Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) articles from October 2003

Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) archives from October 2003

Magellan Health Services creditor supports reorganization plan.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Magellan Health Services Inc. of Columbia, a behavioral managed health care insurer, said it has the support of its largest unsecured creditor, R2 Investments LDC, for a reorganization plan that, if approved...

NexTone Communications supplying Gateway Communications with Internet routing equip.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports NexTone Communications, a Germantown-based provider of advanced telecommunications network systems, is supplying London-based Gateway Communications, a provider of communications services in Africa and the...

Fund-raising drive being held for Hurricane Isabel victims.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Local chapters of Ronald McDonald House Charities and Baltimore/Washington regional area McDonald's restaurants have joined in a fund-raising drive, starting today and lasting until Oct. 15, to help the...

Baltimore County Volunteers seeking individuals, group to 'adopt' hurricane victims.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Baltimore County Volunteers, an initiative of Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr., is seeking individuals and groups to "adopt" families affected by Hurricane Isabel. Volunteers will be matched with...

Visual Analytics Inc. to furnish technology for Law Enforcement Info. Exchange.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Visual Analytics Inc., of Poolesville, which develops visual data mining software, was selected by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the U.S. Navy's primary law enforcement arm, to furnish technology...

Advertising.com launches automated online advertising platform.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Baltimore-based Advertising.com, a provider of marketing services to interactive advertisers and publishers, launched an automated online advertising platform, allowing advertisers to create Web and e-mail...

Ajilon Consulting, ITCentrix Inc. unveil IT Value Management.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Ajilon Consulting, a Towson-based information technology consulting firm, and ITCentrix Inc., a Framingham, Mass.-based company maker of business analytics and portfolio management software, unveiled IT Value...

Systems Alliance furnishing U of MD, Baltimore with Site Executive.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Systems Alliance Inc., of Sparks, which makes Web development and content management software, is furnishing the University of Maryland, Baltimore with Site Executive, its Web content management system....

Sourcefire Inc. deploys Intrusion Management System for Pentair Inc.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Columbia-based Sourcefire Inc., a developer of Internet security technology, has deployed its Intrusion Management System for Pentair Inc., a Minnesota-based manufacturer of tools, pumps and valves and...

SEC accuses Md. man of swindling.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe A defense lawyer insists the Securities and Exchange Commission erred in suing a Poolesville man Monday for bilking his own Bethesda face-certificate company of $2 million.The SEC's complaint alleges John...

Town and County Trust acquires 328-unit apartment community.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Town and Country Trust, a Baltimore-based real estate investment trust, acquired Windsor at Lionsgate, a 3-year-old, 328-unit apartment community in Herndon, Va. The property was acquired in anticipation...

The Verizon Foundation gives $75K grant to U of MD Foundation.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, gave a $75,000 grant to support the University of Maryland Foundation's Access to Opportunity project, which provides need-based...

Bill boosts Baltimore City housing.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Ezra Fieser The Baltimore Development Corp. now has the authority to set up payments in lieu of taxes, or PILOTs, for developers of market-rate housing on state-owned land in Baltimore. That ability, granted in a recent bill,...

Conference brings new technology to elder care.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Bobby White Bringing the convenience and productivity of technology into the expanding elder-care arena is the focus of a meeting this week at the National Institutes of Health.Organizers with the Setting Priorities for Retirement...

Bill pegs tax revenue to school construction.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Robyn Lamb A bill approved by the Montgomery County Council dedicates a previously approved increase in recordation tax to the construction of new schools.The increase, which took effect in July of last year, nets the county about...

Emergency test set in Worcester County.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Daily Record Staff Business Writer Worcester County is one of a handful of jurisdictions in the nation that will test a communications system aimed at linking first responders in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist...

Liquor licensees must seek county board approval for adult shows.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Lawrence Hurley The liquor licensing board in Prince George's County has the right to require venue proprietors to ask for permission if they want to stage adult entertainment, the Court of Special Appeals has held.In an unreported...

Judge H. Kemp MacDaniel honored by colleagues, family, friends.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Alisa Bralove A common-sense judge, progressive legislator, political animal, hometown boy and family man.Those were some of the words family and colleagues used to memorialize H. Kemp MacDaniel, the former Court of Special Appeals...

Commentary: MoneyWi$e - Getting ready for stork's delivery.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Julius Westheimer How do you get ready financially for the arrival of your first child?"Few events have a more profound impact on one's life and finances than the arrival of a first child," says Financial Planning Perspectives....

MD Legal Briefs October 1, 2003.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Wal-Mart butts outThe Maryland Attorney General's office, together with the offices of 42 other attorneys general, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., reached an agreement under which the Arkansas-based retailer will...

Support rebuilds for illegal immigrant tuition bill.
October 1, 2003... Byline: Andrea Cecil Two organizations representing Maryland's Latino community are renewing the call for giving undocumented immigrants in-state tuition at Maryland colleges and universities.Officials with both CASA of Maryland Inc. and...

Phillips Annapolis Harbor restaurant offering temp. employment to hurricane victims.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Phillips Annapolis Harbor restaurant is offering hourly workers in the Annapolis restaurant industry, who are out of work due to damage caused to their workplaces by Hurricane Isabel, temporary and part-time...

Fitch Ratings downgrades Allegheny Energy's status.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Fitch Ratings has downgraded Hagerstown-based Allegheny Energy Inc. and its subsidiaries, revising the group's Rating Watch status from "Evolving" to "Negative." The bond rating service said the troubled...

Wood Street Inc. to donate Web design services to Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Wood Street Inc., a Frederick-based marketing and Web development company, is donating Web design services to the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, of Ellicott City, an outreach program for young adults...

Chesapeake Utilities Corp. wins approval for $8.52M expansion of Eastern Shore pipeline.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Chesapeake Utilities Corp., which distributes natural gas in Delaware and Maryland, won U.S. approval for an $8.52 million expansion of its Eastern Shore pipeline to meet higher fuel demand. The Eastern Shore...

Gov. Ehrlich names Assistant Secretary for Tourism, Film and the Arts.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. named Dennis M. Castleman as Assistant Secretary for Tourism, Film and the Arts in the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. Castleman, a former hotel industry...

Second annual Bea Gaddy Day planned.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The second annual Bea Gaddy Day, a citywide food drive to promote awareness of poverty in Baltimore, will take place tomorrow, with stores, banks, schools, churches and municipal buildings throughout the city...

Cost for taxicab ride in Montgomery County goes up.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The cost for a taxicab ride in Montgomery County went up yesterday by an average of $1 per trip. The increase the first since 2000 is designed to help taxi drivers meet their expenses and defray the added...

Essex Corp. receives defense-related contract for $57M.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Essex Corp., of Columbia, an optical and communications engineering company, said it received a defense-related contract valued at $57 million over four years a three-month base period plus four option...

American Lawyer praises Baltimore firms.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Alisa Bralove Miles & Stockbridge has been named number 10 on The American Lawyer's annual list of the best places to work, up from its number 64 spot last year.In addition to its high-scoring spot on the list of 159 firms, the...

Families make bid to revive thimerosal cases.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Peter Geier Fifty-three families who attribute their children's neurological damage to vaccines containing the mercury compound thimerosal have asked the Court of Appeals to order a Baltimore judge to reinstate or dismiss their...

Sensics awarded $50K from MD Technology Transfer Fund.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Sensics, an incubator company located in the Emerging Technology Center in Baltimore, was awarded $50,000 from the Maryland Technology Transfer Fund, the Maryland Technology Development Corp. announced. Using...

Sprint joins wireless number portability party.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Bobby White Sprint Wireless is jockeying for position.Earlier this week, the company abandoned its staunch opposition to a Federal Communications Commission mandate of cell-phone number portability. Sprint yesterday announced an...

Region's finance, realty companies invite Marylanders to investing 101.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Buying a home, saving for college, paying for seniors' medical bills and choosing a financial advisor can be difficult.But a coalition of Maryland financial organizations want to make it easier by offering...

U of MD seminar hosts Supreme Court victors.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Lawrence Hurley The Supreme Court's decisions to uphold affirmative action in higher education admissions and to strike down a law against homosexual sex should not be read as a sign that political alignments of the nine justices...

Unemployment contribution surcharge looms.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Daily Record Staff Business Writer Officials of the Maryland Office of Unemployment Insurance told a legislative task force this week that employers throughout the state will be hit in January with an unemployment contribution...

Planners see need for more transportation money in report.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Andrea Cecil For those who follow Baltimore's transportation woes, a study ranking the city 25th among the country's most congested urban areas spotlights the need to maintain, upgrade and expand existing transportation...

Baltimore buys rowhouses from nonprofit in revitalization effort.
October 2, 2003... Byline: Ezra Fieser Another piece of the 80-acre puzzle Baltimore is assembling in order to build a biotechnology park north of Johns Hopkins Hospital was finalized yesterday.The Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition Inc., a...

Montgomery Women's Bar Foundation awards two law school scholarships.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Montgomery Women's Bar Foundation awarded two law school scholarships at its opening dinner this week, where it honored county Administrative Judge Ann M. Harrington. The recipients were Jasmine...

Democrats threaten fourth filibuster of Pickering's nomination to 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports U.S. Judge Charles Pickering won a two-year battle yesterday to get his languishing nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and on to the full, GOP-controlled...

Community College of Baltimore County to establish work force training center.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Community College of Baltimore County said it will use a $3 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Maryland Center for Manufacturing Educational Excellence, developing...

Annapolis-based FTI Consulting opens office in London to launch its European practice.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Annapolis-based FTI Consulting Inc., a national provider of turnaround, bankruptcy and litigation-related consulting services, announced the opening of an office in London to launch its European practice. The...

Comcast employees and their families volunteer for a day in Md. schools and community centers.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports About 600 Comcast employee volunteers and their families are expected to participate tomorrow in the third annual Comcast Cares Day at elementary schools, community centers and parks across Maryland, joining...

BWI Business Partnership names Greene its new executive director.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The BWI Business Partnership Inc. named Linda Greene as its new executive director. Greene, a former director of communications for the Maryland Aviation Administration, was a vice president of the Airports...

Baltimore/Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce sponsors seminar on employee health insurance.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Baltimore/Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a seminar on Oct. 7 from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on the rising cost to employers of employee health insurance, at the Anne Arundel Community...

Timonium-based Advanced Education Systems LLC opens new office in Atlanta.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Advanced Education Systems LLC, of Timonium, a provider of comprehensive continuing education in the mortgage industry, opened an office in Atlanta to help meet the increasing demand for mortgage continuing...

Md. Court of Special Appeals rules verdicts on murder, conspiracy aren't inconsistent.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Lawrence Hurley A Baltimore youth, who was 16 when he helped murder two men because one of them had allegedly insulted his mother, has failed to convince the Court of Special Appeals to overturn his convictions.In October 2000,...

Baltimore Police Dept.'s evidence control unit still feeling effects of Hurricane Isabel.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Peter Geier The last of Isabel's water whirled out of the Baltimore Police Department's evidence control unit the ECU nearly two weeks ago, but its effects are still being felt in ways great and small:*Susan J. Schuder, chief of...

Md. Court of Appeals rules murder defendant should have testified at suppression hearing.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Peter Geier A defendant's silence in deliberately failing to testify as to his state of mind when he easily could have done so at a suppression hearing without incriminating himself invited the trial court's inference against him,...

Baltimore to host 2006 National Baptist Convention; tourism officials hope to attract others.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Ezra Fieser Booking the 2006 National Baptist Convention and its estimated $41 million in economic impact could be a stepping stone for more large-scale religious meetings, Baltimore's top tourism official said yesterday.The...

Md. stocks follow national markets and climb slightly.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Maryland stocks inched slightly upward for the week, following national markets. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 2.5 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.9 percent since last Friday's...

Baltimore City Court judge to try cases even though evidence compromised by hurricane damage.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Peter Geier Lynn McLain, who teaches evidence at the University of Baltimore School of Law, said issues raised by the potential loss of evidence bear less on evidence per se than on a defendant's due process rights."Should...

Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena gets new billboards.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Daily Record Staff Business Writer If you hang around downtown Baltimore after work tonight, you may get to see the panel advertising signs outside 1st Mariner Arena unveiled.The first five 31-by-46-foot billboards, subject of...

Maryland legislators to learn about bulk prescription buys.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Daily Record Staff Business Writer A multistate legislative group that champions the bulk purchasing of prescription drugs by private and public employer groups is scheduled to brief members of a Maryland House of Delegates...

Boras resigns from Md. Stadium Authority; Baltimore's Hippodrome theater almost finished.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Daily Record Staff Business Writer Robert M. Boras, who has overseen renovations of the Hippodrome theater in Baltimore, resigned from his post Oct. 1, the Maryland Stadium Authority said yesterday. Boras, who was hired in August...

On the Record with Tracy Gosson, executive director of Live Baltimore Home Center.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Nancy Kercheval Tracy Gosson has at her fingertips everything a renter or homebuyer needs to know before moving into the city. And she promotes the city with gusto as executive director of Live Baltimore Home Center, which recently...

Maryland's leading index drops 0.9 percent in July.
October 3, 2003... Byline: John Hopkins The RESI Maryland Leading Index declined in July by 0.9 percent to a value of 152.05, down from a revised June value of 153.48. The drop in the index is the first since February and follows four consecutive months of...

Maryland's telecom competitors struggle to wait out drop in industry spending.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Daily Record Staff Business Writer The shining stars of Maryland's budding photonics industry have dimmed.Two years ago economic development officials heralded Ciena Corp. and Corvis Corp. for kick-starting an optical networking...

Md.'s Health Education Resource Organization offers comprehensive services for homeless with AIDS.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Rhudy Although its reputation is solid in affected communities as a one-stop shop for people with HIV/AIDS, the Health Education Resource Organization or HERO, for short is one of the best-kept secrets in Maryland. ...

Commentary: Closing argument - swaying hearts and minds.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Mark Sandler Perhaps the anecdote is apocryphal, but when asked to list the three most important aspects of argument, Demosthenes answered, "Delivery, delivery, and delivery." [Corbett & Connors, Classical Rhetoric for the...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms judgment against Audi and its ad agency.
October 3, 2003... Byline: James B. Astrachan The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a very large judgment against the car-maker Audi and its ad agency because of their theft, and use in an ad, of eight words written by someone else. The...

Commentary: 20 years of building a community of grantmakers.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Betsy Nelson The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers celebrates its 20th year and you will have to forgive me if my pride is showing! I was not part of the group that originally formed ABAG, but as the first professional...

Commentary: All entrepreneurs need an exit plan.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Neil R. G. Young, CLU, ChFC If you own your own business, there is one inescapable fact: you won't own it forever. It is also true that if you have run your business well, it has become an entity onto itself, and there are...

Baltimore composer sells song to Warner Brothers for movie's television advertising campaign.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe After spending hundreds of thousands on a television advertising campaign that spanned dozens of channels, most people have heard about the movie "Matchstick Men," which stars Nicholas Cage as a con artist....

Casualty loss tax relief advice for victims of Hurricane Isabel.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Jim Wilhelm Hurricane Isabel left her mark throughout the mid-Atlantic, damaging homes, businesses and disrupting the lives of millions. Once the damage has been assessed, some careful recordkeeping performed now could produce...

President of Baltimore-based Triathlantic Assn. uses life experiences to prepare students for work.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Andrea Cecil Brad Jaeger stands at the front of the classroom, giving 25 kids at Overlea Senior High School a synopsis of his 15-year-old race management business.Some stare at the wall, others vigorously bite their nails, few seem...

Two developers vie for chance at 30-acre eclectic collection of buildings in Silver Springs.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Robyn Lamb The National Park Seminary Historic District, formerly an inn, a girl's school and a convalescent center for World War II soldiers, is about to be reinvented again. Two developers are vying for the chance to transform...

Commentary: Private medication purchases require public information.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Alan Lyles The form and content of a Medicare drug benefit are becoming less clear as the legislative work progresses, and an exploding federal deficit now makes the cost of even an incomplete benefit appear unaffordable. What...

Riverdale town officials work to approve plan for massive redevelopment initiative.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Ezra Fieser After years of planning, a strip of Route 1 in Prince George's County is in line for a massive redevelopment.The Riverdale Park Mixed-Use Town Center, originally identified in 1994, is set to be approved early next...

Commentary: Changes impact executive compensation programs.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Stephen Thaler, CLU Ongoing and intense press coverage of companies such as Enron and WorldCom, as well as of high profile individuals like Richard Grasso, former head of the New York Stock Exchange, and (locally) William Jews, CEO...

Federal Emergency Management Agency offers on-line information about natural disaster precautions.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Larry Fiorino As the East Coast of the United States braced for Hurricane Isabel's fury, many residents went looking for the most up-to-the-minute information. Several sites provide excellent weather reporting, but there are also...

Commentary: Culture plays critical role in Maryland economy.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Joe Nathanson The arrival of the John Waters-inspired Broadway hit musical "Hairspray" to a Baltimore stage was reason enough for a celebration. That was the thinking of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, which organized a...

Commentary: Good stock bets and debt help.
October 3, 2003... Byline: Julius Westheimer Early autumn notes from Wall Street and Main Street.Here, from Forbes magazine, are "momentum and value" stocks, also described as "consumer discretionary issues," suggested for their solid balance sheets, good...

Workshops on small town, rural design planned.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, the Maryland Citizen Planners Association and the Kent County Department of Planning and Zoning are hosting two free workshops on "A Primer for Small Town and Rural...

Phillips Seafood launching new line of fast-casual style restaurants.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Baltimore-based Phillips Seafood is launching Phillips Famous Seafood, a new line of fast-casual style restaurants, with a flagship location in the Fallsgrove Village Center in Rockville. The 60-seat facility...

Giant Food Wine Tasting event cancelled.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Giant Food Wine Tasting event, a benefit for the Children's Cancer Foundation scheduled for Oct. 11 at the Washington Hilton Hotel, has been canceled and will be rescheduled next spring, according to the...

MD Hispanic Business Conference 2003 to be held in Silver Spring.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports The Maryland Hispanic Business Conference 2003 will be held Oct. 9-10 at the Hilton Hotel in Silver Spring, featuring workshops on contracts, minority certification, international trade, labor issues, renting...

Rottman Creative Group receives two awards.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Rottman Creative Group LLC, of La Plata, a full-service graphic design agency, received two gold medals in the 2003 Creativity Annual Awards, a worldwide competition that showcases outstanding work in...

1999 Basignani Lorenzino, a Bordeaux blend, wins Md. Governor's Cup.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Kevin Atticks It was an early morning in late August when a distinguished panel of judges gathered to sample Maryland wines and find the best that the state's wineries have to offer. The 14th Annual Maryland Governor's Cup...

Maryland history on the move.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Nancy Kercheval The 10-foot-by-10-foot map weathered and brittle after decades of gracing the wall of the main floor of Baltimore Equitable Insurance told it all.It was a Sunday afternoon just over 99 years ago Feb. 7, 1904 to be...

Safeway stores conducting fundraising campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
October 4, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Safeway stores throughout the Baltimore region and nationwide are conducting a major fundraising campaign in October in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Customers may add a $1 contribution to...

Commentary: Privacy: Get over it - you don't have any.
October 6, 2003... Byline: The Daily Record Editorial Advisory Board In the novel 1984 Winston Smith was under constant surveillance by BIG BROTHER the government that ultimately removed his individuality and absorbed him into its machine. Smith had no right...

MD Legal Briefs October 6, 2003.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Staff and Wire Reports Small-claim filing easedA simplified process for filing a case in the District Court of Maryland's small-claims court took effect Oct 1. The filing form, accessible on the court's Web site...

Commentary: Govt. investigations can ruin lives of innocent people.
October 6, 2003... Byline: Irwin R. Kramer While we are usually flattered when people find us "interesting," we don't typically regard it as a compliment when those people work for the federal government. When filing our tax returns, we hope that some...