Secure Choice as an easy way for Maryland's small businesses and their employees to save for retirement using a simple payroll deduction.
Read More »Bill Bronrott: Lifting the veil of secrecy
It is time to finally lift the veil of secrecy manufacturers impose on safety and warranty policy statements.
Read More »Barry F. Rosen and John R. Paliga: Ten persistent questions on Obamacare
Are our employees eligible for health care coverage under the so-called “Obamacare” Health Care Exchanges, such as MarylandHealthConnection.gov or the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov?
Read More »Sunshine Week: Promoting open government and public access to information
This week marks the beginning of spring, and also when news media outlets and government watchdogs celebrate Sunshine Week, which promotes open government and public access to information.
Read More »Clark Kendall: Freedom of choice for retirement
Do the sponsors of Maryland H.B. 421 and S.B. 312, which would create the so-called Maryland Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program and Trust, think 1 million Marylanders are either too lazy or too financially irresponsible, or both, to pick up the phone and open a simple IRA retirement account at a bank?
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Read More »Letter to the Editor: Let’s support more antibiotic-free meat in the market
Today, 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States are used in industrial farms that provide the vast majority of the meat and poultry we eat.
Read More »Confusing tax law changes may lead to missed deductions
As business owners prepare their files and paperwork for tax season, one particular tax law change may lead to substantial missed opportunities for taxpayers in Maryland. Imagine you’re the landlord of a commercial office building, which you’ve owned for 10 ...
Read More »Ramesh Ponnuru: Court’s Obamacare dilemma
Opinions about the big Obamacare case the Supreme Court heard this week are highly polarized. But the court could find a way to split the difference between the conservative and liberal readings of the law -- and that might be the worst of all worlds.
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Read More »Roger Blunt, Bruce Chatman: More clean energy jobs for veterans
Some of the sharpest minds in American business are making major, long-term investments in clean energy.
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Read More »Joseph A. Schwartz, III: Behind the workers’ compensation announcement
The Maryland General Assembly’s Workers’ Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight Committee announced on Feb. 3 that there would not be legislation for the next two years (2015, 2016 legislative sessions) relating to physician dispensing of medicines to workers’ compensation patients.
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