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The average rush-hour commuter will pay about $3.50 in daily round-trip tolls to use the new express lanes being built along Interstate 95 north of Baltimore, according to a rate structure approved by the Maryland Transportation Authority's board on Thursday.

This weekend, riders of Uber in Baltimore experienced some sticker shock as they tried to hail a private car with their smartphone.

A citizens' commission created to review the compensation levels of the county executive and council is close to making its final recommendations.

When Orioles season-ticket holders receive their renewal packages in the mail over the next few days, they will find slightly higher average ticket prices and an expanded version of the variable-pricing plan that the club has used for single-game ticket sales over the past seven years.

Virginia-based Dominion Resources wants to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the Chesapeake Bay via a facility at Cove Point in southern Maryland. This project would not only damage our state's environment, it is also part of an unwise potential national shift toward exporting natural gas, which threatens the economy and jeopardizes our country's goal of reducing harmful greenhouse gas pollution.

Baltimore-area home prices and the number of sales continued to rise in October, prompting a rush of would-be sellers to put their houses on the market, according to numbers released this morning.

The Oct. 31 article, "Columbia, Glenwood farmers markets could close," failed to account for the 300-pound gorilla in the room — namely, price gouging by some greedy vendors hoping to cash in on the popularity of buying local.

A court has ordered Baltimore County to reduce the health insurance premiums it charges hundreds of retired police officers.

Boys' Latin junior defenseman Dylan Gaines has committed orally to play lacrosse at Denver.

Men's apparel retailer Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. said Thursday it would consider boosting its $2.3 billion offer to buy rival Men's Wearhouse.

A study in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization says that overpricing a home nets sellers a small amount of additional money than if they'd asked what the property was worth.

When Osiris Therapeutics disclosed an agreement last week resolving concerns from federal regulators, the Columbia biotech firm pitched it as a win. Some news stories — and at least one Wall Street analyst team — described the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreement entirely differently.

A four-decade-old economics paper on market uncertainty undergirds the Obamacare exchanges.

To call Smaltimore, the Canton bar that replaced Lager's Pub in July, "busy" on a recent Sunday afternoon would be a severe understatement.

A proposed pricing structure for electronic toll lanes set to open next year along Interstate 95 northeast of Baltimore was approved Thursday by the Maryland Transportation Authority Board.

RealEstate Business Intelligence: Sales of homes in metro Baltimore jumped nearly 17 percent in August from a year earlier, with high demand pushing up the month's sales prices to the highest levels since 2008.

The Baltimore school system is raising the cost of student lunches to $3 — one of the highest among the nation's large, urban districts under a plan that also provides free meals to every low-income student.

I would love to support local farmers and I prefer to eat organic, yet I simply cannot justify paying $12 for a 3-pound chicken, $6 for a small loaf of bread or $5 for four tiny beets. Everything at the market is vastly overpriced.

Columbia chemical maker W.R. Grace & Co. said Thursday that it took a hit to sales in the second quarter as a price increase prompted customers to jump ship.

Columbia-based cybersecurity firm Sourcefire is being acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

The Anne Arundel County government is getting more than $300,000 as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit over prescription drug pricing.

Corporate governance experts say celebrity directors can be highly beneficial, raising a company's profile and even its stock price. But that doesn't mean all boards should have a celebrity.

Prices have improved modestly in the past six months, according to multiple list data

Runners once boasted that theirs was one of the cheapest sports. All you needed was a pair of sneakers and the road. No expensive gyms or equipment.

Attorney General Douglas Gansler called on state legislators Tuesday to cap insurance rate increases to 5 percent until health reform is instituted.

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A"green" natural gas plan gives Marylanders the option of paying a little more to shrink their carbon footprint while heating their homes.

A group of alleged Black Guerrilla Family members met to discuss a robbery with a confidential source, who unbeknownst to them was working with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The price of cocaine in Baltimore City at the moment was "high" at $40,000 per kilogram, agents wrote in court documents, making the proposed robbery "especially lucrative."

BGE says energy prices will rise $6 a month for the typical residential electricity customer who doesn't use an outside power supplier, the first jump in energy prices in four years.

Chemical maker W.R. Grace said Wednesday that its net income in the first quarter fell 13 percent from the year-earlier period, in line with its warning to investors and analysts earlier in the month.

With the additional 25-plus taxes Marylanders have been subjected to by this administration, the gas tax with the automatic tax accelerator one will hurt the most. The automatic tax accelerator will eliminate any action from the legislature which will absolve its responsibility in the future

The Obama administration is expected to propose new rules today that would slash the amount of sulfur in gasoline, one of the most significant steps the administration can take this term toward cutting air pollution, people with knowledge of the announcement said.

Mayo A. Shattuck III, who helped sell two Baltimore institutions to out-of-state concerns and ran the region's energy firm for a volatile decade, has retired from the parent company of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.

Raising gas taxes will harm Maryland's economy and unfairly burden motorists

Gas tax proposal is a compromise that lawmakers ought to support

The debate over the sequestration cuts obscures the real drivers of our slow growth and ballooning public debt.

Maryland lawmakers face a fork in the road — allow MAIF policyholders to be ripped off or ease the cost of their car insurance

Joseph A. Sullivan, who has served as interim leader of Legg Mason Inc. for more than four months, has been named CEO and president of the Baltimore-based money manager, the company announced this morning.

Climate change is real but solutions are really difficult

Legg Mason Inc. reported Friday that it lost $453.9 million in the third quarter due to a previously announced noncash charge of $734 million related to the re-evaluation of certain assets.

Home insurance premiums throughout Maryland have been increasing. Here's why.

Replacing our inaccurate measure of inflation would produce budget savings and more tax revenue.

Spicemaker McCormick & Co.'s stock price swooned by more than $4 a share Thursday after the company's earnings forecast for the year fell short of what Wall Street analysts anticipated.

Baltimore-area households have 10 different "green power" plans to choose from, selling electricity generated by wind turbines. Many offer rates lower than the standard fossil-nuclear mix provided by BGE.

Years later, the big winners in Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 case are the investment firms that profit from the boom-and-bust cycles of Wall Street.

In summer 2007, a complicated deal to buy Tribune Co. and take it private reflected all the dangers of an easy-money era when caution was pushed aside.