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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Hillary's rating falls in two key states | TheHill

Hillary's rating falls in two key states | TheHill

News from The Hill: Hillary Clinton's favorability rating falls in two key states

By Jonathan Easley

Hillary Clinton’s favorability ratings have plunged in two key battleground states that will be critical to determining the 2016 presidential election, a new poll finds.

In addition, about half the voters in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania say they don’t trust the former Secretary of State. Read more here.

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 According to a Quinnipiac University survey released on Tuesday, 50 percent of voters in Florida say Clinton is not honest or trustworthy, compared to 41 percent who say she is. Clinton’s favorability rating in the Sunshine State has shrunk from 53 percent positive and 39 percent negative last month, to 49 percent positive and 46 percent negative this month. 

 In Pennsylvania, 49 percent of voters say they don’t trust Clinton, against 44 percent who say that they do. Clinton’s favorability rating in the Keystone State plummeted from a 55 percent-38 percent split in February, to 48 percent positive and 47 percent negative in March."

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Monday, March 30, 2015

Amanda Thatcher: Margaret Thatcher's granddaughter reads at funeral





Published on Apr 17, 2013
Lady Thatcher's 19-year-old granddaughter Amanda Thatcher has given a reading at her funeral at St Paul's Cathedral. The young Thatcher looked composed as she read a lesson from the Bible to the congregation, watched by millions on television. Her reading called for the righteous to put 'on the whole armour of God" and that her grandmother may be able to stand against the 'wiles of the devil'. Report by Sophie Foster. 
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Friday, March 27, 2015

Police officer shot in Roxbury - Metro - The Boston Globe

Police officer shot in Roxbury - Metro - The Boston Globe:

"By Jeremy C. Fox, Melissa Hanson and Sean P. MurphyGLOBE CORRESPONDENTS AND GLOBE STAFF  MARCH 27, 2015"

A Boston police officer credited with helping to save the life of a Transit officer who was wounded in a shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers in Watertown was shot in the face Friday night in a confrontation in Roxbury that left a suspect dead and an innocent bystander injured.

John Moynihan, 34, was in critical condition at Boston Medical Center late Friday after a gang unit stop turned violent, and Commissioner William B. Evans said he was “fighting for his life.”

Moynihan had assisted Transit police officer Richard H. Donohue Jr, who was shot and bleeding to death when police tried to apprehend Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in April of 2013, said Lieutenant Michael P. McCarthy of Boston police.


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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Maryland State Police Line of Duty Death: On March 25, 1998, Trooper Raymond Armstead


Maryland State Police Line of Duty Death: On March 25, 1998, Trooper Raymond Armstead, 27 years old and a 14 month veteran of the Maryland State Police died in a car crash while on duty. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/maryland-state-police-line-of-duty.html

On March 25, 1998, Trooper Raymond Armstead, 27 years old and a 14 month veteran of the Maryland State Police was operating his patrol vehicle northbound on I-295, south of Powder Mill Road in Prince George's County when he observed someone on the shoulder of the road waving their arms for assistance.

Realizing there had been an accident, Trooper Armstead attempted to cross the lanes of traffic to assist the stranded motorists. As Trooper Armstead focused on the shoulder activity, the traffic ahead of him stopped. Trooper Armstead's patrol car collided with a van that was stopped in front of him causing him to become trapped in his vehicle for approximately 30 minutes. Once extracted, Trooper Armstead was flown to the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore where he was pronounced dead shortly before 3:00 pm
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Maryland State Police Line of Duty Death: On March 25, 1998, Trooper Raymond Armstead


Maryland State Police Line of Duty Death: On March 25, 1998, Trooper Raymond Armstead, 27 years old and a 14 month veteran of the Maryland State Police died in a car crash while on duty. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/maryland-state-police-line-of-duty.html

On March 25, 1998, Trooper Raymond Armstead, 27 years old and a 14 month veteran of the Maryland State Police was operating his patrol vehicle northbound on I-295, south of Powder Mill Road in Prince George's County when he observed someone on the shoulder of the road waving their arms for assistance.

Realizing there had been an accident, Trooper Armstead attempted to cross the lanes of traffic to assist the stranded motorists. As Trooper Armstead focused on the shoulder activity, the traffic ahead of him stopped. Trooper Armstead's patrol car collided with a van that was stopped in front of him causing him to become trapped in his vehicle for approximately 30 minutes. Once extracted, Trooper Armstead was flown to the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore where he was pronounced dead shortly before 3:00 pm
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17 Surprising Reasons You're Stressed Out

17 Surprising Reasons You're Stressed Out: "By Amanda MacMillan

You're probably all too aware of the major sources of stress in your life -- money, your terrible commute, the construction workers who start jackhammering at 5 a.m. But stress and anxiety don't have to just come from obvious or even negative sources. "There are plenty of chronic strains and low-grade challenges that don't necessarily overwhelm you in the moment, but almost take more of a toll in the long run," says Scott Schieman, Ph.D., professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. These are some of unexpected reasons why you might feel anxious or agitated. By recognizing them for what they are, says Schieman, you can better prepare to cope." ...  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/21/surprising-stress-causes_n_6849250.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

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Monday, March 23, 2015

Obituary for Firefighter EMS provider Robin Flater Chenoweth, 56, of Finksburg


Obituary for Firefighter EMS provider Robin Flater Chenoweth, 56, of Finksburg


Robin Flater Chenoweth, age 56, of Finksburg, passed away on Friday, March 20, 2015 at the Long View Nursing Home, Manchester.

Born March 2, 1959, in Baltimore, Maryland she was the daughter of Carole L. Gettel Flater of Finksburg and the late Thomas M. Flater, Jr.

Robin had been a career paramedic in Carroll County for many years. She loved animals and spending time with family and friends.

Surviving in addition to her mother are daughter, Megan E. Chenoweth of Westminster, brother and sister-in-law, Thomas, III and Samantha Flater of Finksburg and nephews, Noah and Dylan Flater of Finksburg.

The family will receive friends on Monday March 23rd from 2 to 4 and 6 to 7 pm. With a prayer service to follow at 7pm. at the Sykesville Freedom District Fire Hall 6680 Sykesville Rd., Sykesville, MD, US, 21784

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday March 24 10:00 am at the Fire Hall with Deacon Charlie Barnhart officiating. Interment will be in Providence Cemetery, Gamber.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the fire department of one's choice, to the Humane Society of Carroll County, 2517 Littlestown Pike, Westminster, Maryland 21158 or Carroll Hospice Dove House 292 Stoner Ave. Westminster, Md. 21157.

Online condolences may be offered at www.haightfuneralhome.com

To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Mrs Robin Flater Chenoweth please visit our Sympathy Store.

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Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/carroll-county-fire-fighter-and-ems.html

Friday, March 20, 2015

Sadly, I just heard that Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away at 3:20 pm. She was surrounded by family and friends. Details on arrangements will be posted once finalized... We are all so sad and will miss our friend dearly. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and our colleagues. Photo by Richard Koons Photography

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In this picture from July 12, 2009, Robin Chenoweth checks on the welfare of a firefighter at an early morning apartment fire at 500 Robin’s Way in Westminster. Photo by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2009/07/early-morning-westminster-fire-sends.html

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Arrangements for Robin Chenoweth were just announced…Viewing Monday with services Tuesday morning. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/carroll-county-fire-fighter-and-ems.html

Update, Saturday afternoon, March 21, 2015: Funeral arrangements for Robin Chenoweth have just been announced… It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Firefighter/Paramedic Robin Chenoweth.


Viewings will be held at Sykesville FD on Monday 3/23 from 1400-1600 and 1800-2000 with a Fire Dept Memorial Service at 1900hrs. Funeral Service will be Tuesday 3/24 at Sykesville FD at 1000hrs with a procession to the Church in Gamber for interment. A lunch-in will follow at Gamber FD. 
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away


Arrangements for Robin Chenoweth were just announced…Viewing Monday with services Tuesday morning. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/carroll-county-fire-fighter-and-ems.html


Update, Saturday afternoon, March 21, 2015: Funeral arrangements for Robin Chenoweth have just been announced… It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Firefighter/Paramedic Robin Chenoweth.

Viewings will be held at Sykesville FD on Monday 3/23 from 1400-1600 and 1800-2000 with a Fire Dept Memorial Service at 1900hrs. Funeral Service will be Tuesday 3/24 at Sykesville FD at 1000hrs with a procession to the Church in Gamber for interment. A lunch-in will follow at Gamber FD. 

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Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/carroll-county-fire-fighter-and-ems.html

Friday, March 20, 2015

Sadly, I just heard that Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away at 3:20 pm. She was surrounded by family and friends. Details on arrangements will be posted once finalized... We are all so sad and will miss our friend dearly. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and our colleagues. Photo by Richard Koons Photography

In this picture from July 12, 2009, Robin Chenoweth checks on the welfare of a firefighter at an early morning apartment fire at 500 Robin’s Way in Westminster. Photo by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2009/07/early-morning-westminster-fire-sends.html
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See also - Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art www.kevindayhoff.com: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, music, culture, opera... Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem. “Deadline U.S.A.” 1952. Ed Hutcheson: “That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!” - See more at: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/#sthash.4HNLwtfd.dpuf
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Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away

Arrangements for Robin Chenoweth were just announced…Viewing Monday with services Tuesday morning. http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/carroll-county-fire-fighter-and-ems.html

Update, Saturday afternoon, March 21, 2015: Funeral arrangements for Robin Chenoweth have just been announced… It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Firefighter/Paramedic Robin Chenoweth.

Viewings will be held at Sykesville FD on Monday 3/23 from 1400-1600 and 1800-2000 with a Fire Dept Memorial Service at 1900hrs. Funeral Service will be Tuesday 3/24 at Sykesville FD at 1000hrs with a procession to the Church in Gamber for interment. A lunch-in will follow at Gamber FD. 

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Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/03/carroll-county-fire-fighter-and-ems.html

Friday, March 20, 2015

Sadly, I just heard that Carroll County fire fighter and EMS provider Robin Chenoweth passed away at 3:20 pm. She was surrounded by family and friends. Details on arrangements will be posted once finalized... We are all so sad and will miss our friend dearly. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and our colleagues. Photo by Richard Koons Photography

In this picture from July 12, 2009, Robin Chenoweth checks on the welfare of a firefighter at an early morning apartment fire at 500 Robin’s Way in Westminster. Photo by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2009/07/early-morning-westminster-fire-sends.html
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Friday, March 20, 2015

My copy of the pamphlet on the 1979 Maryland Public Ethics Law and some thoughts on the current Maryland Ethics disclosure law.

My copy of the pamphlet on the 1979 Maryland Public Ethics Law and some thoughts on the current Maryland Ethics disclosure law.


For your files, please find from my old papers a copy of a pamphlet that the State Dept. of Legislative References published in early 1979 about the newly enacted Maryland Public Ethics Law which went into effect on July 1, 1979.

I have long-since forgotten the context of the law or what particular incident may have precipitated the law.

I do remember that at the time fulfilling the requirements of the law were relatively effortless and unremarkable.

According to some individuals close to the situation, “legislation enacted by the Maryland General Assembly in 2010 required local ethics ordinances to be at least as stringent as state law. At the time, many municipal government officials expressed alarm over the breadth of the new financial disclosure requirements. Municipal officials were concerned that the broad requirements would deter capable new candidates from seeking local office and influence current elected officials to decline to seek reelection.

“Bills introduced in the 2014 session of the General Assembly by Senator Raskin and Delegates Gilchrist and Haddaway-Riccio sought to exempt local municipal elected officials from disclosing certain items.

In 2015, the Maryland Municipal League is taking a different approach to this legislation. Rather than exempting elected municipal officials and candidates for municipal office from filing financial disclosure statements, or certain information therein, this legislation would shield certain confidential information from public inspection absent a finding by a local ethics commission of a violation of any part of the municipalities’ financial disclosure or conflict of interest requirements.

“Specifically, the law would shield information regarding a spouse or dependent child, and, unless related to a business entity with which the municipality has conducted business within the last 10 years, the candidate or elected official’s interests in real property located outside the municipal corporation, interests in corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies, employment information, and indebtedness.

“All of the above information would still be reported and submitted to the local ethics commission, be available to the local board of elections, and to the courts; however, it would not be releasable to the public absent a finding by the ethics commission of a violation.”

I was elected to the Common Council of the City of Westminster in 1999 and served as Mayor from 2001 until 2005.  In these capacities, and particularly as Mayor, I expended numerous hours engaged in activities in furtherance of the interests of the City and its residents and businesses.

At all times during my elected service, I worked in non-City-related employment, as a businessman, farmer, artist, and free-lance journalist.

I currently find the requirements of the Model Ordinance to be unreasonably burdensome. Although, in my capacity as an elected official, I thoroughly understand that I have no reasonable expectation of privacy as to information that is relevant to my service as a municipal employee, the Model Ordinance presents an opportunity for an excessive arbitrary invasion of my personal privacy, unrelated to the purpose and intent of the State Public Ethics Law, because the required disclosures would include information neither relevant, material, nor reasonably calculated to lead to the disclosure of pertinent information related in any way to my public service.

I take pride and satisfaction in my past service for our citizens as an elected official in Westminster, notwithstanding the fact that my expenses as an elected official exceeded the compensation provided by the Charter of the City of Westminster

I am unaware of any conduct by a City elected official or by a candidate for City elective office during my tenure that presented either a conflict of interest or the appearance of conflict of interest that would have been identified and corrected by the Model Ordinance but that would have been missed by the City’s Proposed Ordinance.

In my view, the provisions of the Model Ordinance, if not modified and revised as set forth in the City’s Proposed Ordinance, impose a substantial hardship and an undue intrusion upon the personal privacy of persons who choose to run for and serve in public office in the City of Westminster, without accomplishing any significant benefit in terms of protecting the public that would justify the hardship or invasion of privacy.

Although I, along with current and former municipal officials throughout the state, understand that in order for municipal government, the government that is closest to the people, to be effective, it must be transparent and open, approachable and accessible.

Strong ethics ordinances are critical for local government to effective, vibrant and meaningful.

My family has been involved in municipal government for many-generations dating back to before the 1890s. It is my insight that adoption of the Model Ordinance is over-kill and as such would significantly reduce the availability of qualified individuals for public service and encourages currently- elected officials to decline to seek reelection.

I do not know the status of the current legislation in the Maryland General Assembly. I do know that the current law is so severe, punishing and draconian that many good folks who would make great local municipal officials have quietly opted-out of participating in local government as a result of the new law.

Many current officials have determined that it is punitive in nature but find themselves unwilling to publicly challenge it for fear of being subjected to political and media ridicule – so they have simply decided to quietly opt-out from serving.

It should be further noted that no one can serve in public office without the support of their family. Family members across the state have objected to disclosing aspects of their personal life that have nothing to do with the material conduct of municipal government.

The nature and breadth of issues that municipal government officials deal with are far narrower than those that state and even county officials address. It stands to reason that the nature and breadth of financial disclosure of municipal officials versus state officials should parallel those differences.

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