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<title>Welcome to the world of &lsquo;cybersecurity&rsquo;
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<description><![CDATA[Six years ago, millions of computer systems and networks around the country and world were attacked by a record number of viruses and worms that leaked sensitive personal and financial information.
But the premise that geeky computer nerds are hacking personal and corporate computers for their own p...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>County author has financial tips for students, everyone
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<description><![CDATA[Carlos Sera was 46 and feeling his own mortality when he decided to write down all that he&#39;d learned in his career as an investment adviser.
His godfather died at 47, and as Sera reflected on the man&#39;s death he knew he wanted to leave a legacy for his children. &quot;The best legacy I&#39;ve...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hamilton Federal opens in Pasadena on March 27
PASADENA - Hamilton Federal Bank will celebrate it&#39;s arrival in Pasadena on March 27 with community day festivities.The Baltimore County-based bank, which bought the K Bank branch at 8108 Jumpers Hole Road late last year, put its name on the buildin...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>This Bud is not for you, baby
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<description><![CDATA[The novelty baby bottles were supposed to be gag gifts, according to the Glen Burnie business&#39; now-defunct Web site.
For $19.99, someone could buy two plastic, 16-ounce baby bottles with working nipples that resembled bottles of Budweiser and Miller Lite.&quot;You guys know this is for fun, righ...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Magna gets more time, money in bankruptcy
WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware bankruptcy judge recently granted horse-track owner Magna Entertainment Corp. permission to obtain additional financing and more time to complete a Chapter 11 reorganization plan.Judge Mary Walrath approved Magna&#39;s request f...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Alcohol tax pits supporters against liquor industry
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<description><![CDATA[Supporters of a dime-a-drink tax told a Senate committee this week they need the fee in order to provide essential funds for mental health, disabilities and substance-abuse programs to Marylanders.
But opponents claimed the alcohol tax would deprive retailers of their livelihood in the midst of an e...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>AACC students to pay more
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<description><![CDATA[Starting next fall, the average Anne Arundel Community College student will pay $24 more per semester under an operating budget approved Tuesday night by the college Board of Trustees.
Because of the increase, students will pay $3 more per credit hour in additional fees.Students aren&#39;t the only...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Soft Skills at Work: A genuine smile can go a long way
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<description><![CDATA[Every two weeks, I go to Costco at Arundel Mills. It is one of my favorite stores and I always hope that Charlose Parker will be there greeting customers.
I met Charlose eight years ago when the store first opened. As I approached him, he was laughing with other Costco members, and I remember thinki...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bill would continue developer discounts
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<description><![CDATA[Developers would continue to get big discounts on fees that pay for roads and schools under a plan backed by a majority of County Council members.
A bill introduced last week would freeze impact fees at a discounted rate that recaptures less than 22 percent of the cost of building infrastructure dem...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Students get glimpse of their futures
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<description><![CDATA[Representatives from about 20 companies and organizations Saturday met with county middle and high school students to talk about college applications, internships, financial aid, personal finances and technical jobs.
The third annual Career Expo, held at Michael&#39;s Eighth Avenue in Glen Burniem a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Senators want local control of LNG terminals
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. - Both of Maryland&#39;s senators, along with others from Connecticut, Washington and Oregon, are fighting to revoke federal authority over locating controversial liquefied natural gas terminals and returning that power to local control.
The senators, including Maryland Democrats Be...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Hospital supports concept of free medical center
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<description><![CDATA[A key participant in any movement toward creating a free health clinic in Glen Burnie yesterday praised the proposal and expressed interest in discussing it further.
Mary Lanham, a spokeswoman for Baltimore Washington Medical Center, said a clinic is in line with the hospital&#39;s purpose.&quot;We...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Business Digest
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<description><![CDATA[Pasadena couple sues Toyota over crash
LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena couple has filed suit in California against Toyota, alleging their 2005 Echo accelerated, causing a crash that left the husband partially paralyzed on his right side.Attorney Robert Nelson said the suit by Andrew and Tetyana Flury of Pa...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A stitch in time
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<description><![CDATA[Dashew Supply Co., an embroidery threads and tools purveyor, with its five-person staff and four-room warehouse off of Generals Highway, is a living relic of the once-booming garment industry in Baltimore.
The family-owned company, in its fourth generation, has outlived most of its contemporary comp...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>BRAC may stretch child care needs
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<description><![CDATA[For Mark and Jaime Mench, this was the perfect time to expand their day care business into west county.
By the end of the spring, the Severna Park couple hopes to have a second Kiddie Korner Daycare up and running on Higgins Drive in Odenton to absorb the wave of new families headed to work in and a...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MTA gets $16M for MARC, local buses
LAUREL - The Maryland Transit Administration plans to use $16 million in federal grants to improve commuter rail and bus service in Howard and Anne Arundel counties.U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin announced last week that the MTA will use $6.8 million f...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Lawmakers wants to raise awareness of electric choice
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<description><![CDATA[Too many Maryland residents just don&#39;t know they can shop around for cheaper electricity suppliers, and state regulators should do more to advertise options, lawmakers say.
Del. Dereck Davis, D-Prince George&#39;s, and state Sen. Catherine Pugh, D-Baltimore, are backing legislation that would re...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Odenton Town Center clearing roadblocks
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<description><![CDATA[County officials said they have reached several critical agreements on building new roads and upgrading sewer and water service that should clear the way for construction on a half-dozen projects in the long-awaited Odenton Town Center development.
Once the agreements are finalized, construction on...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Fresh take on a Pasadena favorite
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<description><![CDATA[Linda Pearson believes she has a recipe for success:
Buy a well-known Pasadena restaurant. Invest in something where price and quality will provide an edge. Keep the successful things. Rely on experience and, most importantly, family.Little things like a stubborn recession? She isn&#39;t worried.On...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Business Digest
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<description><![CDATA[Bank of Glen Burnie posts &#39;09 profit despite 4th quarter loss
GLEN BURNIE - Glen Burnie Bancorp, parent company of The Bank of Glen Burnie, lost $210,000 in the final three months of last year although that didn&#39;t stop the bank from posting an annual profit.The company said it lost 8 cents p...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Competitors combine to revive energy park proposal
LINTHICUM - A Linthicum firm competing for rights to build an ambitious power plant just outside Annapolis has formed a new alliance with its competitor in hopes of putting the derailed plans back on track.Aerotropolis Renewable Energy Group united...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Blizzards cost state lottery millions
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<description><![CDATA[Lottery officials and local retailers are hoping to bounce back from the losses suffered during this month&#39;s back-to-back blizzards, which cost the statewide lottery millions of dollars in lost revenue.
While people were stranded inside, unable to drive and in some cases walk, the lottery experi...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Record &amp; Tape Traders closes Glen Burnie shop
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<description><![CDATA[As Greg McCurtin boxed merchandise and made phone calls Monday inside the Record &amp; Tape Traders, a bouquet of iPods, pink, black and silver sat on a shelf above his head.
They were a symbol of what ultimately doomed his shop in Glen Burnie.&quot;I don&#39;t think we ever sold one,&quot; said McC...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>State hunts for road money
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<description><![CDATA[State transportation officials see budget shuffling that targeted congestion at the National Naval Medical Center as the type of creative financing they need to pay for similar work around Fort George G. Meade.
Beverley K. Swaim-Staley, acting state secretary of transportation, told more than 200 bu...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[$400,000 in grants will fund self-help programs
ANNAPOLIS - Five county nonprofit groups have received $100,000 grants to fund programs designed to create opportunities for county residents to achieve long term economic success.The Community Foundations of Anne Arundel County awarded the grants to g...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Blizzards may make energy bills accumulate
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<description><![CDATA[With area homes encased in banks of snow and ice, struggling Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers are worried about how much they&#39;ll owe on their next heating bills.
BGE provides power to 88,600 natural gas and 221,500 electricity customers in Anne Arundel County.But Erica Matthews, director...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Helping minority businesses grow
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<description><![CDATA[Joanne Jackson has long been an advocate for minority businesses in Anne Arundel County.
During her 22 years as the county&#39;s minority and small-business enterprise coordinator, she has guided entrepreneurial ventures and helped connect firms with government and customers.Heading up an office tha...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AACC to judge business plans
Arnold - Anne Arundel Community College is once again holding its annual business plan competition in an effort to showcase students&#39; plans for new business ventures.The school&#39;s Entrepreneurial Studies Institute will organize the seventh annual competition this...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Blizzards are not good for business
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<description><![CDATA[Experts disagree on whether last weekend&#39;s snowstorm was terrible for business or merely bad.
Food stores and chain drugstores saw business increase as customers prepared for the storm, but many small businesses could be pushed over the brink by the costs associated with the storm as well as los...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Little pain at the pump - for now
GLEN BURNIE - Sick of the snow? Well, there&#39;s at least a little bit of good news - gas prices are dropping.Gas prices are continuing to decline nationally and locally as Maryland motorists dig themselves out of the record-setting blizzard and prepare for another...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>It&#39;s a good dog&#39;s life
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<description><![CDATA[Dogs around the world are resting comfortably right now because Mike Harding got laid off from his Wall Street firm in 1987.
That personal setback propelled Harding to open his own business, a company that evolved into Kuranda Dog Beds in Glen Burnie. The maker of a chew resistant cot for dogs, its...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Soft Skills at Work: Small communications errors can turn away customers
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<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, I listened to a webinar and was immediately distracted by the presenter&#39;s speaking style.
In every statement she made, the inflection in her voice was higher at the end of the sentence, making it sound like she was asking a question.This may seem like a minor characteristic n...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Store shelves finally getting restocked
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<description><![CDATA[Some supermarkets are still running low on milk, eggs and bread. And just about every store across the county is out of snow shovels and salt.
But several area businesses say there is nothing to worry about: The delivery trucks are on the way.&quot;The staple items always tend to go pretty quickly,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Students to learn financial literacy
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<description><![CDATA[When she leaves Arundel High School for college next year, Chrisha Okocha will have a financial advantage over her peers.
As one of just a handful of students who took the county&#39;s financial planning course, she can balance a checkbook and calculate interest, and knows to be wary of credit card...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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Over the past decade, the percentage of construction dollars awarded to minority and small businesses ha...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Northrop unit&#39;s sales up in &#39;09
LINTHICUM - Northrop Grumman&#39;s Linthicum-based unit saw sales rise almost 9 percent last year, driven by deliveries of several existing contracts.Delivers of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) systems, higher volume for the Space Based Infrar...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Last May, Stacy Grevin was two months behind on the mortgage for her Annapolis condominium and in danger of slipping into foreclosure.
In the hopes of saving her home, the professional hairstylist did the right thing, according to housing counselors. She called her mortgage company, said she had a j...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot said it was one of those emotional breakdowns that took him completely by surprise.
He was shopping last year at a garden supply store in Montgomery County when he asked a sales clerk how her day was going. To his shock, she burst into tears.&quot;She said, I have...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s a new year, and a chance for the thousands of local residents affected by the recession to take a look at their debt and reform their spending and saving habits.
Deanna Booker, a quality improvement manager at Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Maryland and Delaware Inc. - or simply CCCS...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As the General Assembly searches for methods to spur job creation, Gov. Martin O&#39;Malley and legislators are looking to tax credits as one way to get the economy going.
The proposals range in size and chances of passage but coalesce around the principle of giving some money back now to get future...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Investors buy Village at Waugh Chapel center
GAMBRILLS - The sprawling Village at Waugh Chapel shopping center on Route 3 changed hands this week in one of the region&#39;s largest commercial property deals during the recession.A group of investors from Chevy Chase purchased the open-air complex Tue...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since being laid off in April, Glenn Spitzer discovered an opportunity to certifications as a land engineer in training and for green-building LEED standards.
Both were free.The Glen Burnie man didn&#39;t get a scholarship, a sponsor or a grant. He merely went to the West County Area Library in Oden...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mortgage broker charged in fraud
BALTIMORE - An Anne Arundel County mortgage broker who moonlighted for the past several years as a financial adviser misappropriated more than $2.3 million of his clients&#39; money to buy and sell stocks for his own personal gain, according to the U.S. Attorney&#39;...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Marylanders will be able to play Powerball beginning tomorrow, joining millions of others in 31 states and Washington, D.C., in having the opportunity to plunk down a dollar or more for a slim chance to win a fortune.
But some think adding another lottery game will just cause those who can least aff...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maryland&#39;s construction industry is one of the hardest hit in the nation, and the picture nationally is not likely to get much better, according to a forecast released last week.
The Associated General Contractors of America released its construction employment forecast for 2010, predicting priv...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It has always been the goal of our Chamber of Commerce to establish a permanent home in northern Anne Arundel County. Since 1947, our officers and directors have worked diligently to serve the needs of local businesses and organizations, while building a strong financial framework for the chamber.
T...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[GM decision to make electric motors in Maryland means jobs
WHITE MARSH - General Motors Corp. will be the first major automaker to produce electric motors on United States soil after investing $246 million in the Baltimore Transmission plant, an investment that would immediately generate about 200 n...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Foreclosures continue to rise across state
ANNAPOLIS - Maryland&#39;s property foreclosure rate continues to climb, jumping 13.4 percent in the final quarter of 2009 over the preceding three months.There were 16,788 foreclosure filings - which include notices of default, foreclosure sales and lender...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As the General Assembly launches straight into a fight over ways to keep the state&#39;s unemployment- insurance fund solvent, Brian Gill, who employs 20 people on his company&#39;s payroll, has much of his livelihood riding on the decision.
Gill&#39;s small business, Gill Grilling Co., provides kit...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Party ideology is likely to play as large a role as the specifics of legislation this General Assembly session, as Democrats and Republicans duel over which ideas can spur job creation and economic recovery.
Beyond the dueling think-tank and magazine rankings each side trots out, the fundamental div...]]></description>
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