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3 Reasons to Start Your Holiday Shopping Now 09/15/2021 12:00am • Procrastinators, beware: You could pay dearly for last-minute holiday shopping this year. Sure, it's always smart to spread out the financial pain and start shopping ahead of the holidays, but this year, it may be wiser than usual. Here are three reasons: Supply Chain IssuesWhat does the supply cha No public threat after perplexing Anne Arundel Co. incident involving shattered police cruiser window 09/13/2021 01:22pm • Police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, say there is no public safety threat as they continue to investigate a perplexing incident Monday that may have involved a police cruiser window being shot out as officers looked into the report of a teen "shooting small critters" in the woods. In an updat How to Make Money on Etsy 09/13/2021 12:00am • Wendy Conklin didn't have grand plans to start an Etsy business when she joined the site in 2012. All the Texas resident wanted was to put her newfound upholstery skills to work and recoup the cost of a recent class she took. "I didn't know what would happen," Conklin says. What did happen was a qu How Safe Are Budget Tracking Apps? 09/13/2021 12:00am • Apps can make quick work of managing and tracking your spending by linking your financial accounts, categorizing your expenses and showing you exactly where your money is going. But are budgeting apps safe? In general, they are designed to protect your financial information, but you can't be blamed Data Doctors: Why 'tossing your cookies' is pointless 09/10/2021 04:01pm • Q: How does a digital fingerprinting differ from a cookie? A: The notion that you could be anonymous on the Internet was an attraction in the early days, but it’s quite obvious that those days are long gone. Virtually everything you do online is tracked and added to your "dossier" primarily Using Empathetic Practices May Ease Polarization in a Post-9/11 World 09/09/2021 12:00am • Much has changed in America since 9/11. Today, for example, pundits and scholars frequently bemoan the increasing polarization that is driving Americans apart. We are no longer disagreeing merely on policy issues. Instead, our partisan affiliations are morphing into broad identities that even inclu 7 Low-Risk Dividend Stocks for a Choppy Market 09/09/2021 12:00am • You can take these dividend stocks to the bank.If you're a glass-half-empty kind of investor, looking at the latest headlines gives you plenty to worry about. A disappointing August jobs report is bad enough, but when you put that next to continued indicators of high inflation and growing concerns a 4 Growth Stocks, 4 Value Stocks to Buy 09/09/2021 12:00am • Analysts recommend these growth and value stocks.For the first time in recent memory, value stocks are mostly keeping pace with growth stocks so far this year. Growth stocks have led the market charge for more than a decade, but value stock investors argue that elevated inflation levels and the pote Pandemic spikes tattoo business as clients yearn to mark the moment 09/08/2021 06:27pm • As more Americans resolve to change their lives after a tumultuous year and a half, many are choosing to get tattoos: D.C.-area tattoo-shop owners are reporting a boom in business, even though the pandemic all but shuttered other industries. Inside Lady Octopus, in Arlington, Virginia, artist Gil Glover Park Whole Foods first to get Just Walk Out pay 09/08/2021 06:12pm • Whole Foods owner Amazon is rolling out its cashier-less payment technology at its Whole Foods locations in D.C.'s Glover Park and Sherman Oaks, California. They are the first two Whole Foods stores to get the technology. The Glover Park Whole Foods closed more than four years ago and has remaine What to Know About the Buy Nothing Project 09/07/2021 12:00am • It sounds like the ultimate spending diet: buying nothing. If you haven't heard of the concept, it's spreading with Buy Nothing groups popping up throughout the world. Thank the Buy Nothing Project, a nonprofit organization with chapters now in 44 countries with more than 6,500 communities. So what Coronavirus and Pregnancy: What to Know 09/03/2021 12:00am • Since the coronavirus pandemic was first declared in March 2020, a lot of questions have swirled around whether or not the disease might be especially harmful to pregnant people or threaten the lives of their unborn children. A year and a half into the pandemic, expectant mothers, as well as people 7 Back-to-School Dividend Stocks 09/02/2021 12:00am • Cash in on these consumer stocks paying 2% or better.As millions of children return to the classroom, American parents are dealing with plenty of stresses -- both new ones related to the lingering coronavirus challenges and old ones including the grind of getting their kids to the bus stop on time. 5 IPO Stocks to Watch in September 09/02/2021 12:00am • The boom in initial public offerings that started in 2020 has accelerated in 2021, thanks in part to record stock prices. Traditional IPOs have raised $96.3 billion as of mid-August, up 155.3% compared with a year ago. There have been 277 IPOs so far in 2021, blowing past 2020's full-year total of 2 'Like a freight train': Maryland tornado damages cars, buildings 09/01/2021 11:20pm • "You ever seen 'Wizard of Oz?'" It looked just like that, said David Joseph, describing the tornado that touched down in Annapolis, Maryland, on Wednesday afternoon. It sounded "like a freight train," Joseph and co-worker Brian McLaughlin said. They were trying to close the bay doors when they