Small Businesses

Ellicott City businesswoman to run for delegate in District 9B

2013-06-19 03:55:00

Ellicott City business owner and Republican Carol Loveless has filed to run for a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates representing the newly drawn District 9B in 2014. Loveless, 54, said she has been a resident of Ellicott City for over 30 years and...

David Craig assembles gubernatorial campaign team

2013-06-18 12:07:52

Harford County Executive David Craig's bid for Maryland governor is gaining added momentum as a campaign manager with proven experience and strong ties to the state will oversee strategic and operational details. The new campaign manager, Paul Ellington,...

Craig launches GOP bid for governor

2013-06-03 17:29:27

Harford County Executive David R. Craig has launched his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor in 2014, betting that he can overcome the suspicions of the far right of his party and the Democrats' 2-1 voter registration advantage in...

Don't reward companies that send profits offshore

2013-05-30 07:30:00

Rep. John Delaney's new bill offering corporations that repatriate their offshore profits deeply discounted taxes if they invest in a new infrastructure bank, praised in your editorial ("Road work ahead?" May 28), would only serve to reward the very firms...

Obamacare won't wreck the economy, but partisan warfare will

2013-05-29 07:30:00

Columnist Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s contention that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will eliminate jobs and increase costs stands upon faulty factual ground ("Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home," May 26). While the Congressional...

Rosedale train derailment creates explosion that broke windows; smoke visible for miles

2013-05-29 09:20:00

A freight train smacked into a truck carrying garbage and careened off the tracks in Rosedale Tuesday afternoon, triggering an explosion felt throughout the region and sending up a plume of black smoke visible for miles. Authorities identified the...

Train derails in Rosedale area

2013-05-28 19:43:00

Home Depot hammers the little guy, again

2013-05-21 07:00:00

In regard to your article about the hot dog stands at Home Depot ("Home Depot tells owners of hot dog stands to relocate," May 17), I am appalled that the Big Box Bully would crush a small business owner in this environment. To throw out a long-time...

5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...

Online sales tax bill should be improved, and passed

2013-05-15 12:32:00

The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill that would allow states to require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on behalf of local governments. This bill has flaws, but they could be fixed in the House. It should be passed. I don't like the idea...

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...

Labor official brings minimum-wage push to Baltimore

2013-05-13 15:27:09

The fight over the federal minimum wage is coming to Baltimore. The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make — or don't make — ends meet. Seth D. Harris, the agency'...

The National Federation of Independent BusinessIndex of Small Business Optimism rose 2.3 points to 94.4 in May, edging up for the second consecutive month.

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Magda Radtke, co-owner of JustNeem, which sells skin care products, packs orders in the company's new 3,800-square-foot space in Cary, N.C., which it moved into after outgrowing an 800-square-foot facility.

2013-06-06 00:00:00

The Anne Arundel state delegate and Annapolis jeweler faces the same challenge as Democrat Mizeur in trying to go from the General Assembly to the governor's mansion. But he's behind her in starting to build a statewide following.

2013-06-04 00:00:00