Business news reporter covering the regional economy and housing market, a roller-coaster of a beat. Keeper of the Sun's housing blog, baltimoresun.com/realestatewonk.

Grew up in Columbia, left Maryland to cover education in Iowa and then returned home in 1999 to work at The Baltimore Sun. Winner of multiple journalism awards for housing coverage from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Number crunching, all things housing and shedding light on complicated issues affecting people's lives.

Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake names new CEO 2/3/2012
Affordable-housing provider Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake said its new chief executive — who brings a construction and finance background — will come on board this month.

Some property owners receive revised assessments 2/2/2012
State agency says some corrected values are down — and some are up Ryan Carr's home was reassessed by the state in December, but that wasn't quite the final word.

Adventist Behavioral Health to close Crownsville campus 2/2/2012
Adventist Behavioral Health said it will close its residential treatment facilities and school in Crownsville later this year, moving the teen-agers it serves to locations in Rockville and in Cambridge on the Eastern Shore.

Facebook files to go public 2/1/2012
Baltimore's T. Rowe Price a significant investor in the social-networking site Facebook filed paperwork Wednesday to allow it to go public this spring, a deal being closely watched internationally — and especially at Baltimore's T. Rowe Price Group, which holds a stake of about $400 million in the social-networking behemoth through its mutual funds.

First Mariner loses nearly $4 million in fourth quarter 1/30/2012
First Mariner Bancorp said Monday that it lost almost $4 million during the three months ending Dec. 31, about the same as a year earlier after accounting for a one-time tax charge in the fourth quarter of 2010.