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Advertising Without a Plan is a Waste of Money
Business

Advertising Without a Plan is a Waste of Money

Advertisements are everywhere – on television, the radio, social media, newspapers, telephone directories, bill boards, taxi cabs, buses, ink pens, hot air balloons, and annoyingly on monitors at the gas station. Advertisements are inescapable. Big […]

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland - At a rally Thursday on the campus following two days of turmoil over the football program, members of the University of Maryland Student Government Association ask for a minute of silence in memory of Jordan McNair. (Albane Guichard/Capital News Service)
Sports

Amidst Turmoil UMD Students Support Football Team

by ZACK SELBY Capital News Service COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – A tumultuous two days of statewide outrage directed at the University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ handling of the probe into football player Jordan […]

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot. (Photo courtesy of the office of the Comptroller of Maryland.)
Politics

Candidates in Comptroller Race Portray a Great Chasm

by Howard R. Fletcher Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — If it were a horse race, the challenger would be considered a longshot. Nevertheless, in a contest for the Maryland comptroller’s seat, a little-known Republican […]

Preston Harrison, of the 300 block of Laurel Avenue, Laurel, Maryland (Photo provided by HCPD)
News

Laurel Man Given Five Years for Carjacking an Uber

by Office of the State’s Attorney for Howard County A 29-year old Laurel man convicted of carjacking an Uber driver at a motel parking lot, earlier this year, has been sentenced to five years in […]