ACCIDENT — Smoke drifts lazily above the town hall in this tiny Western Maryland municipality while inside, city leaders warmed by a squat, wood-burning stove ponder how to squeeze a few more bucks out of the $124,000 budget. Sometimes fueled ...

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WASHINGTON — Officially, the economic free-fall of the Great Recession ended about 18 months ago, but the picture in U.S. schools tells a very different story. States and school districts have seen their tax bases wither over the past two ...

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As he began to pack away decades of memorabilia Monday, Bill Beery III recalled the glory days of Burke’s Café & Restaurant. There was former Gov. Marvin Mandel and his entourage of lawyers eating there nearly each day during his ...

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Seventeen stories above Charles Street, David E. Johnson looked at the panorama of Baltimore’s center city and bemoaned the vacancy rate in commercial buildings that today has reached nearly 25 percent. Johnson, president of Stratford Realty Management Co. LLC, blamed ...

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As many car dealerships downsize and close in the Great Recession, a local Audi dealership is unveiling a $3 million renovation in Baltimore County. Audi Hunt Valley reopened its doors at 9800 York Rd. in Cockeysville. The 18,000 square-foot dealership ...

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As we enter the third holiday season after the onset of the “Great Recession,” American consumers may be battling penny-pinching fatigue. We’ve scrimped. We’ve saved. When do we get to reward ourselves? Sure, it would be fun to celebrate the ...

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