Gov. Martin O’Malley said repeatedly on the campaign trail in the fall that his top priority was jobs — creating them, retaining them, saving them and enabling businesses in Maryland to feel confident enough to add them to their payrolls. ...

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Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Garagiola plans on introducing a major tax package to pump $400 million to $600 million a year into the dwindling transportation trust fund, along with a constitutional amendment to put the fund into a “lockbox” ...

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Fourteen businesses and a nonprofit organization in the Baltimore area were honored Tuesday at the 2010 Mayor’s Business Recognition Awards ceremony. The annual awards program, an initiative of the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Baltimore Development Corp., recognizes companies and ...

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To spur job creation and economic development, Maryland must streamline regulatory policies, lower taxes and develop stronger partnerships between government and businesses, said a new report released by the Greater Baltimore Committee Monday. The current strategy for job creation and ...

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In my experience, good ideas rarely just happen. Instead, they are often the product of a confluence of compelling needs, opportunities and circumstances that put people in positions to take advantage of an opportunity in effective and, in some cases, ...

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