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The World Cup and the ‘winner’s curse’
University of Maryland, Baltimore County economics professor Dennis Coates wrote a guest post Monday for the popular Freakonomics blog at the New York Times’ website to explain why losing out […]
Top 5: Pizza Boli franchisee under fire
Supreme Court rulings, the National Football League, consumer class-action suits, an attorney disbarred and cold pizza — last week’s most-read stories written by The Daily Record’s legal team cover many […]
Mapping Baltimore’s green spaces
A new initiative by Baltimore officials to get the city’s surplus of vacant properties back on the tax rolls has prompted an environmental nonprofit to spring into action — and […]
The ‘new normal’ v. the billable hour
A “new normal” continues to take root at law firms, according to a survey showing increases in the use of alternative fee arrangements. Almost three in 10 in-house lawyers said […]
The metamorphosis of Cyber Monday
I once worked with an editor who bristled every year at this time. The reason? Stories about “Cyber Monday.” It was all marketing hokum, he said. How are the supposed […]
Top 5: Wind energy, Black Friday and payday loans
The truncated work week didn’t keep The Daily Record’s business reporters from breaking some news in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. Also cracking the weekly top five for the […]
Port of Baltimore puts the word on the tweet
The announcement last week from the Port of Baltimore that it had “launched a Twitter page” tripped a social media alarm bell for me. The venerable state agency came off […]
Top 5: What can brown do for you?
Foreclosures, holiday shopping and troublesome text messages — these staples of the modern-day news diet dominated the list of the top 5 most-read business stories this week at The Daily […]
Top 5: Crystal balling the Md. state prosecutor pick
The reverberations from Jack Johnson’s witness- and evidence-tampering charges continued to be felt this week, both in Maryland and in the ranking of the top 5 most-read law stories at […]
Top 5: Where Tom Brady and the Orioles run neck and neck
From horse racing to the NFL’s Tom Brady to the Baltimore Orioles, sports dominated the most popular stories generated by The Daily Record’s business reporters last week. And the latest […]
Planting a seed for a green roof
A Baltimore roofing company wants to give away a “green” roof to a nonprofit looking to reduce its carbon footprint. Cole Roofing has dubbed the promotion the “Green Roof Giveaway” […]
What happens when bank failure happens
Ben Mook wrote in Wednesday’s paper about M&T Bank’s growth spurt in the region — an expansion that includes three instances where the Buffalo, N.Y.-based bank took over small banks […]
