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Americans still love spending on their homes

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There’s no place like home – especially for Americans these days.



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Hampton Inn coming to site near Johns Hopkins...

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A Southern Maryland developer plans to build a 115-room hotel near the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus, with plans to construct a second hotel in the future nearby. The Cherry Cove Group, a Lexington Park-based developer and property manager, hopes to break ground shortly after Labor Day on a Hampton Inn and Suites on a 2.5-acre site at 6571 Eastern Ave. in East Baltimore, just blocks away from the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Jim Gosnell, the senior vice president of development for Cherry…

Walmart is selling deep-fried Twinkies

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Forget the county fair: Walmart is now selling deep-fried Twinkies.



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Thousands sign petition to establish an affordable...

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More than 18,000 signatures have been obtained by a group of nonprofits and housing advocates to place an initiative on the Nov. 8 General Election ballot to create a trust fund for affordable housing in Baltimore. The ballot initiative was started by the nonprofit Housing For All Baltimore. It would be an amendment to the Baltimore City Charter because it would require funding from the city’s general fund and other sources to establish the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Private funding would also…

Hostess launches 'Deep Fried Twinkies' as first...

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The deep-fried Twinkie is jumping from the state fair to the home freezer.



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Here are the five largest advertising agencies in...

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Planit remains the No. 1 largest advertising agency in Greater Baltimore, as ranked by employees. Earlier this year, the agency moved its 101 full-time local staff from its 15,000-square-foot office at 500 E. Pratt St. to the 27,000-square-foot former King Syrup facility at 1414 Key Highway. Following Planit is GKV with 92 full-time local staff. Below, you can see the top five advertising agencies that made this year’s List. Subscribers can view the full List here. 5. R2integrated Address: 400…

Guest column: Greater Baltimore job growth,...

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Summer is in full swing, and the Baltimore office market is heating up. A cultural shift led by millennials is revitalizing downtown into a desirable live/work/play destination, replacing vacant and aging office product with luxury multi-family units. Many core suburban submarkets such as Columbia, Maple Lawn, White Marsh, and the I-83 Corridor are seeing vacancy rates in the single digits, down from as high as 15 percent after the recession of 2008-2009. This improvement in fundamentals is spurring…

Global business to China: Scrap new cyber rules

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China’s plan to tighten its grip on the internet is upsetting companies around the world.



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Ad blockers strike back against Facebook

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It’s Facebook versus the ad blockers, round two.



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8 things you need to know this morning

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TGIF! Is everyone as tired as I am from staying up late all week to watch the Olympics? I’m hoping to catch up on some sleep so I can do it all again next week. In case you missed it last night, Michael Phelps did it again with a commanding performance in the 200 IM. He captured his fourth gold medal and beat longtime rival and friend Ryan Lochte. [Baltimore Sun] American gymnast Simone Biles captured the gold in the women’s gymnastics all-around. Teammate Aly Raisman won the silver. [ESPN] Here's…