small businesses

Laurel Mayor Craig Moe recognized small businesses that have operated in the city for 20 years or longer during the Oct. 22 City Council meeting. This is the second time the mayor has recognized longtime Laurel businesses in a recognition program that Moe said will continue as other businesses meet the 20-year mark.

City and state legislators say they will push for greater regulation of longstanding but little-known laws that allow security guards to be granted law enforcement powers to arrest and search citizens.

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and County Councilwoman Courtney Watson toured Main Street Ellicott City businesses Friday in a show of support for the town after the CSX train derailment in August that killed two young women and shut Main Street down for a week.

Now that we know how badly mismanaged the schools are, can Baltimore repeal the bottle tax?

Female legislators in Maryland are determined not to lose recent gains in health care, employment, rights

Federal workers aren't the only ones filled with anxiety by looming budget cuts. Federal contractors — plentiful in Maryland — have a lot at stake, too. Q&A with federal-contracting consultant Mark Amtower.

A trade group predicts Maryland will lose 50,000 small-business jobs from the federal government's looming automatic budget cuts — fifth-largest in the country.

Finally, Ehrlich reveals a capacity for original thinking

They came as individual residents, business owners and representatives of small communities, all bearing similar stories of having experienced numerous, unexplainable power outages and finding no help from the area's utility provider, Baltimore Gas and Electric.

One is a fourth-term state senator. The other, a small business owner. Though their political experience varies greatly, the two Republicans share the same goal: Unseat the Democratic incumbents in their Congressional districts and make changes in the Capitol.

Symposium offers tools for starting a new business

While health spending spins out of control, NASA dwindles into insignificance

Both parties' conventions were disasters -- unless the rules of American politics have changed.

Van Hollen is contemptuous of opposing views

An Obama delegate from Howard County says president has shown leadership on economy, education and energy

As the Democrat who has worked most closely with vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, Rep. Chris Van Hollen has been drafted by the Obama campaign to talk about the budget committee chairman's controversial fiscal plans.

Sen. Ben Cardin, a Baltimore Democrat, started his day in Laurel Aug. 30 with lunch at the Laurel Municipal Center, joined by city officials and local business owners, then boarded a bus to Main Street, where they visited longtime businesses Rainbow Florist and Delectables and the Laurel Meat Market.

With the future of its top leadership uncertain, the directors of the Baltimore Development Corp., the city's influential, quasi-public economic development arm, met Thursday — the first time in 16 years that M.J. "Jay" Brodie was not in charge.

Maryland get $123 million in federal money to build health insurance exchange

Requiring some companies to offer health insurance will be bad for businesses

The Rotunda owners are right to turn the mall inside-out.

The retirement of long-time BDC head M.J. "Jay" Brodie offers Baltimore a chance to re-evaluate the purpose of its development agency.

President Obama burdens us with debt, but Mitt Romney offers to lift us up with hope.

Picking Paul Ryan as his running mate adds intellectual heft -- and a sense of real American values -- to the Romney ticket.

Tax professionals discuss strategies in a year when no one is sure where taxes are headed.

Robert L. Wallace, CEO of Baltimore-based Bithgroup Technologies, has spent more than two decades building a minority-owned business into a multimillion dollar success and writing and lecturing about entrepreneurship.

Government definitely does not help small business

In an effort to boost small construction firms that have been hit especially hard by the down economy, congressional lawmakers are taking another look at expanding a little-known bond guarantee program run by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

President Obama is wrong when he credits government for helping entrepreneurs

Obama missed Business 101

A senior White House adviser outlined President Barack Obama's initiatives to make college more affordable and provide assistance to small businesses during an African-American policy forum at Morgan State University on Friday.

"Using Franchising as an Effective Strategy to Small Business Ownership" will be held July 18 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship, 9250 Bendix Road, North, in Columbia

President Obama's tax plan is better than Mitt Romney's — but neither one is very inspiring.

We do little to support or thank our volunteer firefighters, who in many communities risk their lives on our behalf.

The Board of County Commissioners, which refused an airport expansion that was 95 percent funded by higher levels of government, is about to embark on a fund to loan small business startups money at a rate of $25,000 per each.

Who pays the 'employer penalty' under the health reform law?

Some state could still try to emulate Arizona, but there are signs that anti-immigration fervor may be waning

Maryland will continue to roll out benefits under health reform after Thursday's decision by the Supreme Court to uphold President Obama's landmark legislation

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of President Obama's healthcare law Thursday, ruling that the government may impose tax penalties on people who do not have health insurance.

Plan to reduce the number of liquor stores in Baltimore can't be realized too soon

Liquor stores don't cause crime; closing them will only deprive small business owners of their livelihoods

Most agree Supreme Court decision on health care reform law won't stop all benefits

New Web tool grades banks, large and small, on their lending to small businesses.

As law firms across the country cut back, Offit Kurman has grown. Rapidly.

Despite what President Obama says, small businesses aren't doing 'just fine'