Some Md. lawmakers push ‘bank local’ movement 

Posted: 6:34 pm Thu, March 25, 2010
By Nicholas Sohr
Daily Record Business Writer

ANNAPOLIS — There have long been “buy local” campaigns urging consumers to forgo Wal-Mart in favor of the local mom-and-pop when shopping for everything from books to broccoli, high heels to handbags. Now, add bank accounts to the list, an outgrowth of the movement to vilify big banks for first leading the country into recession, ...