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Price's Brian Rogers throws his support behind Jamie Dimon

2013-05-16 12:25:00

Brian Rogers, manager of the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund in Baltimore, won't be voting the fund's shares in support of splitting the role of CEO and chairman at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon has been CEO at JP Morgan since 2005 and became...

Taxing Internet sales

2013-05-11 04:00:00

In 1998, when President Bill Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially...

HBO renews Baltimore-made 'VEEP' for a third season

2013-05-01 12:50:00

On Wednesday, HBO renewed the Baltimore-made sitcom "VEEP" for a third season. That means the series, which stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Vice President Selina Meyer, will be producing another 10 episodes in the Baltimore area next year. That's good...

Radio Reading Network director finds joy, purpose, through the air

2013-04-28 13:16:10

As far back as Robert Lewis can remember, he has been fascinated by what he heard on the radio — he would even sneak a receiver under his pillow when he was younger so he could listen to music late at night. Decades later, he's still feeling that...

On sequestration, Obama becomes extortionist in chief

2013-02-23 00:00:00

At the end of 1995 and stretching into January 1996, the federal government "shut down" because of an impasse between President Bill Clinton and House Republicans led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The issue was increased taxes vs. less spending....

How come we don't hear about 'conservative media bias'?

2013-03-05 10:16:00

Liberal media bias. So incessant is this complaint from conservatives that the three words string together as one, like Holy Roman Empire. But like the old saw about that infamous regime being neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, liberal media bias...

Can the GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?

2013-04-01 03:00:00

Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...

Liberal media bias is beyond doubt

2013-03-18 03:00:00

For about 20 years, I have been teaching a course at Towson University called "Media Criticism," which deals largely with alleged ideological media bias. The claims of liberal bias in the mainstream media go back at least as far as Barry Goldwater's...

What Rand Paul got right

2013-03-14 00:00:00

I hope I'm not too late to the fight. Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Mr. Paul's stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for...

Yahoo's ban on working from home prompts criticism

2013-03-01 14:09:48

It didn't take long for the talk at this week's national work-life conference in Baltimore to turn to Yahoo Inc. The Internet company's new ban on employees working from home has proved wildly unpopular with working mothers who had expected more...

Stylebook conservatism

2013-02-22 07:48:00

As you may have read, the Associated Press decided this week that its writers are permitted to use husband and wife for same-sex couples, in those jurisdictions where same-sex marriage is legal. Should you not have read about it, I commend to your...

The smell test: another sense lost to aging

2013-02-18 03:00:00

Just when we were getting our heads around the idea that many (if not most) of us will lose brain function as we age, there is news that another one of those physical gifts we take for granted is likely to leave us. Our sense of smell. It is a bit...

No. 50 United Technologies 2013 Revenues: $59.8 billion President of United Technologies Corporation Louis R. Chenevert speaks at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council meeting on rebuilding global prosperity in Washington, in this November 17, 2009, file photo. Diversified U.S.

2013-04-23 00:00:00

Why: The TV industry's best hope of shutting down TV startup Aereo Inc. anytime soon could rest, bizarrely enough, on a legal case involving something called Aereokiller LLC.

2013-04-10 00:00:00

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2013-04-09 11:56:00