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Potential COVID-19 treatment will be manufactured in Baltimore

January 25, 2021 Leave a comment

Already part of several collaborations for COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Gaithersburg-based Emergent BioSolutions announced Monday that it will manufacture a potential treatment for the coronavirus called lenzilumab. The drug, which is being developed by California-based Humanigen, Inc., is currently being tested ...

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Virtual fundraiser aims to raise $25,000 for Baltimore restaurants

January 20, 2021 Leave a comment

Orioles great Cal Ripken Jr. signs a football to be auctioned off to benefit the struggling Baltimore restaurant industry. (Submitted Photo)

It was Baltimore’s December shutdown of indoor and outdoor dining that inspired Kris Ruhling to raise funds to support the city’s restaurants. But it was partnerships with the likes of the Baltimore Ravens, 98ROCK and Jimmy’s Famous Seafood that shaped Ruhling’s ...

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Under pandemic pressure, this Chestertown small business designed a new future

January 8, 2021 1 Comment

Some of the merchandise on sale at Walnut & Wool in Chestertown. Owner Samantha Owner added a home design service to keep her business going. (Submitted Photo)

Before the pandemic, Samantha Arrow regularly refinished and staged custom furniture at her Chestertown gift shop, vintage clothing and furniture store known as Walnut & Wool. But when a customer asked her to come out to her house and offer ...

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How latest round of PPP funding for businesses will work

January 8, 2021 Comments Off on How latest round of PPP funding for businesses will work

Victor Flores, 66, a third-generation owner of a gift shop, sweeps the steps of his store on Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Millions of business owners are about to get additional help as they weather the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

Millions of business owners in Maryland and across the nation are about to get some fresh help. The Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department are preparing to revive the Payment Protection Program five months after its first two rounds ...

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Prince George’s County to distribute relief money to restaurants

January 7, 2021 Comments Off on Prince George’s County to distribute relief money to restaurants

Since the start of the pandemic, Maryland’s restaurant and foodservice industry has lost approximately $1.4 billion in sales and has seen as many as 150,000 restaurant employees laid off or furloughed. The Restaurant Association of Maryland still projects that approximately 40 percent of all of Maryland restaurants (roughly 4,000 establishments) may close permanently under mandated restrictions. (Submitted photo)

A $3.3 million program to support Prince George’s County restaurants opened to applicants this week. The COVID-19 Restaurant Resiliency Program will distribute grants of up $25,000 to restaurants in the county, as well as to food trucks, farmer’s market stands ...

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Business advocates lament lack of liability protection, praise PPP in relief bill

December 23, 2020 Comments Off on Business advocates lament lack of liability protection, praise PPP in relief bill

Mike O'Halloran, state director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. (The Daily Record / Bryan P. Sears)

Local business advocates say that the stimulus bill that passed through Congress on Tuesday — which contains a second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans worth hundreds of billions — is exactly what small businesses in Maryland need to stay ...

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For Md. businesses, economic relief package offers variety of aid

December 22, 2020 Comments Off on For Md. businesses, economic relief package offers variety of aid

FILE - In this July 13, 2020, file photo a For Rent sign hangs on a closed shop during the coronavirus pandemic in Miami Beach, Fla. Nearly half of Americans whose families experienced layoffs during the pandemic now believe their lost jobs will not return, a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows, as temporary layoffs give way to shuttered businesses, bankruptcies and lasting payroll cuts. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

The economic rescue package passed by Congress contains a number of provisions to aid small businesses in Maryland, including an expansion of the Paycheck Protection Program. Also included are a number of tax breaks and other funding sources, some of ...

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No clear answer to question of vaccine mandates in the workplace

December 17, 2020 Comments Off on No clear answer to question of vaccine mandates in the workplace

An employee of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, receives one of the first COVID-19 vaccines at the medical center, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Wake Forest Baptist received its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday morning. Ten employees received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday. Additional employees will be given the vaccine in the coming days. (Walt Unks/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)

As Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine rolls out in the United States and Britain, Maryland employers are hoping the vaccine will allow them to return to the office. But it’s unclear how much the vaccine will actually change. Not all Marylanders are ...

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Restaurant industry counting on federal aid as winter looms

December 7, 2020 Comments Off on Restaurant industry counting on federal aid as winter looms

The Valley Inn, in Lutherville-Timonium, has benefited from having a large space to provide outdoor seating even before the coronavirus. (Submitted Photo)

Federal relief and COVID-19 vaccines are key to the restaurant industry’s stability in the coming months, experts on the region’s restaurant industry said Monday. During a panel on the future of the industry, Marshall Weston, president and CEO of the Restaurant ...

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Your office isn’t going away

December 2, 2020 Comments Off on Your office isn’t going away

The businesses that survive and thrive are the ones that adapt. This has certainly been the case this year as companies were forced to respond to the threat of COVID-19. Some of the changes will be short-lived and others will ...

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