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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Pakistani native breezes past TSA

How can a terrorist suspect of Pakistani descent get past TSA more easily than my wheelchair-bound elderly family members?

By Kevin Dayhoff May 5, 2010

Can someone please explain to me why it is so difficult to get my wheelchair-bound 70-some-odd-year-old Mother and my 90-couple-year-old Aunt past Transportation Safety Administration security procedures without being hassled horrendously?

And yet the New York Times Square attempted car bombing terrorist suspect, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, Faisal Shahzad, got on a plane and was on his way down the runway to Dubai before he was arrested?

I’m just asking?

It has been reported that Shahzad purchased his one-way plane ticket at the last minute with cash and had no luggage – and was on the federal "no-fly" list.

An Associated Press account says, “He was in custody after being hauled off a Dubai-bound plane at Kennedy Airport that he had been able to board Monday night despite being placed on the federal "no-fly" list.

“Authorities had planned to arrest Shahzad, who had been under constant watch from mid-afternoon, at his Connecticut home, but lost track of him, two people familiar with the probe told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the breach in surveillance.”

[…]

“Customs and Border Protection officials, who were on the lookout for Shahzad since the early afternoon, recognized his name on the manifest and ordered the flight stopped so they could arrest him. The flight had not left the gate at that point, the official said.

“Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano credited Customs officials with recognizing Shahzad's name on the manifest and stopping the flight. But she had little explanation for how he was able to board the plane with a last-minute ticket.”

And, how in the heck did he find a parking space in Times Square.

20100505 sdosmked Pakistani native breezes past TSA

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July 9, 2009 Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone: The Great American Bubble Machine

The Great American Bubble Machine


From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression -- and they're about to do it again

by: Matt Taibbi

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates… http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405?print=true


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July 9, 2009 Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone: The Great American Bubble Machine


“… Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid…”

April 5, 2010 This article appeared in the July 9, 2009 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available in the online archive.



20090709 Taibbi The Great American Bubble Machine

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Questions and Answers for old folks


From the American Association Of Retired People

Questions and Answers from AARP Forum


Q: Where can men over the age
of 60 find younger, sexy
women who are interested
in them?


A: Try a bookstore, under fiction.


Q: What can a man do while his
wife is going through
menopause?


A: Keep busy. If you're handy with
tools, you can finish the basement.
When you're done you'll have a
place to live.


Q: Someone has told me that
menopause is mentioned in
the bible. Is that true?
Where can it be found?


A: Yes. Matthew 14:92:
"And Mary rode Joseph's ass
all the way to Egypt ...."


Q: How can you increase the
heart rate of your 60-plus
year old husband?


A: Tell him you're pregnant.


Q: How can you avoid that
terrible curse of the elderly
wrinkles?


A: Take off your glasses.


Q: Seriously! What can I do for these Crow's feet and all those wrinkles on my face?


A: Go braless. It will usually pull them out.


Q: Why should 60-plus year old people use valet parking?


A: Valets don't forget where they park your car.


Q: Is it common for 60-plus year olds to have problems with short term memory storage?


A: Storing memory is not a problem, Retrieving it is the problem.


Q: As people age, do they sleep more soundly?


A: Yes, but usually in the afternoon.


Q: Where should 60-plus year olds look for eye glasses?


A: On their foreheads.


Q: What is the most common remark made by 60-plus year olds when they enter antique stores?


A: "Gosh, I remember these!"


SMILE, You've still got your sense of humor, RIGHT?

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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law

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Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times
Tuesday May 04, 2010 @ 03:49 PM EDT

Obama the Pragmatist, Tea Party on 'Far Right'

Jackie Calmes says Obama "supporters" calls him a "pragmatist" - but so does the New York Times. She also puts the Tea Party movement on the "far right."

The Times Salutes Bill Moyers, Hard-Left 'Lion of PBS,' Finds Few Critics
The paper's usual labeling imbalance was on display in how it treated left-wing vs right-wing critics of PBS.

Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law
The Times initially spun a 60%-36% pro-enforcement gap as a "slim margin." And the law doesn't give “gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally,” as the misleading NYT/CBS News poll question claims, but requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.”




Obama the Pragmatist, Tea Party on 'Far Right'

Reporter Jackie Calmes claimed in Tuesday's Obama-pitying “For Obama, A Nonstop Juggling Act” that his “supporters” call him a pragmatist. So does that make Times reporters Obama supporters as well? And is the Tea Party really “far right”?

By his own reckoning, Mr. Obama has always been hard to peg ideologically. His Republican opponents charge that he is masking a left-wing agenda in centrist-sounding words.
His supporters, including those who work for him, say he is a pragmatist whose instincts are genuinely centrist, both as a matter of politics and style.

The Times also constantly sells its readers on the idea that the big-spending, socially liberal Obama is some kind of moderate “pragmatist.”

Calmes continued the questionable labeling:

And just as Mr. Obama has ratcheted up his own populist attacks against corporate self-interest and Wall Street’s return to business as usual, so did Roosevelt become more vocally populist as re-election neared and he faced demagogic opposition. That included the likes of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, the radio broadcaster Father Charles Coughlin and a domestic Communist Party making inroads on the left, much like the Tea Party movement today on the far right.

Jonah Goldberg, author of “Liberal Fascism,” will appreciate a journalist accurately placing Coughlin on the left. But is the Tea Party really deserve the unflattering “far right” imprimatur? The Times rarely if ever uses the term “far left” to describe a slice of the American electorate.

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The Times Salutes Bill Moyers, Hard-Left 'Lion of PBS,' Finds Few Critics

Two Times stories related to the (perhaps temporary) retirement of PBS's left-wing sage Bill Moyers both soft-pedaled the host's weekly attacks on business and government issued from his money-lined, taxpayer-funded PBS perch.

Elizabeth Jensen's contribution to the Sunday Arts page asked a question perhaps only the Times' liberal readership is asking: “How, Exactly, Do You Follow Bill Moyers?

Jensen focused on left-wing complaints about Newsweek editor Jon Meachem, the host of the program replacing Moyers' “Now on PBS,” without ever delving into conservative complaints about Moyers and his history of neo-Marxist rhetoric delivered in a jus'-folks Texas accent. Moyers was merely called “the lion of PBS.” Not even the “liberal lion.”

While Meachem's left-wing critics from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting were merely termed an “advocacy group” by Jensen, she found that Meachem was also a “frequent target of conservatives, who decry what they say are Newsweek's 'liberal' leanings.”

Jensen forwarded complaints from unlabeled left-wingers:

“Need to Know,” which will tape at a new studio at Lincoln Center, arrives to plenty of apprehension from PBS viewers, thousands of whom, riled up by the advocacy group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, have already protested. Their fear: the new hourlong show will fail to live up to the programs it is replacing: “Bill Moyers Journal” and “Now on PBS,” which ran a combined 90 minutes. Mr. Moyers, the lion of PBS, wanted, at 75, to step back from the grind of a weekly show, and was set to sign off on Friday, promising to return with specials. “Now” was cancelled.

In a March 25 online column Michael Getler, the PBS ombudsman, called the new program “a pretty big gamble for PBS” given the “fear, as expressed by many viewers in recent months, that PBS may be pulling in its horns and shying away from controversy.” One letter writer said, “I have the distinct impression that PBS is moving towards kinder, gentler documentary programming so as to avoid offending the powerful and upsetting the political right.” Another complained of Mr. Meacham’s “right-of-center stance on world events,” as evidenced in Newsweek, of which he is the editor.

Mr. Meacham, the winner of a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his biography “American Lion: Andrew Jackson and the White House,” dismissed talk of his supposed partisan leanings: “I’m a journalist and a biographer who calls them as I see them.” Mr. Meacham, who is a regular on MSNBC -- where he mostly stays out of the fray when the partisan shouting gets too intense -- is a frequent target of conservatives, who decry what they say are Newsweek’s “liberal” leanings.

Media reporter Brian Stelter briefly acknowledged the conservative beef with Moyers, but fell down on the labeling front in his Monday Arts page story.

Mr. Moyers has long been a controversial figure. In a column in the May 10 issue of The Nation, the media columnist Eric Alterman called Mr. Moyers the “last unapologetic liberal anywhere in broadcast television.” Conservative critics have long accused Mr. Moyers and his programs of being one-sided.

Again the Times skimped on the “liberal” label. While Stelter couldn't spare a “liberal” or “left-wing” label for the hard-left Nation magazine, he managed to uncover unidentified “conservative critics”of Moyers.

You can follow Times Watch on Twitter.


Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll focused on Arizona's tough new anti-illegal immigration law, summarized in a story by Randal Archibold and Megan Thee-Brenan that only made the top of the National section, not the usual front-page placement for a poll story.

At least the print headline was strong: “Poll Finds Serious Concern Among Americans About Immigration.” Here's the lead, slanted toward the protesters point of view:

The overwhelming majority of Americans think the country’s immigration policies need to be seriously overhauled. And despite protests against Arizona’s stringent new immigration enforcement law, a majority of Americans support it, even though they say it may lead to racial profiling.

When the poll was first posted at nytimes.com Monday evening, a teaser headline claimed that only a “slim majority” favored the immigration law, but that was misleading if technically accurate. There was nothing “slim” about the actual results.

51% say the law "is about right,” while only 36% said it “goes too far,” while another 9% said it “doesn’t go far enough.” In other words, 60% agree with the thrust of the law, with only 36% thinking it goes too far. (The “slim” modifier was dropped from Tuesday's print edition.)

Not even the liberal slant of the question posed by the Times and CBS stopped the public from showing strong support for Arizona's law. (There's a .PDF version of the poll here.)

Here's question 67:
67. As you may know, the state of Arizona recently passed a law that gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally, requires people to produce documents verifying their status if asked, and allows officers to detain anyone who cannot do so. Do you think this law goes too far, doesn’t go far enough, or is about right?

Actually, the law doesn't give “gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally.” It requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.” Even then, people favored tougher enforcement by a substantial margin. One can't help but suspect the poll would have gotten front-page play if the numbers had been reversed.

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TVNewser: More ABC News Desk Changes Announced

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Tuesday, May 04

CBS AND CNN IN PARTNERSHIP NEGOTIATIONS?
Recurring rumors of CNN partnering with a broadcast network are nothing new, but New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman reports that sources say CBS News and the cable network are in "advanced negotiations" at the moment, with one source telling NYMag that talks have been going on for months: CBS News and CNN are in advanced negotiations about signing a news-gathering partnership, according to executives familiar with the discussions. The talks revolve around how the two...
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MORE ABC NEWS DESK CHANGES ANNOUNCED
ABC News President David Westin today remaining news desk staff changes as a part of the network's recent restructuring. Dimitrije Stejic will be Deputy Foreign Managing Editor based in London and reporting to Tom Nagorski, the Foreign Managing Editor. David Herndon will be western Deputy Managing Editor based in LA and Wendy Fisher will be eastern Deputy Managing Editor based in New York, and both will report to Domestic Managing Editor David Reiter. Michael Kreisel...
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ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE ON BOMBING ATTEMPT SUSPECT
This afternoon, Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference in Washington announcing that the suspect in the failed Time Square bombing attempt will face terrorism and WMD charges. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole, and NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly also spoke. (Holder's remarks here.) The presser took place just a short time after President Obama addressed the suspect's arrest during remarks to the Business Council earlier today. From 1:20pmET...
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Tuesday, May 04

EVENING NEWS RATINGS: WEEK OF APRIL 26
"NBC Nightly News" was again the highest-rated evening newscast last week, with "ABC World News" in second by 580,000 viewers. The first-place gap in the demo was the smallest it's been since last October, though "Nightly" has been ahead of "World News" in A25-54 for 75 straight weeks now. Week-to-week, all three programs saw small increases in viewership with "CBS Evening News" seeing the largest, +190,000 Total Viewers and +160,000 demo. Numbers for the week...
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NY TIMES REPORTER JOINS BLOOMBERG TV AS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
•The New York Times' Louise Story, who will remain with the newspaper as a financial reporter, has joined Bloomberg Television as a contributing editor. Bloomberg said in its announcement, "Story will appear weekly on the network to offer news and analysis from her coverage of Wall Street banks, regulation, and all things finance." Story appeared this morning on Betty Liu's program....
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CONAN HELPS PUSH '60 MINUTES' INTO TOP 10
CBS' "60 Minutes," which drew 13.5 million viewers on Sunday evening, finished the week as the #8 most-watched program in television. This Sunday's broadcast featured Steve Kroft's anticipated sit-down with former NBC "Tonight" show host Conan O'Brien, who spoke for the first time about his experience with Jay Leno and departing the network. (Details on that here.) "60" also drew the most viewers on Sunday night....
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Tuesday, May 04

OBAMA DELIVERS STATEMENT ON ARREST IN ATTEMPTED BOMBING
President Obama delivered a statement this morning at 11:06amET on the arrest of a suspect in the weekend's failed Times Square bombing. The president had been scheduled to speak at the Business Council about rebuilding the economy. Diane Sawyer anchored a special report for ABC News with with correspondents Brian Ross and Pierre Thomas, and Katie Couric anchored a special report for CBS News with correspondent Bob Orr. CBS went back to regular programming at...
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THE SCOREBOARD: SUNDAY, MAY 2
25-54 demographic: (L +SD)Total day: FNC: 291 | CNN: 223 | MSNBC: 139 | HLN: 111 Prime: FNC: 219 | CNN: 199 | MSNBC: 197 | HLN: 69 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC NewsHQ: FNSunday: Report: Huckabee: Geraldo: Geraldo: Huckabee: 408 357 296 207 200 249 193 CNN Newsroom: Newsroom: Newsroom: King: King: Newsroom: King: 167 184 226 200 207 191 184 MSNBC Special: Special: Special: Special: Special: Special:...
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THE SCOREBOARD: SATURDAY, MAY 1
25-54 demographic: (L +SD)Total day: FNC: 231 | CNN: 167 | MSNBC: 133 | HLN: 91 Prime: FNC: 174 | CNN: 209 | MSNBC: 190 | HLN: 78 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC NewsHQ: NewsHQ: Report: Huckabee: Geraldo: Geraldo/WHCD: Jrnl/FNW:: 206 157 183 176 152 194 98 CNN Newsroom: SitRoom: Newsroom: Newsroom: King: WHCD: King: 153 98 127 151 175 302 149 MSNBC Special: Special: Special: Special: WHCD: WHCD:...
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ARREST IN TIMES SQUARE BOMB ATTEMPT
Here's how the cable news networks reported the overnight arrest of a suspect in the Times Square bomb plot. MSNBC reported the arrest at 12:06amET with NBC's Pete Williams breaking the news, along with WNBC anchor Lynn Berry who has been filling in on MNSBC. Williams was first to ID the suspect as Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad. WNBC investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst as well as reporter Ida Siegel in Connecticut joined in MSNBC's coverage before and...
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Monday, May 03

ANCHORS AWAY, COVERING OIL SPILL, TIMES SQUARE ATTEMPTED BOMBING
The big three network anchors left their studios for tonight's broadcasts. Two had far shorter trips than the third. The AP's David Bauder writes about it. [Brian] Williams anchored NBC's "Nightly News" from Louisiana, after spending part of his day with the shrimp boat "Storm Watch." It is the 15th time he has come to the region since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 27th evening news broadcast he has anchored from there. Williams said he...
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THE SCOREBOARD: FRIDAY, APRIL 30
25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 337 | CNN: 170 | MSNBC: 121 | HLN: 138Prime: FNC: 426 | CNN: 234 | MSNBC: 233 | HLN: 161 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC Beck: Baier: Shep: O'Reilly: Hannity: Greta: O'Reilly: 592 423 355 478 402 398 329 CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: KingUSA: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper: 173 135 181 250 226 227 184 MSNBC Matthews: EdShow: Matthews: Olbermann: Maddow: Who?:...
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Speed cameras overturned in Sykesville by Charles Schelle

Speed cameras overturned in Sykesville by Schelle

321 votes to repeal ordinance; 208 votes to keep law

By Charles Schelle Posted 5/04/10 http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/4296/speed-cameras-overturned-sykesville/

SYKESVILLE — Sykesville voters decided to go against the mayor and Town Council's decision to allow speed cameras in town limits.

Out of 529 ballots during Tuesday's referendum on Ordinance 271 "Speed Monitoring Systems," 321 people voted to repeal the ordinance and 208 voted to keep the ordinance, Town Clerk Janice Perrault said.

The election is a result of resident Chris Martin collecting 401 petition signatures from town voters and delivering them to the town March 14, thus forcing a referendum on the speed camera measure.


Read Mr. Schelle’s entire article here: http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/4296/speed-cameras-overturned-sykesville/

REFERENDUM ELECTION FOR THE TOWN OF SYKESVILLE

Today, May 4, 2010 a special election was held at the Town of Sykesville, 7547 Main Street to determine, if Ordinance Number 271, which amends the Town Code to allow speed cameras in school zones, should be maintained or should be repealed.

The final count was 529 Total Ballots cast

For to retain the Ordinance 208

Against to repeal the Ordinance 321

For additional information please call 410-795-8959.

REFERENDUM QUESTION:

Ordinance Number 271 amends the Code of the Town of Sykesville by adding (1) a new Article III, Section 165-16, titled “School Zones”, which establishes three separate school zones within the Town and established maximum speed limits on municipal roads within those school zones and (2) a new Article IV, Section 165-17, titled “Speed Monitoring Systems”, which authorizes the use of speed monitoring systems in school zones within the Town.

Sykesville Town House 7547 Main Street Sykesville, MD 21784 410-795-8959

20100504 Speed cameras overturned in Sykesville by Schelle

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New York Times News Alert: Picasso Sells at Auction for $106.5 Million, a Record for an Artwork

New York Times News Alert: Picasso Sells at Auction for $106.5 Million, a Record for an Artwork

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Tue, May 04, 2010 -- 7:55 PM ET
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Picasso Sells at Auction for $106.5 Million, a Record for an Artwork

A painting that Picasso created in a single day in March
1932, "Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and
Bust)," sold for $106.5 million, a world record auction price
for a work of art, at Christie's Tuesday night. Bidding for
the Picasso lasted 8 minutes and 6 seconds; there were six
bidders.

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Reisterstown’s Bloomin’ ArtFest 2010 Sat, May 15th, Sun May 16th

Reisterstown’s Bloomin’ ArtFest 2010 Sat, May 15th, Sun May 16th

Community celebrates local talent, non-profit organizations

Reisterstown, MD. – Spring is Bloomin’ in Baltimore County! The Main Street shop keepers and the Reisterstown Recreation Council proudly host the sixth annual Reisterstown Bloomin’ ArtFest, Saturday, May 15th and Sunday, May 16th, held on the grounds of Franklin Middle School at 120 Main St., Reisterstown, MD 21136. Admission is FREE.

The celebration provides a wholesome family atmosphere, showcasing local businesses, artists, musicians, and traditional festival food. A special children’s area sponsored by the Kiwanis Club will feature games, arts and crafts, games and face painting.

The juried art show highlights a variety of handmade work by artists living in the Reisterstown/Glyndon corridor and surrounding counties. Booths signed to date include bead and other jewelers, fine artists, textile artists and other craftsmen.

Entertainment on Saturday includes local musicians from the Reisterstown Jazz Ensemble, the Glyndon Art Players and father-daughter duo Kat and Lyle Montanye and One Eyed Kings. Sunday brings the Fountainheads, Bedtime for Jack, recording artists Smooth Kentucky and singer/songwriter Karen Goldberg.

This year, ArtFest is pleased to provide exhibit space to local non-profit organizations

at no cost. To date, the Community Crisis Center, the Human Society of Baltimore and Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area are exhibiting.

Main Street business owners will hold special sidewalk sales and activities throughout the weekend, emphasizing the unique experience that is gained through shopping local.

For more detailed information and vendor applications, visit www.bloominartfest.com. Phone 410-833-5151, or email CRMorano@aol.com. We’re also on Facebook under Bloomin ArtFest . Media inquiries and event coverage are invited.

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WJZ: Mount Airy, Md., Elects Growth Planner New Mayor

WJZ: Mount Airy, Md., Elects Growth Planner New Mayor

May 4, 2010 1:40 pm US/Eastern http://wjz.com/

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MOUNT AIRY, Md. (AP) ― Voters in Mount Airy have chosen a new mayor who has worked to control growth of the town on the Frederick-Carroll county line.

Pat Rockinberg, vice chairman of the town's planning and zoning commission, defeated Councilwoman Wendi Peters with 54 percent of the vote Monday.

Rockinberg succeeds David Pyatt, who resigned in December amid complaints from City Hall staff and Town Council members that he bullied people.

Pyatt claimed he was forced out by those who favor more rapid growth in the town of nearly 9,000 people, about 25 miles west of Baltimore.


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Digest of stories on the Mount Airy election

Digest of stories on the Mount Airy election

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Explore Carroll www.explorecarroll.com: Rockinberg becomes Mt. Airy's fourth mayor in 15 ... Mount Airy has yet another new mayor while voters also selected two new ... After the votes were tallied, newcomer Scott Strong, 38, led the field with 940 ... www.explorecarroll.com/news/4294/mount-airy-election/

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Mt Airy MD town election results By Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/2a62rs5

Rockinberg becomes Mt. Airy's fourth mayor in 15 months Blais, Strong win council positions By Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/2a62rs5

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New Bedford Herald http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/327123.html by Kevin Dayhoff - Mount Airy election results ... By New Bedford Herald It was well past midnight before the results of the Mount Airy elections became known. After the votes were tallied, newcomer Scott Strong, 38, led the field with 940 votes for one of the council seats. He will be joined by David Blais, ... New Bedford Herald by Kevin Dayhoff - http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/


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Rockinberg to be Mount Airy's new mayor Stong Blais in as ...
Pat Rockinberg will take over as Mount Airy's mayor on May 17 ... Mount Airy The town's planning and zoning vicechairman Pat Rockinberg will be the new ... http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/displayUpdate.htm?StoryID=104486 ...


Mount Airy, Md., Elects Growth Planner New Mayor WJZ Pat Rockinberg, vice chairman of the town's planning and zoning commission, defeated Councilwoman Wendi Peters with 54 percent of the vote Monday. ... http://wjz.com/wireapnewsmd/Mount.Airy.Md.2.1674113.html


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Mount Airy election results are in

Mount Airy election results are in: Strong, Blais elected to council Rockinberg chosen mayor.

By Kevin Dayhoff May 4, 2010 http://tinyurl.com/397w5ow

(Also see: Rockinberg becomes Mt. Airy's fourth mayor in 15 months Blais, Strong win council positions By Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/2a62rs5 in http://www.explorecarroll.com/)

Out of the 5,657 registered voters in the small town of about 10,000 citizens, a total number of 1434 Mount Airy citizens cast their votes at the fireman's carnival grounds activities building on Twin Arch Road in Mount Airy on Monday.

Up for grabs were two council seats and the mayor’s office. Each town council member is paid $4,000 per year and the mayor is paid $8,500 a year. It was well past midnight before the results of the Mount Airy elections became known.

After the votes were tallied, newcomer Scott Strong, 38, led the field with 940 votes for one of the council seats. He will be joined by David Blais, 42, who garnered 855 votes.

The third council candidate, incumbent Chris Everich, 49, received 651 votes. The other council incumbent, Gary Nelson, choose not to run for re-election.

Patrick Rockinberg, 47, bested Wendi Peters, 46, 768 to 658 votes, respectively, to lead the municipality for the next four years.

Peters, who is currently a town councilwomen has two years remaining on her current term. She has served as an elected or appointed official for over 20-years and her father and grandfather had previously served on the town council

Mayor Peter Helt, who was voted in as mayor by the council members on Dec. 7, 2009 after the council voted out former Mayor David Pyatt, chose not to stand for election for mayor. Mayor Pyatt had taken the place of former Mayor Frank Johnson Jr., who was elected in 2006 and resigned in February 2009.

In 2009, a total of three citizens took turns in the mayor’s office in a year of public bickering and disagreement. In the last several years, Mount Airy has stayed in the news for political turmoil and intrigue, allegations of ethics violations, quarrels over growth and annexation, recreation, and water.

While issues such as the town budget, local schools, parks and recreation opportunities, recycling and trash removal were mentioned; growth, water, development, and annexation were the main items of concern on the minds of most voters and the emphasis by all the candidates.

Rockinberg, moved to the town 13 years ago, currently serves as the vice-chair of the Mount Airy planning and zoning commission.

In the March 31 League of Woman Voters candidates forum, he emphasized that he will meet with citizens every Saturday in the mayor’s office to discuss citizen concerns.

He furthermore said that he will greatly rely upon the 2007 town survey “with an overwhelming 44% response,” that he spearheaded as the Chairman of the Growth and Development Task Force.

According to his campaign literature, Strong has “21 years of business experience working in the private sector as a government contractor supporting all aspects for multiple $100+ million dollar programs,” has lived in Mount Airy for 10 years.

Strong stated that he “could make a difference in shaping policy and managing growth thereby positively benefiting not only the businesses and the town's economy…

“Mount Airy needs to be a distinct community bordered by existing agricultural farmland that protects our watershed areas rather than having our town turn into the next Gaithersburg, Germantown, or Frederick.

“I also want to work more closely with county governments and think we can have Mount Airy prosper without needing to have residential developers growing not only the population base, but also increasing the burden to existing infrastructures that are currently maintainable for the residents today, wrote Strong on his Facebook page.

Former Mayor Pyatt nominated Blais at the March 8 town nominations meeting, by noting that “he earned his Eagle Scout badge from Mount Airy’s Troop 460, graduated from Linganore High School and has served honorably in the U.S. Air Force for 24 years since 1986.”

In a candidate’s questionnaire for the Frederick Gazette, Blais noted, “I believe the town should concentrate on more commercial growth versus residential.

“The town still has over 400 homes in the pipeline to be built. We need to look hard at infill development before approving any new annexations or outer development. I will not support any commercial growth that could damage the vitality of our downtown Main Street.”

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Monday, May 03, 2010

Mount Airy voters go to the polls. No results yet…

Mount Airy voters go to the polls.

No results yet…

May 3, 2010

By Kevin Dayhoff

The polls have now been closed at the Fireman's carnival grounds activities building on Twin Arch Road in Mount Airy since 8 p.m. and so far no word as to any of the winners.

In today’s town elections, voters went to the polls from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. to choose two council members from a filed that included David M. Blais, Scott Strong, and incumbent Chris Everich.

For the mayor’s office, citizens had a choice of Patrick Rockinberg and Wendi Peters.

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