Fergenson and West: Maryland doesn’t mean business
Chanukah is almost upon us, time for the children’s game called dreidel. A top is spun, and depending upon which face lands up, a player puts a token — a piece of chocolate money — in the pot, takes half the tokens out, passes, or takes all the tokens out of the pot. A player […]
Report: Maryland ranks near the bottom as ‘free’ state
The Free State really isn’t very free, according to a new report from the Mercatus Center in Northern Virginia, a libertarian research group. According to a study from the Mercatus Center that looks at how truly free each state is, Maryland ranked 43rd, seventh from the bottom. Done by two scholars with the George Mason […]
Toyota, Honda lead quality rankings but GM gains
DETROIT — The most problem-free cars and trucks are made by Honda and Toyota, but Ford is closing in fast and General Motors is making big quality improvements, according to Consumer Reports magazine’s 2010 reliability rankings. Ford and GM continue to narrow the large quality gap that once separated Toyota and other Asian automakers from […]