Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) articles from June 2005

Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) archives from June 2005

50 investors attend BioConnection event in Baltimore to scout biotech companies.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Rachel K. King of GlycoMimetics Inc. had an audience of venture capitalists looking specifically for biotech firms like hers yesterday at the BioConnection event. The more widely focused CapitalConnection is...

MD businessman to announce soon if his group will bid for Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park.
June 1, 2005... Byline: James Mosher Terry H. Saxon plans to announce this month whether a group of investors he heads will offer to buy Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park. Saxon, an Eastern Shore businessman, plans to make an announcement at the...

Sedan transportation companies ask Maryland to reduce insurance rates.
June 1, 2005... Byline: James Mosher Sedan transportation companies are expecting a favorable ruling on their appeal of a 52.8 percent auto insurance increase, according to one owner. Connie Galiani, proprietor of Towson Sedan Inc., said she expects a...

Federal agencies trying to make homes in Baltimore more affordable amid soaring prices.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Jen DeGregorio With home prices in Baltimore rising quickly, many Baltimoreans' fear their dreams of homeownership are fast becoming out of reach. Prices rose more than 60 percent from 1998 to 2004, and the average city house...

Five companies in line for Maryland's prison health contracts.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Dori Berman Five companies will provide health care services in Maryland's correctional facilities when the current provider's contract expires at month's end, under contracts awaiting votes by the Board of Public Works today. ...

Tennessee-based Prison Health Services sues Baltimore County.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Caryn Tamber The company that provides medical services to Baltimore County inmates is arguing that it should not have to continue delivering those services at the county's expanded prison. Tennessee-based Prison Health...

MD Legal Briefs: June 1, 2005.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Telemarketer charged The Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland attorney general's office said yesterday it has charged Chesapeake Window & Building Inc., a Linthicum-based window contractor, with...

Baltimore County Councilman withdraws resolution for moratorium on development in Carney.
June 1, 2005... Byline: James Mosher Baltimore County Councilman Vincent J. Gardina withdrew a resolution aimed at controlling development and suburban sprawl in Carney. Resolution 60-05 was pulled by the 5th District councilman, a Democrat who...

4th Circuit rules federal government cannot be sued for injury caused by unsecured beam at Quantico.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Barbara Grzincic The federal government cannot be sued for failing to bolt an elevated 22-foot wooden beam at an obstacle course at Quantico Marine Corps Base, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held. The 2-1 decision is...

LA jury acquits David Rosen of attempting to conceal costs of fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Ann Parks As Paul Mark Sandler tells the story, it was late on a Los Angeles night when he got a knock on the door from a client. The client was David F. Rosen, former national finance director for Hillary Rodham Clinton's...

Advisor Confidence Index shows financial advisors more confident about economy.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Financial advisors felt more confident in May than in April, according to Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Inc., an affiliate of Rydex Investments, of Rockville, a mutual fund company. The Advisor Confidence Index,...

Steve Kozak begins job as director of Greater Baltimore Technology Council.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Today is Steve Kozak's first day as executive director of the Greater Baltimore Technology Council. Kozak, who began work at the council in 2001 as an assistant director, succeeds Penny Lewandowski, who left...

Micros Systems ranked on three different lists of fastest-growing companies.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Micros Systems Inc., of Columbia, a provider of information systems to the hospitality and retail industries, announced that it is ranked No. 32 on Business 2.0's 2005 list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Tech...

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. ranks 62nd among BusinessWeek's top 100 Hot Growth Companies.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc., of Hampstead, a manufacturer and retailer of upscale men's clothing and accessories, said it achieved the No. 62 ranking among the top 100 Hot Growth Companies selected by...

Lockheed Martin receives $50M contract from Royal Danish Air Force.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, said it received a contract valued at approximately $50 million from the Air Material Command of the Royal Danish Air Force for two long-range AN/TPS-77 transportable radar...

Columbia-based Paratek Microwave Inc. raises $15M in third financing round.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Paratek Microwave Inc., of Columbia, which develops and manufactures radio frequency tunable components, said a third financing round raised $15 million. Previous venture capital investors in the company...

Multimax Inc. of Largo awarded task order by Army Corps of Engineers for IT support services.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Multimax Inc., of Largo, an information technology products and services company focused on the federal, state and local government markets, said it has been awarded a task order by the Army Corps of...

Towson-based 4GL School Solutions selected by West Central Joint Services.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports 4GL School Solutions Inc., of Towson, a provider of comprehensive, special education management services to school districts, has been selected by West Central Joint Services, a special education cooperative...

Salisbury officials consider relocation of city offices.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Salisbury officials are considering a move to relocate the city offices out of the Government Office Building on North Division Street. The city shares the building with the Wicomico County government. Nearly...

$2M in cash grants awarded to MD and VA schools by Giant Food's BonusBucks program.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Giant Food LLC, of Landover, said 3,900 public and private schools in Maryland and Virginia benefited to the tune of some $2 million in cash grants from its 2004-2005 "A+ BonusBucks" program. The program...

Johns Hopkins Bayview and Johns Hopkins Hospital awarded stroke care certification.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Stroke care certified Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins Hospital have earned certification for stroke care from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations....

MD motorists' advocacy group wants Ocean City Council to reject parking fine increase.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Citizens for Safe and Efficient Travel, a Maryland-based motorists' advocacy group, is calling on the Ocean City Council to reject a proposed increase in parking fines that would more than double the penalty...

Prison pacts withstand opposition.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Dori Berman Opposition from some civil liberties advocacy groups could not stop the Board of Public Works from approving contracts yesterday with five companies to provide health care services at the state's correctional...

Five Below targeting Maryland with low prices, trendy merchandise.
June 2, 2005... Byline: James Mosher Teenagers' piggybanks are as fat as country hogs these days, and one company is riding that trend to growth in Maryland. Five Below Inc. is harnessing kid power, selling colorful, trendy merchandise at low prices....

Baltimore Development Corp. insider named to oversee $1B West Side initiative.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Kara Kridler The Baltimore Development Corp. yesterday named one of its staff members, Kathy A. L. Robertson, to spearhead the $1 billion makeover of downtown Baltimore's West Side. Robertson, an employee of the quasi-public...

4th Circuit makes a federal case out of lying to mother.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Barbara Grzincic A man who concealed his wrongdoing at work from his supervisor who was also his mother was properly convicted of federal mail fraud based on the daily reports his mother mailed to her boss, the 4th U.S. Circuit...

Baltimore residential property tax credit lines drawn.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Jen DeGregorio Baltimore City Council members might face dissent in their attempt to extend a property-tax credit program launched in 1995 to bring home owners back to Charm City. The initiative began during a decade that saw...

CSA: Salisbury 9/11 fundraiser guilty of theft.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Caryn Tamber A man who profited off public sympathy following the 9/11 attacks by soliciting donations to help with relief efforts, then keeping them, was properly convicted of felony theft, the state's intermediate appellate court...

Early stage companies re-emerge at venture capital fair.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Some of the hottest private companies in the mid-Atlantic and about 250 venture capitalists converged in Baltimore yesterday at the annual Capital Connection fair. The event at the Marriott Waterfront...

Uncapped asbestos award affirmed by Court of Special Appeals.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Ann Parks Five weeks after the Court of Appeals upheld a $1.2 million judgment against an Ohio manufacturer for asbestos exposure, the Court of Special Appeals has followed its lead in refusing to apply Maryland's cap on...

Md. joins D.C., Va. in pursuit of big cash from tiny technology.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Joe Bacchus Science fiction is giving way to scientific progress, and Maryland wants in. The state has joined Virginia and Washington in an alliance to help turn the region into a global competitor in the growing nanotechnology...

Cancer drug available free to uninsured Maryland residents.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Robyn Lamb Uninsured Maryland residents will be entitled to receive the cancer drug Taxol for free as part of drug manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s antitrust settlement. The Maryland attorney general's office is expected...

Trammell Crow extends license agreement with MD-based CoStar Group.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports CoStar Group Inc., of Bethesda, a provider of information services to the U.S. commercial real estate industry, said Texas-based Trammell Crow Co., one of the world's largest diversified real estate service...

Anne Arundel County Exec. Owens to sign Friendship Agreement in Denmark.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Anne Arundel County Executive Janet S. Owens announced that she will sign a formal Friendship Agreement in Denmark tomorrow with the Danish-American Business Forum. The agreement will be the foundation for...

MD-based Computer Forensic Group acquired by LanpherWilson Corp.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Computer Forensic Group Inc., of Germantown, was acquired by LanpherWilson Corp., of Reston, Va., a professional recruiting and staffing consulting firm, and renamed Turiss, a digital investigations and...

Hughes Network Systems sees increase in number of subscribers.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Hughes Network Systems LLC, of Germantown, a supplier of broadband satellite services, announced that its Direcway broadband services achieved double-digit growth in consumer and small-business subscribers...

Some Frederick residents push to restore original name to school.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Some black residents of Frederick hope to restore the original name, Lincoln School, to South Frederick Elementary School. The school was a black-only institution during the era of segregation. The Lincoln...

Md-based WeatherBug launching nationwide network of weather reporters.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports WeatherBug, of Gaithersburg, an online weather information service, said it is launching a nationwide network of weather reporters who will collect, report and share weather information from their own personal...

MD-based CompuDyne Corp. receives $13.7M in awards during April.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports CompuDyne Corp., of Annapolis, a supplier of products and technology for the public security markets, said it received $13.7 million in awards during April, which included $1.5 million in awards and...

ICOA Inc. acquires MD-based WiSE Technologies.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports ICOA Inc., of Warwick, R.I., a national provider of wireless broadband Internet networks and managed services in airports, restaurants, marinas and hot zones, said it closed its acquisition of WiSE...

The Board of Public Works approves award of $20M contract to Coakley Williams Construction.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Board of Public Works yesterday approved the award of a nearly $20 million contract to Coakley Williams Construction Inc., of Gaithersburg, to build a new, five-level, 241,000-square-foot parking garage...

Fly EZ Air LLC launches charter flights to Atlantic City and Ocean City.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Fly EZ Air LLC, an air charter company based in Middle River, announced the start of "shared charter flights" to Atlantic City and Ocean City from Baltimore and Martinsburg, W.Va. The flight in an...

MD-based 3e Technologies International pays $100K to Business Software Alliance in settlement.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports 3e Technologies International Inc., of Rockville, a wireless infrastructure and applications company, paid $100,000 to the Business Software Alliance, of Washington, which represents the nation's major...

MD-based MobilePro Corp. reports net loss of $5.3M.
June 2, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports MobilePro Corp., of Bethesda, a provider of wireless technology and broadband telecommunications services, reported a net loss of $5.3 million, or 2 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $46.5 million for...

Commentary: War powers, war lies: A series.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Jack Gohn As the Vietnam War raged, and the damage it inflicted upon the United States mounted, the war's opponents besought the courts to call a halt. This should not have been hard. After all, there was no declaration of war,...

Who is on the hook for Baltimore Convention Center hotel?
June 3, 2005... Byline: Jen DeGregorio Baltimore hoteliers are of different minds about the city's plan to build a publicly financed $305 million headquarters hotel for the Baltimore Convention Center. However, they agree on this: Not one of them is...

Profitable MobilePro sees more black ink in its future.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Joe Bacchus MobilePro Corp. reported its first profitable quarter this week, and company officials expect to stay in the black for a long time to come. The Bethesda-based wireless broadband company reported net income of...

Expansion of Baltimore transit system stirs fears on West Side.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Dori Berman Public hearings on a proposed east-west transit line in Baltimore begin next week but some merchants are worried the project administrators won't listen to their concerns. The Maryland Transit Administration is in...

Commentary: NY Yankees remind us: Successful teams depend on teamwork.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Barry Brownstein With the terrible way that they have been playing, this spring has been a good time for those who dislike the New York Yankees. Now, having grown up in the Bronx and having idolized Mickey Mantle and the...

Commentary: Turning problems into opportunities.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Louise Phipps Senft This article will discuss mediation in non-commercial real estate matters. This subject matter is high on the list of disputes for which mediation is especially fitting for a number of reasons. First of all,...

Officials prepare to defend Maryland's military bases, again.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Joe Bacchus The military base realignment and closure recommendations this spring brought good news for Maryland the state would see a net gain of almost 6,500 military and civilian jobs under the U.S Department of Defense plan....

MD entrepreneurs' refusal to give up pays off.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Neil Young All Vaughn Greene and Bill Miller could do was shake their heads. After 18 months of careful planning and market research, they had just been rejected for a business loan for the fourth time. "It sucked all the...

Commentary: Fundraising: Ask and you shall receive.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Betsy Nelson It seems that everybody wants our money these days, and like everything else, even organizational pleas for support are super-sized. In an age where everything bigger is better, fundraising has become an extreme...

Construction, manufacturing drive Maryland economic index.
June 3, 2005... Byline: John Hopkins The RESI Maryland Leading Index grew by 0.2 percent in March and was up 2.9 percent over the prior 12 months. Declining welfare activity in addition to increasing construction, airport and manufacturing activity...

Commentary: Photo sites offer Father's Day gifts.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Larry Fiorino Digital cameras, as part of a cell phone or on their own, are one of the hottest items in the electronics market today. But once those pictures are taken, what options do consumers have? Where should all of these...

Commentary: Is no e-mail sacred anymore?
June 3, 2005... Byline: Mark Cheshire To: betamale@state.gov From: demoneditor@newspaper.com Subject: Top secret Must preface this top-secret e-mail with warning. My emoticons are broken. Not sure how I'm going to convey depth of my feelings...

Obesity feeds demand for medical weight loss alternatives.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Robyn Lamb To lose weight, Tina Schneider tried just about everything over the years. She did Weight Watchers seven or eight times, bought and tried nearly every diet book on the market. But eventually, the weight would always...

To boost employee morale, companies take to the not-so-high seas.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe When 36 workers from a Baltimore information technology team gathered last week, it wasn't in a conference room. It was on a dock in the Inner Harbor. Blue skies replaced desks. White sails supplanted white...

Commentary: Before lawsuits rain down on you, consider buying an umbrella.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Frank Rapisarda Millions of lawsuits are filed each year in the United States against individuals in all walks of life as the result of automobile accidents, incidents involving personal watercraft, home-based business liability,...

Commentary: MD's 2006 gubernatorial race shaping up to be bare-knuckle politics.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Dori Berman Election Day 2006 is still a year and a half away, but the Annapolis press corps is already drooling over the prospect of one of the ugliest campaign seasons in the history of Maryland politics. Gov. Robert L....

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services delays take toll on immigrants' dreams.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Lawrence Hurley When Mann Singh emigrated from India, his ultimate dream was to bring his wife and children with him. But that dream has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare thanks, he says, to the Kafka-esque inefficiency of...

Commentary: Emotion in the courtroom.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Paul Sandler Emotion is a powerful force in all human affairs, including arguments. When you like certain people, you are more inclined to accept what they say and to do what they want. When you are angry with them, you are...

Techlink-Jenny Regan: Asking smart questions to win clients' trust.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Greater Baltimore Technology Council The Greater Baltimore Technology Council recently interviewed Jenny Regan, president and chief executive of Key Technologies Inc., which designs and builds technology products for client...

Commentary: Techlink-Distinguishing future biotech successes from the 'science projects'.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Donald C. Fry To Dr. John W. Holaday, the difference between biotech research and business can be viewed as a matter of where the decimal point falls. "We all huddle around the decimal place," he said. Life science...

Commentary: Techlink-Finding the people to fuel the technology.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Bob Thomas From running a company smoothly, increasing productivity, or providing better products and services to clients, new and updated technology is critical. Therefore, the individuals who make technology work are equally as...

Commentary: Industrial revolution-Enzymes work as catalysts for cheaper, safer consumer goods.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Lauren Scott If there weren't alarm clocks, how many businesspeople would be able to draw themselves from their warm-bed cocoon and drag themselves to the office to carry out an honest day's work? In scientific processes,...

Commentary: Detox treatment claims to end opiate addiction - painlessly - in hours.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Shelly Schwartz For those hooked on heroin or prescription painkillers, the only thing better than scoring the next fix is finding a way out. Opiate addicts, who represent a large percentage of Maryland drug abusers, often fail...

Commentary: Techlink-Franchising and the Internet revolution.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Charles E. Rosolio The Internet has profoundly affected how companies conduct businesses by revolutionizing operating methods and changing the field of competition. The same is true for franchising. Besides reshaping their...

Commentary: Electric Internet-Web access via power lines could end the 'digital divide'.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Barnaby Wickham Whether a telecommuter has to get a big report to the big cheese in little time, or whether an avid collector finds the one item missing from her curio up for bid on eBay with time running out, many consumers feel...

Annapolis-based Harbinger Technologies Group can help government agencies with counterterrorism.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Carolyn Taschner On July 4, 2002, Hesham Mohamed Ali Hedayet walked up to an El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport and opened fire, killing two people before being shot dead himself. An investigation into...

Commentary: Learning in 3D-Md. company brings augmented reality to the assembly line.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Nicole Leistikow Late one night, while taking a break from a college math tutorial, Jayfus Doswell had an epiphany as he watched "The Lawnmower Man." There is a scene in the 1992 movie when renegade scientist Pierce Brosnan...

Commentary: Technology to maintain order has potential for diagnosing memory loss.
June 3, 2005... Byline: Shelly Schwartz Someday it could help solve the mystery of memory loss, giving doctors a much-needed tool to diagnose Alzheimer's disease early on. But for now, the theory of virtual associative networks (VAN), which seeks to...

Marian House offers second chance to Baltimore women.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Kristen Keener After being incarcerated for 13 years on a charge of murdering her children's father, Juanita Felicia Brown wasn't sure where she would go when she was released. Months before she was set to leave the Maryland...

Commentary: See the pros tee it up in Maryland.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Joe Rahnis Area golfers will be fortunate to have several opportunities in the coming weeks and months to see some great golf action in person in the Baltimore area. Both the LPGA Championship and the Booz Allen Classic will be...

Reistertown Village now 100 percent leased.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Reisterstown Village, a shopping mall on Main Street in Reisterstown, is now 100 percent leased, according to leasing agent Larry Mekulski of KLNB Retail. The 20,000-square-foot shopping center, developed by...

Baltimore County bookmobile getting ready to hit the road.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports A Baltimore County bookmobile half financed by area businesses is getting ready to hit the road. The $225,000 vehicle, which had its dedication ceremony yesterday, will cater to children in day-care centers...

MIE Properties to break ground for office plaza in Anne Arundel County.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports MIE Properties Inc. also announced plans to break ground for a 300,000-square-foot flex/office plaza in Anne Arundel County in the fourth quarter of this year. The plaza, a joint venture with Somerset...

United Way of Central MD receives $12,000 donation.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The United Way of Central Maryland received a $12,000 donation from the Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce. The donation stemmed from a golf tournament which the two nonprofit organizations worked together...

Johns Hopkins Medicine offering new, personalized concierge service.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Johns Hopkins Medicine is offering a new, personalized concierge service to help women manage their doctors' appointments at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, outpatient center, satellite facilities at White Marsh...

Baltimore Crossroads @95 issued road grading permit.
June 4, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Baltimore Crossroads @95 has been issued a road grading permit, signaling building of the planned Baltimore County office park has begun. The 1,000-acre development, located on the east side of the county...

MD Legal Briefs: June 6, 2005.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Ex-state worker pleads Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. announced Friday that Lucinda Nasario-Easley, 29, of Largo, was convicted of bribery and felony theft in Prince George's County Circuit Court....

Mysterious Essex climb pushes Md. stocks up slightly.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Last week Maryland stocks held onto increases even as declining stocks Friday wiped out gains in broader markets from earlier in the week. T. Rowe Price analysts said rising oil prices combined with...

Md. biotechs fourth in Ernst & Young's annual ranking.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Robyn Lamb After falling from its third-place perch last year, Maryland held onto fourth place in Ernst & Young's annual ranking of state's with the highest concentration of biotechnology companies. Maryland's 84 biotechnology...

Three Maryland businesses pocket state aid.
June 6, 2005... Byline: Joe Bacchus The Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority has granted a total of $698,000 in financial assistance to three Maryland companies. All-Pro Placement Service Inc., a Timonium-based temp and...