How about this: last weekend, I saw a feature story about up-and-coming grooms-to-be hiring a proposal planner to craft an elaborate marriage proposal. Those in the wedding business are psyched about this extension of the almost $50 billion-dollar industry. (Except ...

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Sometimes you’re looking in vain for a blog post to kick off the day, and sometimes one just falls into your lap. The latter was the case this morning, after this story came down the wire, about a veteran Baltimore ...

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Photographer Eric Stocklin visited 1st Mariner Arena this afternoon to get a glimpse of the crowds waiting to rally with presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Here’s what he found.

If you’re still getting used to the idea that your primary vote carries significant weight this time around, you’re not alone. I felt like I couldn’t escape the campaign ads all weekend. Though predictions have been swirling about the impending ...

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It was an eventful week, for sure – from the horrible news of the Browning family murders, to more developments in the foreclosure realm, to Super Tuesday results and their implications for the primaries in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Watch ...

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In another of a series of changes at Villa Julie College, Shelton Rhodes Ph.D. would be the new business school’s first-ever dean. The move comes as school officials are also brainstorming on what to re-name the 60-year old college, which ...

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For the past few days, my commute to work has been accompanied by the mother of all countdowns on 89.7 WTMD, Towson University’s radio station. The station is counting down the top 897 albums of all time according to over ...

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Some more news on the big-firm salary front: the largest of the truly Maryland-headquartered firms, Miles & Stockbridge, is up to $140,000. The increase, which is as of the new year, is a $15,000 bump from last year’s rate. That ...

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As political junkies recover from the Super Tuesday bonanza, they’ll have even more motivation to head to the polls for Maryland’s primary on Feb. 12: free tacos!! California Tortilla, which was founded in Bethesda and has its global headquarters in ...

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In hopes of forcing pigeons, more affectionately known as rats of the sky, to fly out of the city (and not caring where they land), the Downtown Partnership has put up signs in Cathy Hughes Plaza and Center Plaza that ...

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