The big ticket items -- increasing the gas tax to pay for transportation projects, repealing the death penalty and increasing gun control -- are already resolved heading into the General Assembly's last day.

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A Senate work group held a closed-door meeting Monday to pore over the details of legislation that would alter Maryland’s $84 million venture capital program.

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A General Assembly committee has confirmed Dominick E. Murray as secretary of the state Department of Business and Economic Development, a job Murray has held on an interim basis since January.

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Emergency legislation that would alter a state program that funnels money into early-stage companies is being assigned to a special work group.

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The state’s economic development agency is asking the General Assembly to act quickly on changes to its signature venture capital program in order to secure the services of private investment firms.

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Maryland officials have announced a $300,000 investment in two start-up companies through the state’s InvestMaryland initiative. The Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development said Thursday that Plasmonix will receive $100,000. Bambeco, which received $400,000 in InvestMaryland funds last month, ...

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SALISBURY — Maryland’s secretary for business and economic development rallied Lower Shore leaders behind a state venture capital initiative that seeks to invest millions of dollars into companies and entrepreneurs with innovative ideas. The state is poised to award a ...

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SALISBURY — Maryland’s secretary for business and economic development rallied Lower Shore leaders behind a state venture capital initiative that seeks to invest millions of dollars into companies and entrepreneurs with innovative ideas. The state is poised to award a ...

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A Maryland agency has chosen a group to oversee the auction of tax credits to raise up to $70 million to help start-up companies in the state. The Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development said Thursday that the Grant ...

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The themes that emerged in 2011 were largely standard fare in Annapolis and the Maryland business community — malfeasance by those who serve in government, big initiatives to support biotech and high-tech companies, high hopes for gambling to ease the ...

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