DLLR secretary takes heat for removing report
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley‘s labor secretary said Tuesday it was his idea to seek the removal of all online traces of an internal economic report that he said was […]
Exxon update: MDE will consider the request to reconsider
Following reports by our own Danny Jacobs and others that the Maryland Department of the Environment had decided to lift some of Exxon’s remediation requirements in the area of the massive […]
A legal game of H-O-R-S-E
H. Mercedes Clemens, a certified personal massage therapist in Rockville, expected to be back at her side business of massaging horses by now. But her efforts to end a cease-and-desist order […]
FDIC backpeddles on banks
It’s not often that the FDIC puts out a statement to clarify something written by a news organization, but that’s what it did on Friday. According to Bloomberg, FDIC Chairman […]
Here comes the Tarp Cop
The government is trying to figure out if banks massaged their books in order to receive a piece of the $700 billion bank bailout, and it has Neil Barofsky, special […]
Sharfstein’s on the job
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Dr. Joshua Sharfstein is already hard at work at his new job. On March 30, Sharfstein’s first day as acting commissioner of the FDA, the government issued a […]
Untraceable guns, untraceable crime
According to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, gun dealers nationwide “lost” an average of at least 82 firearms every day last year. For all of fiscal year 2007, […]
Is $18 million too much?
The new Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Ralph S. Tyler, said Wednesday he will convene a hearing to see if the $18-plus million severance package for former CareFirst CEO William L. Jews […]
Is $18 million too much?
The new Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Ralph S. Tyler, said Wednesday he will convene a hearing to see if the $18-plus million severance package for former CareFirst CEO William L. Jews […]





