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As the county executive of Prince George, Maryland, Parris Glendening has created a number of enemies due mainly to his nontraditional kind of politics. He has been criticized for his budget policies and for his leadership style. He plans to run for governor in 1994.

Baltimore City, MD, gets more state aid than Montgomery County although it has a lower population. Since state funds are essential to Montgomery's economic growth, greater political involvement by Montgomery residents must be undertaken to insure equitable distribution of state aid.

Miller's Washington DC restaurant, the Red Sage, is a $3.5 million venture. Miller studied under Alice Waters and has had several successes in his southwestern restaurants. The Red Sage is western, and Miller uses fresh ingredients and native spices and herbs., SPORTING A BEARD AND BLUE JEANS, MARK Miller stands at the corner of 14th and F streets NW, his wispy red hair dancing in the blustering March air. Miller vaguely [...]

Marwood is one of most elegant and valuable properties in the exclusive Potomac region. Gore is trying to save the estate by subdividing the land owned by the family, which has squandered its fortune., LOUISE GORE WAS A TEENAGER WHEN SHE REALIZED THAT SHE WASN'T LIKE YOU OR ME. She was rich, the daughter of a Depression-era real estate tycoon, but her station in [...]

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MARRIOTT BILL MARRIOTT SWALLOWED HARD AND TRIED TO IGNORE THE pounding in his chest. [unkeyable] It was October 2, 1989, a cold, rainy Monday, and [...]

THE OTHER SHOE HAS FINALLY DROPPED in Montgomery County just ask County Executive Sid Kramer: the footprints are all over his posterior. Three years ago, when a wave of slow-growth [...]

POISON PROFITS WAR'S MOST BITTER ODORS - THE smell of death and cordite - fouled the night as the marines of the 23rd Regiment, Second Division moved up to the [...]

The Mercedes sedan edged up Montello Avenue and came to a stop in front of a row of seedy two-story apartment houses. Two pale-faced strangers climbed out and began to [...]

BACK IN THE EARLY 1980S, WHEN he controlled a $1.4 billion financial empire, Tom Billman wanted more than anything to see his face on a wall, specifically a wall at [...]

How Maryland's governor uses his fat-cat friends to grease the wheels of government THEN WILLIAM DONald Schaefer replaced wimpy Harry Hughes as the governor of Maryland, not even his harshest [...]

FOUL PLAY CLEANING UP MARYLAND'S SCANDAL-PLAGUED ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT IS JUST ANOTHER DIRTY JOB FOR LEW PERKINS LEW PERKINS LEANED OVER IN HIS CHAIR, PLANTED HIS BIG FOREARMS on the table [...]

THE BOTTOM LINE ON BARRY What it really cost to bust the mayor MARION BARRY'S ARREST AT THE Vista Hotel in January was, as the cops say, a cheap bust. [...]

TONY CICORIA Cozy dealings with developers put him center stage - and brought the law out of the wings ANTHONY CICORIA ONCE SEEMED TO have it made in Prince George's [...]

THIS FALL, POLITICAL EARTHQUAKES rumbled through the District of Columbia and Maryland, and rescue workers are still searching for the bodies. Perhaps Robert Johnson, the president of Black Entertainment Television, [...]

At the Boca Raton Resort and Club on Florida's Gold Coast, the air is languid and balmy. This is the tail end of the hurricane season, and the resort is [...]

General Motors Corp. tried to change the image of its stodgy sedans with the slogan: 'This is not your father's Oldsmobile.' During the tech stock boom and all of the [...]

Like most other Americans, I awoke on that awful Tuesday two weeks ago and witnessed the tragic scenes on television. The two WordTrade Center towers in New York were engulfed [...]

Whatever the ultimate outcome of Tuesday's devastating terrorist attack, there is a palpable sense in its wake that America has been permanently changed. For more than 10 years, the nation [...]

I knew we were saved as soon as Kmart Corp. reintroduced the BlueLight Special. The budget retailer brought back the promotional gimmick last April, and the memories immediately came flooding [...]

What we have is a triple witching. No other explanation exists. The current economic malaise, an unusual anniversary last week and this God-awful summer heat apparently have caused a strong [...]

I knew we were saved as soon as Krnart reintroduced the 'BlueLight Special.' The budget retailer brought back the promotional gimmick last April, and the memories immediately came flooding back. [...]

She was once the 'Money Honey.' But good Lord! The names angry investors are calling CNBC newscaster Maria Bartiromo these days in the chat rooms of Yahoo! Would you believe [...]

There was a time when Spam was nothing more than a glutinous luncheon meat. An amalgam of meat byproducts of uncertain origin, it nourished troops during World War II and [...]

Even with the stock market in the tank for months and the economy grinding to a halt, consumers didn't seem to be getting the message. In fact, consumer spending was [...]

E. Stanley O'Neal Age: 49 President, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.'s private-client group in New York Power play: When Mr. O'Neal speaks, the brokerage industry listens -- and it had [...]

Who's laughing now? It was only about a year ago--although it hardly seems so--that the Nasdaq Composite Index had crossed the 5,000 threshold, and the future seemed filled with unlimited [...]

When is an investment adviser not an investment adviser? When he publishes on the Internet, said Tokyo Joe. Wrong, said the judge. In a settlement last week, the Securities and [...]

The Bush administration has been working overtime to convince the public and lawmakers on Capitol Hill that its $1.6 trillion tax cut will help spur the flagging economy. Many economists, [...]

Randy Hecht, chairman and CEO of RS Investment Management, attended a luncheon in San Francisco for a few financial journalists from Barron's, BusinessWeek, the San Francisco Chronicle and InvestmentNews last [...]

You know the old story. Two campers are out in the woods when they see a bear off in the distance charging toward them. One camper starts to panic while [...]

You hear this investment advice often enough: Invest for the long term. But does anybody really believe it? No, judging by the wild swings in the stock market of late. [...]

Consumers ... you gotta love 'em. I mean real consumers, the conspicuously wealthy. Since consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of all economic activity economists put great stock in gauging [...]

This has been a cruel year for accounting firms. With the rise of the New Economy and the volatile stock market, companies are facing more pressure than ever to generate [...]

The market's up, the market's down. The economy is new, the economy is old. CNN, CNBC, CNNfn, MSNBC ... Wall Street, Main Street, upside, downside, all around the town ... [...]

The stock market is going haywire. Technology is sweeping the workplace. Industries are converging[ldots]or splitting up. The economy is going global. If one thing is constant in this era of [...]

When Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan speaks, the world listens. Over the past 30 years, few individuals have had as much impact on the U.S. and global economies. Given last [...]

The wildly gyrating stock market and the seemingly endless economic boom have everyone from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to casual day traders scratching their heads. Everyone is trying, [...]

Has anyone figured out the Nasdaq yet? Shares of technology companies soared last week, setting records for three straight days before closing Friday, the electronic market's busiest day in history, [...]

With this issue, InvestmentNews ushers in more than the year 2000. We've made some important improvements to our publication and substantially increased our newsgathering resources. The New Year also marks [...]

Christina vamps like a burlesque stripper. Britney's gone from school girl to slut. Pink is punk. Many of music's reigning divas are partying like it's 1999, even though the world […]

BOY CRAZY The Washington Times called it `the Great Summer Sex Scandal.' But when all was said and done, the paper simply went EARLY IN THE MORNING OF FEBRUARY 28, [...]

Fred Joseph A coffee break with the lawyer who got Nurse Jane Bolding off the hook THE TELEPHONE IN FRED JOSEPH'S law office rang at 11:00 A.M. on March 20, [...]

Lanny Davis MOST POLITICIANS ARE VEXED BY VERBS, but Lanny Davis is haunted by adjectives. They trail after him like a string of tin cans tied to a dog's tail. [...]

PROFILES IN POWER Consensus decision making is all the rage. But when it comes to shaping a corporation, it's still hard to beat raw management power. POWER. EVERYONE wants it. [...]

Steuart Petroleum, Washington's largest independent petroleum company has taken action to insure its position in the changing petroleum market. It has made acquisitions both in the heating oil market and in service stations. And it has changed its product mix to match consumer demand, and added new products.