We all say the name Google with hushed reverence for its business model and aggressive ownership of the ability to slice and dice the Internet. Since its rise, we’ve all sort of hoped for another megalopoly, and while some have ...

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Sarah Bloom Raskin hasn’t been at her new job long, but she’s already making herself heard. The Senate confirmed Maryland’s former commissioner of financial oversight to a post on the Federal Reserve Board in September and she started work there ...

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OAK BROOK, Ill. — The fast-food restaurant chain McDonald’s Corp. has denied a report that it’s considering dropping health care coverage for some employees in response to a health care reform provision. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that McDonald’s, ...

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“A Maryland newspaper.” Really, The Wall Street Journal? You write about news The Daily Record broke, and you credit “a Maryland newspaper”? What, your story ran over by a line so you had to cut out our name? Or maybe ...

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Los Angeles has started an experiment aimed at curbing prostitution. It’s sending men who get caught soliciting sex to “john school.” If the men submit to an HIV test, shell out $600 for the one-day class and do not have ...

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Think you took a big hit during the economy’s recent tumble? Could be worse – you could be out $9.6 billion. That’s the value of the equity Warren Buffet has lost in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. this year, as of Oct. ...

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The Wall Street Journal has a great story today on offbeat lawyer advertisements and the ulcers they cause in state bar officials. From the piece: But the Florida bar isn’t buckling. It filed a complaint in 2004 against Fort Lauderdale ...

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Akin to the American Bar Association’s “Lawyer of the Year” award, the Wall Street Journal last week asked its readers to nominate their most newsworthy lawyer of the year. Well, the results are in – but nobody seems to know ...

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I woke up this morning wondering how long it would it would take to see the effects of Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of The Wall Street Journal. I didn’t have long to wait. When I opened my front door, my Journal ...

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Before the ink on the contracts had dried and long before journalism’s purists stopped gnashing their teeth, word came Wednesday from the Federal Communications Commission that Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of The Wall Street Journal is still not a done deal. ...

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