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No money, mo problems
Looks like more bad news this week for law school graduates. Starting salaries for the class of 2011 are down across the board. Mean starting salaries for first-year associates fell […]
Luck of the law
After graduating law school, some people spend their summer studying for the bar exam and some people win hundreds of thousands of dollars playing poker. Vanessa Selbst graduated from Yale […]
Owe no: Schilling may not be so much on the hook
Is Curt Schilling going to be forced to auction off the bloody sock? The retired big-league pitcher has said he could lose $50 million personally in the mess that is […]
Baltimore Co. library steps up its fundraising
The Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library Inc. is stepping up its fundraising efforts with “Taste of the Town,” the largest fundraising event in its 22-year history. The event, which […]
Task force readies report on Montgomery transit
ROCKVILLE — A Montgomery County task force says a rapid bus network there would cost about $1.83 billion to build and another $1.1 million per mile each year to operate. […]
Advice on joining a lottery pool: Don’t do it
WASHINGTON — Every once in a while a lottery jackpot becomes so huge that people can’t help but band together in the hope of increasing their odds, pooling their money […]
Army drops plan for Fort Detrick animal biodefense lab
FREDERICK — The Army says it is dropping plans for a high-security animal laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick that would have been used for public and private research on […]
Fed cuts estimate of 2011 payment to government
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is slightly cutting its estimate of how much it paid the federal government in 2011. But the bank says the payment is still the second […]
Report: Metro knew train brake parts were failing
WASHINGTON — Metro officials have known for six years that some of the agency’s rail cars have brake parts that fail sooner than expected, but the transit agency did not […]
Bookworm: Thoughts about money that are worth more than a penny
It was hardly worth picking up. Yep, there was once a time when that penny you spotted on the pavement was worth something more than just 1 cent. You could […]
What’s your New Year’s resolution?
With much of the stress of the holidays over now and work not as busy as normal this week, it’s a good time for many of us to reflect on […]
Six days left: dig deep for charity
Including today, you have six days left to give to charity for that all-important 2011 tax deduction. If you’re like me, you started out strong in the early part of […]
