WASHINGTON — Americans spent more money on cars, furniture and at hardware stores to boost retail sales to a third monthly increase in September. The string of gains since July followed declines in May and June. Those had raised worries ...

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Parking lot owners are protesting a proposal to increase Baltimore’s parking tax for the second time in 17 months, saying the total increase of 67 percent is too much to bear. Posters and fliers with red stop sign-shaped images hang ...

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