Free Enterprise

The free-enterprise method of marketing real estate in the United States works well for everyone involved: buyers, sellers and brokers.Sometimes it takes a unique experience to really appreciate the marketing system we enjoy. That's the view of Realtor Barbara Hill, an owner-partner in an active brokerage business.She recently had such an experience. It involved working with a knowledge-thirsty, young entrepreneur from a republic of what was the Soviet Union.Zetta Iszhanove, a 32-year-old university professor from the city of Alma-Ata in the Republic of Kazakhstan, spent most of a two-week period with Ms. Hill, observing her real estate brokerage operation.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:  Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the Union - to improve it is the task of us all.”  Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report.  After a decade...

A bill that would limit the number of days that roadside vendors could operate annually outside Harford's three municipalities appears to be headed for a legislative death.The bill's sponsor, County Councilman Robert S. Wagner, R-District E, said last week that so many amendments have been attached to the bill that he probably will remove it from full council consideration at Tuesday night's meeting."I've been told there are already seven pages of amendments," he said. "If that's the case, I'll pull it."

I have followed with interest The Sun's recent coverage of the election, but one key fact has been underemphasized in your reporting. Please remind your readers that President Barack Obama has had four years to dig us out of the economic slump and has not done so. In fact, President Obama's "spend now, pay later" policies have worsened the recession. Mr. Obama has brought us ever-increasing debt and sky-high unemployment. Mitt Romney has spent his life in business. Mr. Romney understands that the road to recovery is to unleash the spirit of American free enterprise.

HAVANA -- The black canvas shoes in the state ration store are stacked by the hundreds next to the boxy canvas bras. The shoes are a little sticky from the glue used to make them and are awkwardly shaped, like ovals instead of feet. Juan David Tapia ++ and Yacir Barrero think they're completely uncool.The two kids, whose parents each make salaries of less than $7 a month, don't want what the government store offers."Do you have Nikes?" Juan asks a foreigner walking past. "Can you give them to us?"

America is at its best when our guiding principles of free enterprise and giving people a helping hand work together. The free enterprise system created our national wealth and employment opportunities. However, free enterprise also eliminated 3 million American jobs in the 2000s while creating 2.4 million new jobs overseas. Meanwhile, Apple set new records for "legal" tax evasion. The free enterprise system is focused on creating jobs for minimum wages, not necessarily in the U.S. That implies that the best opportunities for creating jobs are in the public sector.

Westminster High School marketing students walked away with 30 awards and two state Distributive Educational Clubs of America (DECA) offices recently at the annual Maryland State DECA Career Development Conference in Hagerstown.Sean Javins was elected state DECA vice president, and Sarah Brumfitt was chosen state reporter for the 1998-1999 school year.Four students will go to the National DECA Career Development Conference from April 24 to 29 in Denver.They are Sean Javins in the vehicles and petroleum marketing series event, Scott Deans in retail merchandising management level series event, Courtney Smith in retail merchandising associate level series event and Sarah Brumfitt in intense state office leadership development workshop.

Towson U. students receive free-enterprise honors Three Towson University students - two of whom are from Anne Arundel County - received first runner-up honors at the USA Northeast Regional Students in Free Enterprise competition April 10 in Philadelphia. David Shank of Linthicum, Pasquale Carannante of Pasadena and Katie Weishaar of Malvern, Pa., presented the marketing plan "The Diversity of International Markets." This is the first time in three years that Towson University has participated in the competition.

We look for free enterprise to create our national wealth and employment opportunities. However, free enterprise eliminated 3 million jobs in the 2000's while creating 2.4 million jobs overseas. Those lost jobs are not coming back. Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree that the today's principal economic problem is jobs and that the nation's infrastructure needs repair. Repairing a leaking roof is not a partisan issue. The nation's infrastructure is in crisis, and we need action now to rebuild and maintain the nation's port, road, bridge, water, sewage treatment, rail, and air systems.

I have followed with interest The Sun's recent coverage of the election, but one key fact has been underemphasized in your reporting. Please remind your readers that President Barack Obama has had four years to dig us out of the economic slump and has not done so. In fact, President Obama's "spend now, pay later" policies have worsened the recession. Mr. Obama has brought us ever-increasing debt and sky-high unemployment. Mitt Romney has spent his life in business. Mr. Romney understands that the road to recovery is to unleash the spirit of American free enterprise.

WEATHER The National Weather Service is calling for Wednesday to be cloudy, with a high near 83 and a 70 percent chance of precipitation. Wednesday night is expected to be cloudy, with a low around 66 and a 60 percent chance of precipitation. TRAFFIC Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues as you plan your commute. FROM LAST NIGHT Kamenetz blames Recher for weekend Towson melee : Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz blamed the Recher Theatre on Tuesday for a weekend event that drew unruly crowds to downtown Towson, where several police officers were injured and one man was shot.

We look for free enterprise to create our national wealth and employment opportunities. However, free enterprise eliminated 3 million jobs in the 2000's while creating 2.4 million jobs overseas. Those lost jobs are not coming back. Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney agree that the today's principal economic problem is jobs and that the nation's infrastructure needs repair. Repairing a leaking roof is not a partisan issue. The nation's infrastructure is in crisis, and we need action now to rebuild and maintain the nation's port, road, bridge, water, sewage treatment, rail, and air systems.

America is at its best when our guiding principles of free enterprise and giving people a helping hand work together. The free enterprise system created our national wealth and employment opportunities. However, free enterprise also eliminated 3 million American jobs in the 2000s while creating 2.4 million new jobs overseas. Meanwhile, Apple set new records for "legal" tax evasion. The free enterprise system is focused on creating jobs for minimum wages, not necessarily in the U.S. That implies that the best opportunities for creating jobs are in the public sector.

Bringing back Free Fall Baltimore for a second year, the city and about 85 arts groups are presenting more than 200 free programs throughout October. "You've got everything from the Baltimore Opera to the Kids on the Hill - it's everywhere," says Bill Gilmore, executive director of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, which is coordinating the monthlong celebration of cultural and economic egalitarianism.

BOULDER, Mont. - I am writing this on my laptop, sitting at a table 85 feet below the ground in the Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine, chatting with Ted Kaddy and Bob Domgard, a couple of fellows who have driven 40 miles in the hope of improving their health by breathing radon gas. Yes, that radon gas - the stuff that hardware stores sell detectors for and that the Environmental Protection Agency says is associated with 15,000 to 22,000 deaths annually....

Towson U. students receive free-enterprise honors Three Towson University students - two of whom are from Anne Arundel County - received first runner-up honors at the USA Northeast Regional Students in Free Enterprise competition April 10 in Philadelphia. David Shank of Linthicum, Pasquale Carannante of Pasadena and Katie Weishaar of Malvern, Pa., presented the marketing plan "The Diversity of International Markets." This is the first time in three years that Towson University has participated in the competition.

BOULDER, Mont. - I am writing this on my laptop, sitting at a table 85 feet below the ground in the Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine, chatting with Ted Kaddy and Bob Domgard, a couple of fellows who have driven 40 miles in the hope of improving their health by breathing radon gas. Yes, that radon gas - the stuff that hardware stores sell detectors for and that the Environmental Protection Agency says is associated with 15,000 to 22,000 deaths annually....

CONCORD, N.H. -- Encouraged by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's unwillingness to ask them to stop, organizers of the draft-Cuomo drive here released television and radio ads yesterday urging New Hampshire voters to write in his name in next Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary.In the television ad, the New York governor is seen and heard on the left side of a split screen speaking about the recession, as his name is slowly printed, white on black for a blackboard effect, on the right side. The radio ad features a longer segment of the same remarks.

CHARLES P. McCormick was a revolutionary in a business suit.When he took over the family's Baltimore spice and extract business in 1932, he decided to treat employees as if they were partners. Colleagues thought he was out of his mind. Standard management practice of the day was to view workers as machines -- to be run until they broke down.At the height of the Depression, C. P. McCormick startled the local business community. While others were cutting pay and laying off employees, he handed workers a 10 percent raise and shortened the work week from 56 to 46 hours.

Westminster High School marketing students walked away with 30 awards and two state Distributive Educational Clubs of America (DECA) offices recently at the annual Maryland State DECA Career Development Conference in Hagerstown.Sean Javins was elected state DECA vice president, and Sarah Brumfitt was chosen state reporter for the 1998-1999 school year.Four students will go to the National DECA Career Development Conference from April 24 to 29 in Denver.They are Sean Javins in the vehicles and petroleum marketing series event, Scott Deans in retail merchandising management level series event, Courtney Smith in retail merchandising associate level series event and Sarah Brumfitt in intense state office leadership development workshop.