Md. organic firms not worried about California initiative

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: September 24, 2012
Tags: baltimore convention center, Botanical Skin Works, california, convention, farmers, farms, maryland, Natural Products Expo East, organic, Salazon Chocolate Co., Small business

Owners of small organic businesses in Maryland aren’t fretting about a California ballot initiative that would require the labeling of genetically engineered ingredients in products like food and clothing because, they say, their products don’t have any ingredients to hide. Maryland shoppers are “passionate about what they are putting into their bodies,” said Erica Stone, [...]

Organic products expo to draw 20,000 to Baltimore

BY: Alissa Gulin
POSTED: September 16, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore convention center, convention, maryland, Natural Products Expo East, organic products expo, owings mills, Pure Glass Bottle, Vanns Spices Ltd., Very Peri Sauces

Meg Whitlock (right), who runs Woodlawn-based Vanns Spices Ltd. with her husband, Mick, and another family, said the Natural Products Expo East was more expensive than other shows they’ve been to, but proved more profitable in the long run.

Thousands of vendors will crowd the Baltimore Convention Center later this week to showcase their wares. Nearly all products are welcome: household cleaners, personal care items, food and beverages, pet toys.

For Md. delegate, GOP convention is all business

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: August 29, 2012
Tags: Business, convention, maryland, national, republican, rnc, tampa

Brian Harlin, owner of the Glen Burnie-based GOP Shoppe, assists a Republican National Convention delegate at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa.

TAMPA, Fla. — As Maryland’s delegates to the Republican National Convention schmoozed with fellow convention goers at Sunday night’s welcoming party here, Brian Harlin was nowhere to be seen. He didn’t board the bus Monday morning for lunch in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood. He isn’t even staying at the same hotel as his fellow delegates. [...]

Nuclear expert upsets Md. delegation at GOP National Convention

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: August 27, 2012
Tags: calvert cliffs, convention, donald r. hoffman, election, excel services corp., GOP, house of delegates, maryland, national, nuclear energy, republican, rockville, Talbot County Republican Party Chairman Kate Boland

Delegates watch a video presentation during an abbreviated session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Monday.

TAMPA, Fla. — A nuclear energy expert from Maryland found himself under fire from some in the state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention Monday after he criticized natural gas fracking and its viability as a primary energy source. Donald R. Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of Excel Services Corp. in Rockville, criticized the [...]

Donna Hill Staton: Food stamps: Fighting words

BY: Donna Hill Staton
POSTED: January 29, 2012
Tags: candidate, convention, donna hill staton, food stamp president, naacp, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute, welfare, welfare programs

Presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich recently inflamed sensibilities by singling out Black Americans in separate attacks on welfare programs. At a campaign stop in Iowa, Santorum stated, “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them an opportunity to go out and [...]

Old-time radio convention meets for last time

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 23, 2011
Tags: convention, Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention, jack benny, new jersey, old-time, orson welles, radio

Writer and director Edgar Farr Russell III, left, directs Russell Horton, standing center, as Jughead Jones, and others during rehearsal of his "Radio Goes To War," episode, "Any Bonds Today" at the Friends of Old-Time Radio convention in Newark, N.J., Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. To devotees of old-time radio, Fibber McGee is still opening that closet and Fred Allen and Jack Benny are still enjoying their feud. But time has run out on this convention. This weekend's gathering of the Friends of Old-time Radio is the 36th and last, says the organizer.

NEWARK, N.J. — For one weekend a year, the ghosts and survivors of Jack Benny, Benny Goodman, Goodman Ace and hundreds of other legends of the old days of radio hold court at a hotel across the road from Newark Airport. The annual Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention has been meeting for 36 years. But [...]

Black judges, lawyers gather in Baltimore for National Bar Association’s annual meeting

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: July 31, 2011
Tags: african american, Baltimore, Baltimore City Circuit Court Administrative Judge Marcella A. Holland, black, Brennan Center for Justice, convention, diversity, Improving Judicial Diversity, Judges, lawyers, Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell, meeting, National Bar Association

The nation’s largest association of black judges and attorneys is meeting in Baltimore this week to discuss issues facing the legal community and to honor Maryland’s top jurist and other luminaries of the state’s bench and bar. The National Bar Association will induct Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell into its hall [...]

NAACP chief focuses on voting laws at convention

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: July 25, 2011
Tags: Benjamin Todd Jealous, convention, naacp, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP President and Chief Executive Officer Benjamin Jealous

LOS ANGELES — The NAACP plans to spend the next year fighting against a slew of voting laws that it says disenfranchise huge swaths of minority voters, the civil rights organization’s president said at the group’s convention on Monday. Benjamin Todd Jealous said legislation promoted by what he called racist elements in the tea party [...]

Week in review: 6/24/11

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 23, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, Business, claim, convention, Economy, expedia, jobs, lawsuit, losses, McDaniel College, Ravens, Slots, tuition, UM, Week in Review, william donald schaefer

Baltimore praised as convention site The Americas Meeting and Events Exhibition drew more than 3,000 meeting and convention planners to the Baltimore Convention Center this week in what city officials called an opportunity to show the world “the new Baltimore” — a great place for organizations’ meetings. Slots lawsuit settled The Baltimore Development Corp., the Baltimore [...]

Event planners: Baltimore starting to change perceptions

BY: Chelsea Feinstein
POSTED: June 21, 2011
Tags: Americas Meeting and Events Exhibition, Baltimore, barbara mcrae, convention, convention center, maryland, mayors

More than 3,000 meeting and convention planners from around the world flocked to Baltimore Tuesday for the Americas Meeting and Events Exhibition at the Baltimore Convention Center, providing a platform for the city to boost its reputation worldwide as a destination for business and leisure tourism. Based on initial reactions from convention-goers Tuesday, Baltimore is [...]