ANNAPOLIS — About 40 trucks have rolled by the Maryland State House to protest a proposed gas tax increase. The Maryland Motor Truck Association and the Mid-Atlantic Petroleum Distributors Association held a rally in Annapolis on Tuesday. Mel Fair, of ...

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DALLAS — Major U.S. airlines are raising the price of some tickets favored by business travelers again, this time by up to $120 per round trip. Fare experts said Delta started the latest increase on Monday, which was matched immediately ...

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WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution would see a $100 million increase in President Barack Obama’s budget plan to build a new museum on the National Mall, while making small cuts elsewhere at the museum complex. The 2012 fiscal year request ...

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Downtown Baltimore gained 6,000 jobs last year as the economy steadied — the first job gain in three years, according to statistics released Tuesday by the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. The findings are part of the organization’s annual State of ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A proposal backed by nearly one-third of the Maryland Senate would add 10 cents to the state’s gas tax and raise the vehicle registration fee by half to pump $450 million annually into transportation projects. The bill, sponsored ...

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The rising cost of flying comes with a familiar refrain: The airlines need help paying their fuel bills. For the first time since late 2008, U.S. airlines are adding fuel surcharges to ticket prices. They’ve already raised fares five times ...

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Business travel is bouncing back. It is expected that U.S. companies will spend 5 percent more on travel in 2011 than they did last year — a sign of confidence in the economy that is giving a boost to airlines, ...

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DALLAS — Southwest Airlines Co. said Monday that traffic in January rose 13.2 percent from a year ago, and an important revenue measurement rose as passengers paid higher average fares. Southwest estimated that passenger revenue per available seat mile increased ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Drivers will pay more to use some of Maryland’s roads, tunnels and bridges starting in the second half of this year, state transportation officials said. “We will very, very likely have a toll increase this year,” Harold M. ...

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DETROIT — Americans gave automakers a confidence boost in January. They bought more cars and trucks and showed a still-fragile auto industry that they were ready to replace their clunkers in 2011. Sales of cars and light trucks in the ...

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