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• Business

Tenable Network Security taps head of Dell Technologies cybersecurity unit as CEO

Amir Yoran, the president of RSA, will take the helm at the fast-growing Columbia cyber security company on Jan. 3.

By Sarah Gantz

Dec 15, 2016

• Laurel Leader

New Laurel Library wows hundreds on opening day

The new Laurel Branch Library opened its doors to the public on Monday, Nov. 28 after being rebuilt from the ground up.

By Andrew Michaels

Nov 28, 2016

• Features

This Week in History: Nov. 20-26: President John F. Kennedy assassinated

• Business

Tenable Network Security makes first acquisition

Tenable Network Security Inc. has acquired FlawCheck, a San Francisco firm that specializes in security for Docker containers.

By Sarah Gantz

Oct 26, 2016

• Health

EY and Hopkins join forces to make medical facilities safer

Consulting firm EY is partnering with Johns Hopkins Medicine to help make hospitals and other health care organizations safer.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Oct 25, 2016

• Maryland

With little money or oversight, untrained volunteers set up Maryland's medical marijuana industry

A panel of volunteers hired three years ago to do a very different job are now overseeing the rocky launch of the medical marijuana industry in Maryland.

By Erin Cox

Oct 11, 2016

• Business

Chicago investment firm makes majority investment in R2integrated

Baird Capital will provide financial and operational support to take the Baltimore digital marketing firm to the next stage of growth.

By Sarah Gantz

Sep 15, 2016

• Microsoft

Around the county

Here's what's going on around the ROMG area.

• Business

Raymond James bringing back Alex. Brown name

The legacy Baltimore investment bank is bank, after nearly 20 years under the Deutsche Bank name.

By Sarah Gantz

Sep 6, 2016

• Education

Criticism leveled at schools for Maryland juvenile offenders

The Baltimore Sun has found that in overseeing the roughly 5,000 students a year in Maryland's state-run juvenile facilities, the state's Department of Education has failed to meet the very standards it enforces in public school districts. And though laws say that juvenile offenders are entitled to the same education as their peers in public schools, interviews and records show serious shortcomings.

• Baltimore City Paper

Free Will Astrology 9/3/14

• Colleges and Universities

Maryland eyed for data center with power plant

Maryland is in the running for a data storage center with its own sizable power plant, a project planned for the University of Delaware until officials there spiked it amid an uproar over its scale and effect on the community.

• Maryland

Eldersburg Public Library Aug. 13-19

• Sun Investigates

MdTA police launch probe of K-9 unit

• Sun Investigates

MdTA police launch probe of K-9 unit

• Maryland

Carroll unemployment dips to lowest in over 5 years

Carroll County helps to find and keep new jobs

• Harford

Abingdon residents advised on avoiding scams

Scammers have developed a variety of methods of convincing unsuspecting people to give them money, but local residents can protect themselves from being victims in many cases by knowing the tricks scammers use, a representative of the Maryland Attorney General's Office told those who gathered for a meeting of the Abingdon Community Council Monday evening.

• Opinion

Forging a smart growth economy [Commentary]

The best state in the nation for innovation and entrepreneurship three years in a row is Maryland. This is according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (hardly a mouthpiece for the Maryland Democratic Party), which also ranks Maryland No. 1 for STEM employment and No. 3 for our "Talent Pipeline."

• Real Estate

Oracle to buy Columbia's Micros Systems in $5.3 billion deal

Silicon Valley software giant Oracle Corp. announced a deal Monday to buy Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, eyeing the Columbia firm for its niche supplying technology to hotels, restaurants and retailers around the world.

• Microsoft

Microsoft store opening Saturday in Towson Town Center

Maryland will get its second Microsoft store on Saturday with an opening at Towson Town Center, the technology giant announced Monday.

• Howard County

Howard County creates online tool to report scams

Howard County's Office of Consumer Affairs unveiled an online tool for residents to learn about scams Tuesday, according to a County press release.

• Maryland

Library Schedule (June 18-24)

• Howard County

Howard County creates online tool to report scams

• Howard County

Microsoft opens specialty store at Columbia mall

The open air kiosk-style store, which is one of 93 across North America, is located in the mall's center court on the lower level, and resembles a holiday "pop up store" that operated in center court from December 2012 to February 2013.

• Baltimore City Paper

Citypaper.com Sheds Its Skin: New Web Site Layout; Google Gives Us the Checkered Flag

• Baltimore City Paper

We Feed Dead People

• Baltimore City Paper

April 5, 2000

• Baltimore City Paper

Nov. 17, 1999

• Baltimore City Paper

Dec. 8, 1999

• Baltimore City Paper

X-Content: Ten Years Ago in City Paper: Jan. 1, 2003

• Baltimore City Paper

Ten Years Ago in City Paper: May 17, 2000

• Baltimore City Paper

Should Baltimore have an NBA team?

• Baltimore City Paper

Ten Years Ago in City Paper: Dec. 20, 2000

• Politics

Mayor's IT director resigns amid investigation

The head of the Mayor's Office of Information Technology has resigned his position amid an investigation into allegations that the department paid contractual employees for work they may not have performed.

• Politics

Mayor's IT director resigns amid investigation

• Maryland

Tech Tips: The time to retire Windows XP is now

• Maryland

Tech Tips: The time to retire Windows XP is now

• Maryland

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Hill

• Opinion

Netflix's faux neutrality [Commentary]

• Sony Corp.

Best Buy to redesign home theater department with Sony, Samsung shops

Best Buy plans to overhaul its home theater section, carving out shops-within-a-shop for Sony and Samsung, the chain announced.

• Opinion

Democracy, not capitalism, is failing the middle class [Commentary]

French economist Thomas Piketty gets it wrong. It's a failure of democratic governments to act responsibly, not the shortcomings of capitalism that is failing America's workers and middle class.

• Opinion

Democracy, not capitalism, is failing the middle class [Commentary]

• Opinion

A merger of necessity [Commentary]

The proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner highlights the vast gap between the imagined world the broadband industry's critics and the real world in which these companies must compete. The companies that use the broadband Internet are making six to eight times the margins of the allegedly monopolistic companies who provide it — the exact opposite of what you'd see if the price gouging accusation was real.

• Opinion

A merger of necessity [Commentary]

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: WhatsApp deal shines light on our economic problems

• Howard County

Scam artists tirelessly devise new schemes

Scam artists tirelessly devise new schemes

• Opinion

Seattle will cope with its football dynasty [Commentary]

This is unsettling for Seattle. A football dynasty in a city of book readers and mountain climbers? Somebody may need to pass a joint around -- which is no problem. Up there, it's legal.

• Opinion

Inequality is the new norm in America [Commentary]

America still produces one fifth of the world's goods and services, but accounts for a much smaller share of global growth. Many U.S. products are no longer the best in class. Consequently, the economy can't adequately employ many of its college graduates, and wages are stagnant or falling for ordinary folks.

• Opinion

Inequality is the new norm in America [Commentary]

• Entertainment

PlayStation 4 and XBox One sold out at most Baltimore stores

Despite their hefty price tags, the PlayStation 4 and XBox One video game consoles just might be the most sought after gifts of the holiday season.