore-based money managers T. Rowe Price, which are derived from its annual Parents, Kids & Money surveys.

Concepts include 24-hour coffee and cookie shop on campus

The local nonprofit MakingChange is holding the third annual Y-Fi Challenge Saturday, Feb. 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Kittleman Room at Howard Community College in Columbia.

Giving the poor more choices sounds good, unless they make poor choices

Role involved administrative, as well as political, duties

What you need to know about year-end tax planning this year as the well-to-do face higher tax rates.

Twice this year, the city has awarded no-bid energy consulting contracts to a Baltimore company recommended by the head of the city's energy office, who was once listed as a "special partner" in the firm.

Students in the after-school BRIDGES program at Harper's Choice Middle School in Columbia are learning financial literacy through a computer game provided by Junior Achievement of Central Maryland.

Financial planner are fielding anxious questions from federal employees in the wake of the partial government shutdown. The appeal of federal work, besides good benefits, has long been stability — but not so much in the last few years, and the last few months in particular.

Maryland financial advisers and money managers say investors are concerned but not panicked yet by debt ceiling brinkmanship

St. Vincent de Paul Society's Front Door program is due in the Baltimore suburbs, where the population of poor has grown. Front Door recognizes that subsistence strategies like soup kitchen lines and homeless shelters are mere holding actions. The program teaches financial planning, among other skills, and moves clients into housing with the rent covered for a time.

An election is underway in the Town of Bel Air, but it might be a quiet one.

This summer, the shelter for women and children launched a program called "Front Door," which focuses on quickly finding housing.

Towson and Catonsville hit the Top 10 when it comes to best places in Maryland for young families, according to a new ranking by NerdWallet.

Head of Baltimore's water system has been unfairly pilloried for professional travels

A new Baltimore homeowner shares her experience of buying in the city for the first time.

Columbia Digest

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

Columbia Digest

This ruling opens up more issues to consider: Our taxes, credit, debt and investments will be affected.

Baltimore County Savings Bank celebrated joining Downtown Bel Air May 18 with the grand opening event of a new Bel Air branch

City school system has chronic financial failings

T. Rowe Price senior financial planner Stuart L. Ritter talks about parents' finances and how they can educate their kids about money matters.

Congratulations to Marriotts Ridge High School freshman Ben Skopic on his notable showing at the 2013 Maryland State Swimming Championships March 7-10 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

The East Columbia Branch of the Howard County Library System is holding a Money Matters Fair Saturday, April 6.

Though many adults have trouble balancing their checkbooks and managing finances, sixth graders at Lansdowne Middle School got a crash course in adulthood at Junior Achievement's BizTown

Howard County datebook

Tax season officially kicks off Wednesday, later than usual because lawmakers only this month passed legislation to address expired tax cuts. The IRS needed time to update its forms and systems.

Maryland's gain of about 22,000 jobs in 2012 is the smallest annual increase since the recession, underscoring the challenges facing the state in a year dominated by the federal budget and the collapse of a major employer.

United Way Family Stability Initiative helped Brooklyn Homes resident with rent, gifts, groceries

Towson kicks off the holiday season with black

What would a tax compromise by Congress and the White House look like?

Senior Briefs

Senior Briefs

The Center Club was the first club in Baltimore to admit Jewish and African-American members

Senior Briefs

James McCormick "Mickey" Webster Jr., an outstanding attackman who was co-captain of the 1959 Johns Hopkins University national championship team, died Friday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 75.

Bryan E. Kelly has been reelected chair and James J. Valdes has been reelected vice chair of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees.

Maryland has pursued questionable investment strategies that have underperformed and produced high fees.