Please join us Monday, December 21, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for an event at Pratt Street Ale House in Downtown Baltimore. The event will be in the Lounge there and we hope to see you there for great conversation, food and drinks.
You can RSVP to the event [...]
A $2 million effort to map the likelihood of shore protection as sea level rises is summarized in a new article entitled “State and local governments plan for development of most land vulnerable to rising sea level along the U.S. Atlantic Coast.”
The maps divide coastal low lands into four [...]

Reform Baltimore County is a new blog sponsored by the Baltimore County Republican Party. Their first post is about Gordon Harden.
Related posts:Inappropriate political use of Baltimore County website?[...]
Silver Spring's new Civic Building (you know, the one with the windows) currently under construction at Ellsworth and Fenton shouldn't be named after anyone at all, say the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board. The' [...]
If you haven't noticed, on the right hand side of this page near the top you can now click on any one of the Shows we have produced from the very beginning. The most recent Show will be on the far left and older Shows' [...] A water main break in the 3400 block of Dundalk Avenue has resulted in the northbound lanes of that street being closed. MARC trains have been experiencing problems this morning on both the Brunswick and Penn lines, including a train that broke down in the B&P tunnel that had [...]

Another unfortunate retail fail to report - the Mayorga Coffee shop in South Silver Spring has announced that it will close at the end of the year. This was the first retail location for Mayorga, which now has a number of locations, most notably at [...]
A friend of mine sent me this cartoon. It made me think of some of the commenters on Tales of Two Cities. [...] 

(Harford County, MD: December 9, 2009) The Harford County Joint Investigative Task Force consisting of members from the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barracks and the Harford County Sheriff’s Office arrested William Preston Grace Jr., age 22, of Port Deposit, MD in connection with several armed robberies and thefts that [...]
Normally I add this to my monoblogue Accountability Project page once it’s clear that no Special Sessions would be called to change the rankings. This post will similarly be added to the page upon publication. But it’s time to bestow honors and point out those who are shortchanging the state [...]

LeRoy Whiteley of Marylanders for Fair Property Taxation will be guest speaker at the December 14 meeting of the Mid-Shore Chapter of Americans for Prosperity. Whiteley will discuss MFPT’s proposed legislation to bring about property tax reform through changes in the assessment and appeal process, [...]

Ocean City Condos:
WOW! What a drastic improvement from only a year ago! Since following the Ocean City MD market over the last couple of months I am safe to say that the “Ocean City condo market has hit bottom”. Over 65% new contracts from a year ago goes [...]

Eagle Peak Rock and Paving created and saved 32 jobs thanks to an $8 million federal stimulus contract to repair Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park.
But you won’t find that on Recovery.gov, the government’s Web site for tracking stimulus money.
You also won’t find the eight employees [...]



The following letter was sent by Tony Passaro of the Bel Air Tea Party Patriots:
AMERICANS YOU ARE BEING CALLED On TO AGAIN TO MAKE A STAND………
We are in the final days of the National Health Care Reform Debate. The Senate is debating Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill [...]
Police in Howard County have apprehended a fleeing armed robber, with customers and a passerby in chase, following a robbery of Bank of America in the 7300 block of Assateague Drive in Jessup today.
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In response to what some opponents see as a Congress that doesn’t represent their interests, State Legislators are looking to the nearly forgotten American political tradition of nullification as a way to reject any potential national health care program that may be coming from Washington. [...]
The L.A. Times reports:
In 2008, Obama raked in more donations from the health sector than John McCain and the rest of the Republican field combined. Drug makers gave Obama $3.58 for every dollar they gave McCain. Pfizer gave to Obama at a 4-1 rate, as did the hospital and [...]Rolling Stone’s author Matt Taibbi wrote an article about Goldman Sachs titled, “The Great American Bubble Machine“, he writes how they are about to engineer the next great bubble — the trillion dollar carbon cap and credit market.
To my surprise, Enron, one of the most corrupt gangsters besides [...]
From the mouth of the morally impaired:
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D.-Md.) said yesterday it would be “morally wrong” for members of Congress to vote against the health care bill.
[...]By Gregory Kane, Washington Examiner
This story comes to us from Broward County, Fla. Teah Wimberly, 16, is charged with murdering Amanda Coll, a friend and classmate at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale. Both girls were 15 at the time of the shooting.
[...]GOP Leader: "It's time to get the government out of the bailout business and stop the reckless spending here in Washington"
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /Standard Newswire/ -- House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced he would extend the federal financial bailout program -- [...]
Baltimore's school board approved the opening of a new charter school at its meeting last night, despite comments by the public questioning whether there should be a limit to the number of charters allowed in the city. After last night's approval, the city has 28 charter schools.
The Tunbridge Public Charter school, [...]

