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More, again, for Corrigan
For the 12th year in a row, Corrigan Sports Enterprises is doing more for its signature event, the Under Armour Baltimore Running Festival. More runners, more sponsors, more volunteers, more charitable...
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A premium on National Premium
National Premium beer — the more refined older brother to Natty Boh — is making its comeback on Baltimore taps Tuesday night thanks to a realtor from Easton who’s determined to return the brew, which...
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Robo-to-English translation
Those folks who have voice mail with a convert-to-text option delivered via email may have noticed that sometimes something gets lost in the translation. We received this message at home from a...
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Striking while the ballot is hot
Wasting no time after Maryland approved same-sex marriage with passage of Question 6 in Tuesday’s balloting, Visit Baltimore has put up a microsite — www.baltimore.org/lgbt-weddings — to encourage...
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You want a franchise with that?
The owners of The Melting Pot restaurants are coming north with a chain of fast casual hamburger places called Burger 21, with the first establishment in Maryland set for Rockville. Burger 21 is...
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Baggers can be choosers
All you dirty dogs out there, be on alert. Three Marylanders have developed a new way to clean pets. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Christina Ann Tarasuk, of Germantown, and Mary...
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Payroll tax hike worries small business
After months of incessant droning about ‘the fiscal cliff this, the fiscal cliff that,’ the phrase alone is almost enough to make one just go ahead and jump off. Because a long-term deal still eludes...
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Restaurant rendezvous
Just when you thought you’d prevailed through the diet-sabotaging holiday season (Pumpkin pie! Christmas cookies! Champagne!) and actually made progress on that health-related New Year’s resolution,...
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The dish on the Dish Mob
What do you get when you cross Restaurant Week with a flash mob? A food fight would be a good guess (with enormous fun potential) but the correct answer is slightly more innovative. Say hello to Dish...
View ArticleThese companies are heating up…
The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) announced 23 finalists on Wednesday for the 13th Annual Maryland Incubator Company of the Year awards, which recognize notable firms that are...
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Tossing the umpire for a machine
What would Earl Weaver think of this? A former Hagerstown resident, Jerry Spessard, has invented the Eagle Eye Electronic Home Plate for baseball. It takes the human umpiring element out of calling...
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Thanks to Food Lion, shopping for ideas
It’s always interesting when a package addressed to a reporter shows up in the newsroom’s mail drop-off. The boxes are usually sent from public relations departments and include all manner of...
View ArticleCareFirst coordinated-care program found to reduce health care costs
A program launched by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield that works to better coordinate patient care as a means of making it more affordable reduced projected health care costs for participants by $98...
View ArticleWhy medical researchers believe they’re in more trouble than we think
Earlier this month, I wrote a story about increased competition among medical researchers for grants from the National Institutes of Health at a time of declining federal funding of the Bethesda-based...
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‘House’ of awards?
It was only 18 months ago when the news came out about “House of Cards” filming in Maryland. State film officials estimated it “would spur $75 million in spending in the state and create more than...
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I didn’t steal it! Honest Tea!
Bethesda-based beverage maker Honest Tea wanted to find out how honest Americans are when no one is looking. So it set up 61 unmanned kiosks in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, stocked them...
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Boot camp is in session for local entrepreneurs
Kevin Plank (File photo) If Kevin Plank told you to raise your game, you’d do it. That’s why the CEO of Baltimore-based Under Armour Inc. was the perfect person to lead the first session of Startup...
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Does the Grand Prix encourage playing hooky?
Baltimore Grand Prix (File photo) Organizers of the Grand Prix of Baltimore — the auto race that hits downtown streets Aug. 30 through Sept. 1 — are big supporters of local students. To show their...
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College Park: An eat-able community?
The Common (photo provided) College Park is the latest jurisdiction to launch what has become an ubiquitous marketing tactic: the restaurant week. The first annual College Park Restaurant Week, in...
View ArticleReport finds Maryland scores well in fight against cancer
Maryland is ahead of most states in the fight against cancer, according to a report released Thursday by the Cancer Action Network — the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society. The report — titled...
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