If the pandemic caused you to relocate across state lines, even temporarily, the next surprise could be having to file an extra tax return and potentially pay more taxes. The issue gained national attention in May, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...
Read More »Editorial Advisory Board: Making Baltimore ‘The Monumental City’
Most people going about their daily lives in downtown Baltimore have no idea that the entertainment venue now known as Market Place or Power Plant Live Plaza was once a small corner of hell. There, in the 18th and 19th ...
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Read More »Kim and Adedeji-Fajobi: Who really pays to charge electric vehicles?
There has been a significant increase in electric vehicle ownership among homeowners and renters. In fact, between 2010 and 2019 cumulative sales of electric cars in the U.S. totaled nearly 1.4 million units. A 2018 Edison Electric Institute Report projected ...
Read More »The bar exam is not the problem
To be admitted to practice law in the state of Maryland, a graduate of an accredited law school must pass the bar examination. The examination is a grueling experience under normal conditions; the COVID-19 pandemic has made an already difficult ...
Read More »Don’t take our justice system for granted
Most of the women I know — black and white, northerner and southerner, Democrat and Republican — embraced the “Challenge Accepted” social media campaign. Many participants saw this as a simple statement of women-supporting-women (and an opportunity to post a flattering ...
Read More »Braverman’s departure caps tough year for Baltimore housing department
If you were to have accessed the website of Baltimore City’s Department of Housing and Community Development in late August you would have seen a number of notable images – the welcome page with the smiling face of the housing ...
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Read More »Feel you’ve lost financial control? Try these money moves
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely and his colleagues at Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight have a pact. Every week, the group of 50 people picks one small business in Durham, North Carolina, and each person spends $100 there. A one-time ...
Read More »PPP loan forgiveness? Don’t rush in
For the last several weeks, business owners have eagerly awaited the ability to seek forgiveness of their Paycheck Protection Program loan and close what, for many, has been a challenging chapter in the story of their business. Those who participated ...
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Read More »Editorial Advisory Board: The police union and police reform
The Baltimore police commissioner, Michael S. Harrison, said that if George Floyd had been killed by Baltimore police he would not have been able to fire them. Although Baltimore’s citizens have an “expectation that when bad police behavior is brought ...
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Read More »The mattress thing is really dumb
If you’re a homeowner who saw the next recession coming and went to an adjustable-rate mortgage as a hedge for interest rate risk — OK, no one could have guessed it’d start with a pandemic, but we were overdue — ...
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