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North Face, which calls itself the “world’s leading outdoor brand,” last week launched a marketing campaign “aimed at making the sport of climbing more accessible and inclusive.” Nothing political there. Yet the company went ahead and made its rollout overtly ...

Tagged with: President Donald Trump

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. – A day after President Donald Trump’s second refusal to lead the nation away from hate, I came to a conclusion I think many of us share by now. The man in the White House – who seems ...

Today’s nursing homes are far different than those of the past. Due to a rapidly changing health care delivery system and longer life spans, Marylanders from all walks of life rely on these facilities. As a licensed practical nurse and ...

For a law that has been in existence since 1963, the federal Equal Pay Act continues to be hotly debated.  The question of whether setting compensation based on prior salary perpetuates sex-based pay discrimination and therefore violates the EPA was ...

Following two recent negative experiences, I thought I’d discuss an important consumer marketing topic.

It was inevitable that the fallout from violent protests in Virginia organized by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups would extend to the virtual world of the web. The internet is our modern commons. But the past few days have shown ...

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The only thing that is constant is change. But the PACE of change we are living through is completely unfathomable. After spending several days in San Francisco at the Singularity University Global Summit with the greatest minds of our time, ...

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For nearly a century-and-a-half, the larger-than-life bronze statue of Roger Brooke Taney, a Calvert County native who was the country’s chief justice longer than all but one who held the office, has sat on a pedestal in solemn dignity outside ...

The violence by neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other racists in Charlottesville, Virginia, outraged decent people across the United States. For the extremists’ ostensible cause – protecting Confederate monuments, such as the Robert E. Lee statue in that Virginia college town’s Emancipation ...

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Editor’s note: The following letter was sent Wednesday to Howard County Executive Allan H. Kittleman by former county circuit court judges Dennis M. Sweeney and Donna Hill Staton. It has been excerpted here with the authors’ permission. We read that ...