This week in The TentacleThursday, March 27, 2008
Dems Campaign Won’t End In Desired Result
Chris Cavey
A week or so ago, while chatting up
Consequences of Irresponsibility
Joan McIntyre
Before it's too late and you and I are left holding the entire bag, do something for me, please. Start screaming; make it so loud that the local, state and federal governments finally hear you.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
As April 7, the final day of the 2008 Maryland General Assembly session, looms on the horizon, a great deal of conversation is focused on the fate of many of the “social initiatives” of the administration of Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
The outlook for the administration isn’t bright. The second floor of the State House has failed to get its message out on why we need such broad sweeping social change.
The choir gets it. The congregation is bewildered.
Of course, for those who are pre-occupied with studying the big-picture political theory of Governor O’Malley’s approach to governance, it is not the two weeks remaining that fascinate us. The curiosity is what will be the fate of the next two years of the O’Malley Administration.
There’s a new political paradigm in town and – by all accounts – the O’Malley Administration appears to be the last to know.
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Part of the answer is that the days of a lack of accountability for populist-liberals are gone. Sure, to be certain, the sycophant press that exonerated past liberal regimes is still in place, but its creditability is increasingly questioned and its effectiveness is waning.
The advent of the Internet-based information dissemination age has led to a blogosphere with increasing clout. And not to be overlooked is the fact that – in today’s world – constituents are kept abreast of current events as quickly as they can read their emails.
Add to this a heightened status of other newspapers in the state whose readership is rising as a result of its more credible approach to news reporting.
Simply put, a well-informed constituency is demanding a level of accountability for which the old populist leadership paradigm has not adjusted.
People who know the high level of Governor O’Malley’s technologically proficiency have been left totally bewildered at this administration’s inability to (technologically) get out its message.
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Read the entire column here: Preaching to the Choir
(Author’s note: As an aside… In one example close to home; after being on the information distribution list for the previous two or three administrations – and after the current administration has been in office for over a year, all requests by this writer to be placed on the current press secretary’s e-mail distribution list have been ignored.)
Tom McLaughlin
The people in Ocean Pines are so old! That’s what I discovered when I returned to
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Roy Meachum
If you still wonder what the Psalm meant by "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the world," you obviously didn't visit Walkersville's Calvary Assembly of God church this Easter weekend.
Farrell Keough
Recent articles on the Transportation Planning Board for the National Capital Region studies indicate that solutions to our road congestion are still very much in limbo. Ideas like Private Toll Roads, (HOT Lanes and such) may not offer the solutions people were hoping to see.
Monday, March 24, 2008
General Assembly Journal 2008 – Volume 5
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Crossing Over
Okay, I’m not talking about that show where they talk to dead people. This is Cross Over Week, the constitutional deadline for bill passage in the House and Senate so bills can “cross over” to the other chamber by Sine Die.
The Dilution of our Citizenship and Branding of America
Steven R. Berryman
Membership has its rewards! Just ask major credit card providers. Citizenship in
Friday, March 21, 2008
Roy Meachum
The bulls generally linger out of sight. Wall Street bears lord it over the markets these days, especially for the Bear Stearns kind of traders, as you know.
Steven R. Berryman
The media fanfare trumpeted the coming of candidate Barack Obama’s urgent speech on race relations. Surely he could turn the audacious comments of his own Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright to make political hay, or at least defray the intense criticism of him and mitigate the close connection.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Must be Something in the Water
Edward Lulie III
March Madness doesn’t mean taxpayers getting into a fevered frenzy over the coming of April 15th and tax time…well not yet anyway. It means a nationwide obsession with college basketball and the NCAA tournament that starts today with 64 teams and eventually winds down to the final four, and then the championship game.
Tony Soltero
When the Bolsheviks overthrew Czar Nicholas II and, after a civil war, established the
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On Monday, New York Gov. Eliot “Mr. Clean” Spitzer’s resignation took affect. To be sure, the country has been in a deep funk ever since the fall 2006 elections, but the last 10 days was not good for the weak-kneed political observer.
Tom McLaughlin
Hanging around a redneck bar gives one a certain window on the economy. I have spoken to painters, dry wallers, contractors, roofers and others. I discovered that the ones who have done quality work in the past and have a good reputation have more business than they can handle.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Roy Meachum
Farmers once took as an article of their agricultural faith that dogs and cats should not be permitted in the house but left to hassle the outdoors cats and other varmints.
Farrell Keough
My computer has been trashed; I allowed someone else to use it and a program was downloaded that hacked my system. For me, this is a painful process as I use my computer regularly to communicate with folks, look up information, post my viewpoints on issues, etc. But, it also gave me an opportunity to view some of the issues of illegal immigration in a new light.
Nick Diaz
“Make sure you take Algebra II!” So goes the typical admonishment by teachers, counselors, parents, directed at middle-school students in the act of planning their future high school program.
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