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At Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, talking about health care pretty much meant talking about Medicare-for-all — again. The controversial idea of abolishing private insurance in favor of a single, government-run program certainly deserves some rigorous back-and-forth. But not at the ...

For 24 years, I represented northwest Baltimore Country in the Maryland House of Delegates, where I was proud to fight for better health care for Maryland patients. Having now returned to the world of medicine and resuming my role as ...

The alarmist news on economic indicators seems like a constant drumbeat these days: History says economic expansions aren’t supposed to last this long, bond yields are inverted, major economies in Europe and Japan are supposedly stuck in a no-growth pattern, ...

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Maybe the decision by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals in Delvonta Morten v. State of Maryland filed on Sept. 4 will do what nothing else has done: persuade the Maryland judiciary to adopt a formal system for evaluating judicial performance. At ...

We are on the precipice of a Great Wealth Transfer. After years of hard work, baby boomers are poised to pass along an astounding $68 trillion of it to Gen X, Y and Z heirs over the next 25 years. ...

Two things happened the first week of September affecting thousands of state of Maryland retirement-eligible employees, tens of thousands more state retirees, and potentially the loss or preservation of prescription drug and other OPEB benefits of public employees around the ...

For half a century Title X has been the sole federal grant program dedicated to advancing access to comprehensive family planning services in the United States. Until last month the program provided high-quality, affordable, and preventive health care for low-income, young, ...

This has been a remarkable week of head-spinning incoherence from this White House. And for this White House, that is saying something. Yet despite that, it appears that nothing disastrous happened at the Group of Seven meeting in France. If ...

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For Maryland Democrats, boldly taxing beyond where they have been before for public education is a mark of character. Forget whether taxpayers can afford their $4 billion extra per year dream as laid out by the Kirwan Commission. The only ...

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In previous columns about the M&A marketplace for family businesses, I have focused on the sell side. In this piece, let’s concentrate on the buy side: Here is what companies need to know, consider, and attend to when shopping for ...

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