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Sep 28, 2010

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 […]

Mar 2, 2010

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 […]

Jun 16, 2009

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 […]

May 18, 2009

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 […]

Apr 14, 2009

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 […]

Apr 1, 2009

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 […]

Jun 25, 2008

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, […]

Oct 24, 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 […]

Oct 24, 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 […]