Category: Business

DCRTV:
A source tells DCRTV: “Major, major layoffs sweeping through Columbia-based Retirement Living TV. Production department completely gutted, ad sales gutted, marketing …

Laura Vozella
Steve Forbes’ yacht, The Highlander, was in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor a couple days this week.

Was the one-time presidential candidate trying to sell Mayor Sheila Dixon on the flat tax, perhaps over some Beluga caviar?

(The 151-foot yacht dishes up …

Baltimore Sun
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff today unveiled a new checkpoint screening system being tested at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and announced other measures to make the process of providing identification at check-in less hectic for travelers.

The $2.1 …

Examiner
Wabtec Corp.’s MotivePower subsidiary has received a $95 million order for commuter locomotives from the Maryland Transit Administration, the company announced Monday.

The locomotives, to be used for Maryland’s MARC commuter rail service, will be built in Boise, Idaho. They …

WBAL.com
A Baltimore City Councilwoman wants to ban restaurant and stores from serving students before school.

Currently, businesses are not allowed to wait on students unaccompanied by a parent or adult from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on school days or …

Tech Council of Maryland News Release
For Immediate Release Contact:
Michelle Ferrone
Tech Council of Maryland
301-514-5509

For Immediate Release Contact:
Nancy Carr
Gilden Integrated
410-971-0668

TECH COUNCIL OF MARYLAND CHEERS HOUSE PASSAGE OF COMPUTER SERVICES SALES TAX REPEAL

ROCKVILLE, Md (April 5, 2008) – The Tech Council of …

Baltimore Sun
Marylanders saw a bigger average increase in personal income last year than in 2006, according to new government estimates.

Personal income in the state was about $46,000 per person last year, up 2.2 percent from a year earlier, adjusting …

WBAL.com
WBAL News has learned that talks between O’Malley Administration officials and Constellation Energy to settle a pair of lawsuits, have led to an out of court settlement.

Governor Martin O’Malley is expected to announce details of the settlement, this afternoon.

Sources …

Examiner
A Virginia company won a $370 million contract to build the new home of defense information at Fort Meade.

“The contract award is the first tangible step in the Base Realignment and Closure transformation at Fort Meade,” Army Col. Kenneth …

I’ve previously posted here about the National Federation of the Blind picketing outside a Maryland Dept. of the Environment meeting last fall that was looking at adopting California emissions standards by 2011. The protesters were upset that hybrids were …