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Banking consultant Anita G. Newcomb says new regulation such as that required by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law will make it difficult for smaller banks to survive without merger partners.

Marta Ines Quintana will see her recipes sold at Whole Foods markets later this month

Nerve-wracking economic conditions and more stringent mortgage requirements helped push home sales in the Baltimore region to their lowest level for the month of October in at least 13 years, putting more downward pressure on prices.

Q&A with Maryland's Office of People's Counsel, Paula M. Carmody.

Social Security announces 3.6 increase

Backed by Terps Coach Brenda Frese, Cummings looks into prescription drug shortages

As Constellation Energy Group prepares to sell itself to Chicago-based Exelon, critics are advancing proposals to make the deal more palatable to Maryland customers.

Netflix apologizes, but are new plans for company to turn it around

Disaster insurance: Under many state programs, high-risk residents are subsidized by everyone

We can feed the world's hungry — and local consumers — by improving the efficiency of harvesting, shipping and selling food.

Abingdon Wegmans prepared for September opening

BGE PeakRewards: Maryland politicians don't trust the market to price electricity what it actually costs

Medicaid cuts increase burden of uncompensated care which pushes up health insurance premiums for all.

Maryland's ratepayer advocate is objecting to Exelon Corp.'s proposed buyout of Constellation Energy Group, telling federal regulators that the combined company would have too much control of electricity prices on the grid that serves much of the Mid-Atlantic region.

Maryland lawmakers voted this year to raise the sales tax on alcohol by three cents on the dollar. But when the increase kicks in on Friday, bar owners say, drinkers could see prices going up by several times as much.

The poultry industry is the largest piece of a key sector of the local economy — agriculture — and its reach is broad: from the truckers who move product and the many farmers who grow corn for chicken feed to the corner stores and other businesses that rely on customers' income.

Maryland Public Policy Institute's Marc Kilmer says state will benefit from others' mistakes by taking a wait-and-see approach

Domestic drilling for oil is no solution for higher gasoline prices

President Obama wants us to believe that profiteering is the reason for high gas prices, but he fails to take steps that could greatly reduce our dependence on the world oil market.