Government Contracts

Baltimore is wasting about $400,000 every month it does not install a new phone system, a lawyer for Comptroller Joan M. Pratt argued in court Thursday. But the mayor's lawyers argued that Pratt has no legal right to sue the city because she is a city...

More than two dozen new restaurants and retail stores will open next year at the international terminal at O'Hare International Airport, city officials announced today. The upgrades are part of a $26.2 million redevelopment of Terminal 5, the first...

More than 200 employees at the ITT Exelis Night Vision plant in Roanoke got layoff notices Thursday. In a statement, a company spokesman said 201 hourly employees are being laid off.  Earlier this month, the company said declining government contracts...

PLYMOUTH -- The Listenberger family, which has fed Plymouth for decades with cafes, hotel restaurants, Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, food trucks and a catering service, now reaches across the country with government contracts to make sure soldiers...

Johnstown Area Regional Industries helped local businesses sell more than $1.3 billion in goods and services to the federal government in 2010.  With a new series of informational workshops scheduled in Somerset County, the nonprofit economic development...

Almost two years have passed since the people of Carroll County's District 2 elected me to the office of County Commissioner. As an elected official, I believe it is my responsibility to keep the people I represent informed about what I've done —...

Several park projects got approval from the City Council this week, including the design of a new park and contracts for security enhancements at two other open spaces. The council approved site plans for the half-acre Maryland Avenue Park, which is in...

As the Baltimore comptroller's office was seeking bids for a multimillion-dollar upgrade of the city government's telephone system last year, the mayor's technology office was buying about $500,000 worth of equipment that could be used for the same kind...

Baltimore's Board of Estimates rejected Wednesday a $7.4 million contract with IBM for a new phone system that has been at the center of a City Hall turf war — a dispute that city officials said they would have to resolve before they could move...

Over the centuries, at the same time military might has been building borders, shaping national identities and protecting ways of life, it's also been building our wardrobes, shaping our silhouettes and taking fledgling brands to the front lines of...

A "super PAC" that has spent more than $35 million on behalf of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has accepted donations from federal contractors despite a 36-year-old ban against such companies making federal political expenditures. At least...

For Los Angeles to meet its legal obligations and provide for a more sustainable energy and water future, rates must go up. Soon. The City Council doesn't like to acknowledge that because it knows there are few more predictable ways to raise the ire of...