The day Ailish Murphy opened the doors for business at her technology consulting and placement firm in Independence was the day she found out she was pregnant with her first child. It wasn't the right ...

The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the ...

When Ailish M. Murphy founded MurTech Consulting in 2000, she could not have known that the events of Sept. 11 would send the economy into a recession. Not that she would have done much differently if ...