Preakness mess takes a lot of people to clean up
At first glance, Pimlico Race Course's infield didn't look quite as trash-filled as Yolanda Wade is used to seeing it the Sunday morning after the Preakness, despite record crowds this...
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‘Mad Men’ selling … homes?
The lexicon of real estate listing language has many terms for putting a positive spin on features the average buyer wouldn't like. "Bold" for the orange-and-green themed condo. "Cute" for...
Early start to Black Friday for shoppers, stores
This year, the packed-house madness that is Black Friday had petered out well before dawn. With many stores opening at midnight Thursday and some starting sales hours earlier, thousands of...
Apartment rents rise as homeownership sinks
Apartment complexes in the Baltimore region are raising rents as a muted economic recovery and a foreclosure crisis have discouraged homeownership — and added to the ranks of renters. Rental...
Housing boom, bust left different effects
A variety of Baltimore neighborhoods ended the roller-coaster ride of the past decade with significantly higher home values than at the start, but some communities saw all the gains of...
Customers in Florida unsold on bigger utility
Lou Barry has seen his Florida Power & Light Co. bill soar because of hurricane-related surcharges and adjustments for higher fuel costs. So when parent FPL Group Inc. announced its...
CEG, FPL agree to stiff fees if deal fails
Some investors may not like the price FPL Group Inc. has agreed to pay for Constellation Energy Group Inc., but the companies made sure that a competitor would need very...
Leaders stress their merger to be a ‘marriage’ of equals
In every detail, down to their coordinated dark suits with red ties, the chief executives at Constellation Energy Group Inc. and FPL Group Inc. wanted to drive home the message...
Work programs assailed in Senate
WASHINGTON // U.S. senators yesterday sharply criticized the results of a pair of federal work programs for people with disabilities, saying too few are helped and many of them are...
Housing tax rise bonanza for Md.
The hot housing market, which has made many people feel rich on paper, is sending hundreds of millions in extra cash into state and local coffers. Maryland's property transfer tax...