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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Bill Schroeder at Giulianova Groceria at 11 East Main Street in Westminster
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Maryland Democrat Arrested for Indecent Exposure | Washington Free Beacon
"Maryland Democrat Arrested for Indecent Exposure
Flashed camera held by her ex-husband, Barak"
Flashed camera held by her ex-husband, Barak"
BY:
July 14, 2015 5:30 pm
A Democratic state delegate in Maryland who is rumored to be considering a run for Congress was charged with trespassing and indecent exposure after exposing her breasts to her ex-husband and his fiancée at their home, according to court documents obtained by the Washington Post.
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5 dead in Tenn. shooting, including 4 Marines and sole gunman
5 dead in Tenn. shooting, including 4 Marines and sole
gunman
By Mark Berman July 16 at 3:37 PM
Multiple people were killed in shootings that occurred in
Tennessee on Thursday morning, including one burst of gunfire at an armed
forces recruiting center, according to officials….
Four Marines were killed in a shooting a Naval reserve
center in Tennessee on Thursday, along with the suspected gunman, officials
said.
The shootings occurred at a Naval base and at an armed
services recruiting center on Thursday morning authorities said. In addition to
the four Marines, the gunman also wounded a Chattanooga police officer and two
other people, Mayor Andy Berke said at a news conference…
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Sharon K. "Weezie" (Waltz) McKinsey, 55, passed away Sunday, July 5, 2015
Sharon K. "Weezie" (Waltz) McKinsey, 55, passed
away Sunday, July 5, 2015
She was the wife of Rick L. McKinsey. The couple celebrated
their 33rd wedding anniversary on May 24, 2015.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11 a.m. on
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at Life Tributes by Olewiler & Heffner Funeral
Chapel & Crematory, Inc., 35 Gotham Place in Red Lion.
Viewings will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday and 9:30
to 11 a.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home. Certified Celebrant Betty
Frey will be officiating at the service.
Burial will be in Susquehanna Memorial Gardens in York.
Weezie was born in Baltimore on February 21, 1960, the
daughter of the late Dayton E. and Dorothy E. (Dorsey) Waltz.
She was the owner and operator of Puss Face Customs in Red
Lion, where she was a master mechanic, did state inspections and restorations
of motorcycles.
Along with her husband, Weezie leaves a son, Justin McKinsey
and his wife Tara of Windsor; daughter, Angelique Baublitz and her husband Bob
of Hanover; seven grandchildren, Jazmin Lindamore, Desiree McKinsey, Gavin
Baublitz, Tyler McKinsey, Destiny McKinsey, Brylee McKinsey, and Autumn
McKinsey, and was expecting her first great-grandchild.
She also leaves two sisters, Joyce Kinser and her husband,
Larry of Westminster, Md. and Tina Becker and her husband Glenn of Westminster,
Md.
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Published in York Daily Record & York Dispatch on July
9, 2015
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Heavenly Father, You are a constant source of wisdom,
courage, and perseverance.
We thank you for this opportunity to spend time together
with friends, family and co-workers.
O god of grace and glory, we remember before you today our
sister Sharon "Weezie" McKinsey who left this earth for her final
rest on July 5, 2015.
We thank you for giving her to us to know and to love as a
companion in our pilgrimage on earth and our service to our community.
We lift her up into your loving arms. Hold her, her family,
friends and colleagues in your heart and our prayers.
In your boundless compassion, console us who still mourn.
Those we love don't go away. They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near, Still loved, still missed and very dear.
Bless this time, this food, and the hands that prepared it…
Bless our time together for fellowship.
Thank you for being the constant source of wisdom, courage,
and perseverance. Amen #####
“We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to
ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord,
so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” (Romans 14:7-8)
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Baltimore Crime Beat May 6 - July 12, 2015: About 130 Baltimore Police officers injured during Baltimore riots
Baltimore Crime Beat May 6 - July 12, 2015: About 130 Baltimore Police officers injured during Baltimore riots
Old Harley Davidson police motorcycle and mobile booking
center.
Actually I do not know the date of the picture. I saw it on
Pinterest and it really captured my imagination. I am working on a column about
the early history of the Maryland State Police - and in particular, the early
line of duty deaths. One of which occurred in Westminster at the intersection
of Washington Road and Colonial Avenue. Officer Clinton R. Rhodes was killed in
a motorcycle mishap in January 28, 1931.
I also found this:
BALTIMORE
CRIME BEAT July 12, 2015
About 130 officers injured during Baltimore riots released
from hospital
By Staff Reports - The Baltimore Sun MAY 6, 2015, 7:00 AM
All police officers injured during last week's protests and
riots have been released from the hospital, Baltimore police said….
About 130 officers were hurt in protestrelated injuries,
said police spokesman Det. Jeremy Silbert…
Gov. Larry Hogan visited injured officers … at Shock Trauma
last week
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BALTIMORE
CRIME BEAT July 12, 2015
Kevin Rector and Natalie Sherman
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, law enforcement officials
and prosecutors have created an around-the-clock "war room" to
address the spike in violent crime that has racked Baltimore since the death of
Freddie Gray, they said Sunday.
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Mass transit in Baltimore is part of the problem
Mass transit in Baltimore is part of the problem
Kevin E. Dayhoff July 12, 2015
I am a staunch supporter of public transportation, but Mr.
Kelly (Jacques
Kelly: Baltimore is not a public transportation town, July 10, 2015 Baltimore
Sun,) is so right:
"Right off, I'll say that Gov. Larry Hogan's refusal to
back the Red Line plan does not shock me. I thought it was expensive and
grandiose, involving the construction of deep tunnels and too much
infrastructure. I am sorry that neighborhood leaders feel shortchanged, but it
was a good idea that over the years went haywire as it grew more complex.
Baltimore is a place where it is best not to apply logic or expect much when it
comes to public transit..." [J
Kelly: “Baltimore is not a public transportation town:” http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-kelly-column-bus-20150710-column.html]
I have good memories of the trolleys... But I have been all
over the world and I have never seen public transportation run worse than the
manner in which it is run in Baltimore - and Maryland.
It goes from nowhere to nowhere and the customer service is
horrid - you would think it was run by Comcast or Verizon. No wonder it does
not enjoy popular support.
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To which a reader on Facebook asked a fair question, “So
what is a reasonable solution for people in the city who cannot afford a car to
get work, hospitals, etc.?”
I am not sure that I know the answer, but I am sure that Facebook
is ill-equipped to answer this question in depth.
Eventually many folks who do not like Md. Gov. Larry Hogan
will rail about the governor’s decision to stop the politically-created boondoggle,
the red line; no matter how the metrics and the merits of the decision indicate
that the transit line was ill-conceived from the very beginning. Come a little
closer…. The whispers in the hallways of Annapolis are that the red line was essentially
conceived as a political bone to throw to the folks who bristled at the idea of
the mismanaged but nevertheless widely used and poplar DC metro, getting money
for the purple line.
Essentially, the current management of mass transit in the
Baltimore area does not meet the needs of Baltimore's workforce and has
long-since become part of the problem. Again, be sure to read Mr. Kelly’s
article: Jacques Kelly: Baltimore is not a public transportation town, July 10,
2015 Baltimore Sun - http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-kelly-column-bus-20150710-column.html.
Employment and economic opportunities do not widely take
into consideration locating in Baltimore, in part, because the transportation
system put in place to move employees from where they live to where the jobs
are located, does not work. Thus perpetuating an endless vicious cycle.
The previous administration in Annapolis recognized that the
Potemkin red line was poorly conceived and kept kicking the can down the road
because it recognized the political fallout of stopping the project.
There is a solid reason why the purple line was given the
go-ahead and the red line was stopped. The purple line makes sense - if some of
the extravagant costs can be contained.
The red line was an imaginary illusionary creature of
politics from the very beginning. The purple line was a manifestation of a
recognized need that will derive a well-utilized return.
The red line looks great on paper and the rhetoric is
utopian and wonderful. In the end, it would not have worked or solved any
transportation problems. The red line would have robbed precious taxpayer
resources and literally thrown money down a very deep tunnel that went from
nowhere to nowhere.
The construction of the project alone would have irreparably
damaged the local economy, it was supposed to better, beyond recovery and put
countless businesses out of business and put many folks out of work.
The previous administration knew full-well that the red line
and mass transit lacked popular support because mass transit in Baltimore and
Maryland is so poorly run. It lacks critical popular support - except for
political astroturfing.
The more the project was studied in order to avoid stopping
it, the more convoluted and complicated - and extraordinarily expensive it
became. In the end, no matter the cost, the red line would have served
very-very few folks at an untenable cost - that would throttled any other
future consideration for re-organizing and revitalizing mass transit for
many-many years.
If the red line had been appropriately priced, it might have
served well as another spoke in the mass transit wheel. But it was never the
silver bullet it has been made out to be in the current rhetoric. Perhaps as a
light rail – like the old successful trolley lines? Might have been worth the
cost? Maybe?
In the big picture, the red line would have served very
little of the folks in the city that "cannot afford a car to get to work,
hospitals, etc."
Of course the irony is that the escalating costs of owning a
car in Maryland, to help pay for a transit system that does not work, only
became part of the problem...
And the red line would have certainly not done a darn thing
to help alleviate traffic on the beltway - which, of course, is another
manifestation of a failed transit system.
This is not going to get figured-out at our pay grade. It is
at times like this that we sorely miss Md. Del. Pete Rawlings… I have a great
deal of respect for Congressman Elijah Cummings. I disagree with him on the red
line… But wholeheartedly agree with his quote about Del. Rawlings, “A
politician worries about the next election. A true statesman worries about the
next generation, and children yet unborn, and that was Pete Rawlings."
-Congressman Elijah Cummings.
I have close friends, whose opinions that I really respect
who very much disagree with me and I respect their thoughtful approach. However
too many folks in the know, are well aware that the cost of another
much-underutilized Potemkin transit line would bode well in a populist campaign
for re-election, but set back transportation in Maryland decades - no matter
how high you raised taxes to pay for a line very few folks will use.
The reasonable solution is to be a wise steward of finite
resources so that they may be spent in a manner that gets the most folks and
workers from point-a, to point-b. Look that up in the dictionary and you will
not see a picture of the red line. And this analysis come from someone who is a
staunch unrepentant supporter of mass transit and has the scars to prove it.
Just saying. We now return to our regularly scheduled program of cat videos and
cute pictures of dogs and children.
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
Leave the front door open and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. Shunryu Suzuki
Leave the front door
open
and your back door
open.
Allow your thoughts
to come and go.
Just don’t serve them
tea.
Shunryu Suzuki
Leave the front door open and your back door open. Allow
your thoughts to come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. Shunryu Suzuki #partylikeajournalist
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I meditate. I burn candles. I drink green tea, and I still want to smack people.
I meditate. I burn candles. I drink green tea, and I still
want to smack people.
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Old Harley Davidson police motorcycle and mobile booking center.
Old Harley Davidson police motorcycle and mobile booking
center.
Actually I do not know the date of the picture. I saw it on
Pinterest and it really captured my imagination. I am working on a column about
the early history of the Maryland State Police - and in particular, the early
line of duty deaths. One of which occurred in Westminster at the intersection
of Washington Road and Colonial Avenue. Officer Clinton R. Rhodes was killed in
a motorcycle mishap in January 28, 1931.
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The milkweed is keeping the bees quite happy on these long hot summer days
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July 9, 2015 update to Feb. 2008 story: “Compact avoids Do Not Deliver free newspaper law.”
July 9, 2015 update to Feb. 2008 story: “Compact avoids Do
Not Deliver free newspaper law.” http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-9-2015-update-to-feb-2008-story.html
Update July 9, 2015 - A reader has been in touch to say that
the link is dead for this story, “Compact avoids Do Not Deliver newspaper law,
February 29, 2008.
Kevin E. Dayhoff July 9, 2015
Westminster Md. - The February 29, 2008 story was about proposed
legislation in the Maryland General Assembly to stop the delivery – that is to
say, the littering - of unwanted spam newspapers on your front yard – and the
agreement that was reached that stopped the legislation from moving forward.
Word on the street in February 2008 was that the “do not
deliver” legislation faced an uphill battle but had a better than average
chance of passing because unwanted papers piling up in your front yard annoys
both conservatives and liberals.
In Carroll County, the bipartisan initiative was spearheaded
by a leading community liberal as far back as 1995 – and introduced in the
Maryland General Assembly in 2008 by a leading community conservative. A copy
of the November 13, 1995 citizen’s complaint was forwarded to the Westminster
mayor’s office on November 14, 1995.
The issue of the free newspapers littering
neighborhoods was brought-up frequently in community meetings with homeowner
associations and community groups from 1995 to 2008.
Actually, the free newspapers in the area ultimately made the
decision for the legislative initiative as a result of failing to respond to
the citizen complaints of many neighborhoods throughout the community.
Many in February 2008 felt strongly that the agreement did
not go far enough. That in addition to the opt-out phone number, the agreement
ought to have required the free newspapers to stop delivery at an address where
it was obvious the free papers were not being retrieved – and as a result the papers were piling-up in an unsightly mess.
The accumulation of unwanted newspapers on a property in the
neighborhood is an eyesore. In the words of one neighborhood newsletter, “Free
papers laying around make the neighborhood look bad, and can invite crime by
advertising when you may be away from home.”
More often than not, the accumulation of the unwanted free
papers eventually has to be cleaned-up by municipal or county maintenance
workers – which is a burden upon the taxpayers.
Or worse yet, the unwanted free newspapers end-up clogging
the stormwater drains, causing damage and more cost to the taxpayers because
government maintenance workers need to spend time cleaning-up the mess.
Apparently the problem has raised its ugly head again.
If you will recall, the February 2008 agreement with local
newspapers was successful in getting Carroll County Delegate Shewell to
withdraw the “do not deliver free newspapers” legislation.
In return for the withdrawal of the legislation, the local
papers would provide a phone number that homeowners could call and opt-out of
the free delivery.
Today, over seven years later, no one remembers the legislation
or the agreement that stopped the legislation - - and the number published on
the front of the free newspapers has evolved into voice mail jail that
ultimately, if you are patient enough, lands you with someone who does not know
where Westminster or Carroll County Maryland is located. “Never heard of it.” You
cannot make this up.
In other words, it is a number provided so that the free
newspapers can say that they are in compliance with the agreement. After-all,
no-one said that the agreement required that the published number has to
actually work as it was intended by the agreement… Just saying.
Meanwhile, what many folks have long forgotten is that
according to Channel 2 in Baltimore, “Newspapers would have seven days to
comply with a request. If it's still
delivered, consumers could register a complaint with the Attorney General's
Office and the newspaper could face a fine.”
Maybe more folks ought to contact the Attorney General's
Office and complain - or maybe better yet, this legislation ought to be brought
back for re-consideration with stiffer penalties or maybe just outlaw the
unwanted spam from being littered on your property altogether.
To be sure, we have greater problems to solve in the greater
community, but this might be one small step in the correct direction to take
pride in the appearance of our community, protect our neighborhoods from
unwanted corporate spam, obviate the potential for attracting crime and protect
the environment.
I’m just saying.
Kevin E. Dayhoff July 9, 2015
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Compact avoids Do Not Deliver newspaper law
Friday, February 29, 2008
ANNAPOLIS — Four
free-delivery newspapers in Maryland have agreed to crack down on deliveries to
customers who say they don’t want them, pre-empting an attempt to set up what
would have been one of the nation’s first “Do Not Deliver” laws.
The newspapers have
agreed to publish a phone number that homeowners can call to stop deliveries.
The number will be on the second page of each home delivery edition and will be
in a 12-point bold font.
Under the agreement
announced Thursday, the newspapers also said they would increase supervision of
carriers to make sure deliveries stop when people make requests.
“We’re certainly not
out to hurt businesses, but we do need to answer constituents’ concerns,” said
Delegate Tanya Shewell, R-Carroll, who said she plans to withdraw two bills
that would have fined newspaper publishers who failed to meet requests to stop
deliveries within seven days.
Shewell says she
proposed the bills after a flurry of complaints from constituents that the free
newspapers littered their lawns and deliveries didn’t end even after homeowners
requested them to stop.
The agreement applies
only to Carroll County, northwest of Baltimore. But the director of the
Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association said many free
newspapers would comply with provisions to prevent consumer complaints.
“Newspapers don’t want
them going to people who don’t want them and won’t read them,” John “Jack”
Murphy said during a meeting with Shewell.
The papers include The
Examiner, the Carroll County Times (which distributes both free and paid
papers); The Gazette, and Kapp Advertising, which produces a free-delivery
periodical called The Merchandiser.
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"Do Not Deliver" Bill Delivers Controversy
http://www.abc2news.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=4b8a046c-741f-408f-a372-9ac1139b365d.
This is a dead link…
Some say it's a
nuisance and others call it community service. Free newspapers pop up on your
front steps everyday. Now one Maryland lawmaker wants a "Do Not
Deliver" registry.
"I do recycle
them, but some of them do fly away in the yard and go onto the street and down
the gutters," said Essex resident Cathy Benzig.
In fact, a state
delegate from Carroll County goes as far to say the newspapers, that are
delivered with no cost, infringe on the rights of property owners.
Delegate Tanya Shewell
from Carroll County says consumers have the right to say what's on their front
lawn. She wants a phone number printed on newspapers that you can call to
stop delivery.
The bill is modeled
after the national Do Not Call Registry that let's you decide about whether to
receive telemarketing calls at home. Delegate Shewell wants consumers to
have the final say with free newspapers. But some of her colleagues in
Annapolis think the plan will hurt small businesses.
"I think it's
much to do about nothing. It's an intrusion. It's shooting a flea
with an elephant gun. And it's unfair to local publishers who do a
wonderful job for the community," said Del. Pat McDonough, (R) Baltimore
County.
Delegate McDonough
says he's talked to publishers of local papers who say they'll stop delivery
when asked. But we talked to people with failed attempts.
Newspapers would have seven days
to comply with a request. If it's still delivered, consumers could
register a complaint with the Attorney General's Office and the newspaper could
face a fine.
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