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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Recent articles by Adam Bednar at the Carroll County Times


  1. Adam Bednar Carroll County Times

    Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:00 am

    County and government reporter


  2. Public hearing on county tax credit scheduled

    Tuesday, August 3, 2010 6:31 pm

     A public hearing is scheduled for Thursday on the county's proposal to reduce the cap of the Homestead Tax Credit.

  3. Carroll Democrats able to fill vacant ballot slots after deadline

    Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:34 pm

    Carroll County Democrats have fielded three more candidates to help fill out the ballot.

  4. New rule set to begin for candidates in Carroll County

    Saturday, July 31, 2010 10:49 pm

    Starting Tuesday candidates seeking local and state offices in Carroll County will have to include authority lines on their campaign's social media pages on websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

  5. Commissioners consider field along Streaker Road

    Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:41 am

    The Carroll County Board of Commissioners will be available to discuss with residents a proposed practice field on county land in the Eldersburg area during their open community time next week.

  6. Hearing slated on incinerator source reduction, recycling plan

    Sunday, August 8, 2010 12:00 am

    The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority will hold a public meeting to present and review its Preliminary Draft Materials Separation Plan that is part of a proposed waste-to-energy incinerator Frederick and Carroll counties are considering building.

  7. Commissioners grant Mount Airy homes' construction

    Friday, July 30, 2010 12:00 am

    The county is allowing homes on five residential lots to move forward in the Mount Airy area that have been on hold for five years because of their location in an inadequate school area.

  8. Crunch time at demolition derby

    Tuesday, August 3, 2010 12:08 am

    Rows of mangled automobiles lined up outside concrete barriers set up in the upper horse ring at the Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair Monday evening.
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  9. County commissioners consider practice field along Streaker Road

    Friday, August 6, 2010 12:00 am

    The Carroll County Board of Commissioners will be available to discuss with residents a proposed practice field on county land in the Eldersburg area during their open community time next week.

  10. District 1 candidate bows out of county commissioner race

    Wednesday, August 4, 2010 8:28 pm

    George Butler, who was a candidate for the Carroll County Board of Commissioners in District 1, is no longer seeking the office.

  11. NEWS AND NOTES: Campaign finance reports due at midnight

    Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:54 pm

    Campaign finance reports from candidates seeking local and state offices are due by midnight.
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  12. Carroll leaders set politics aside for competition

    Sunday, July 18, 2010 12:00 am

    Three politicians sat at a table covered in paper, knives ready, with a box of a dozen crabs in front of them. At the command of go, all three began yanking the crustaceans out of the box, pulling them apart and separating the meat into a plastic container next to them.
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  13. County considers options to prevent water theft

    Monday, July 19, 2010 9:31 pm

    Carroll County is looking for ways to crack down on water theft.

  14. Carroll County emergency management office short-staffed

    Sunday, July 25, 2010 12:00 am

    County officials say public safety is not suffering, despite the county being short-staffed in the emergency management division of the Office of Public Safety.

  15. Emergency management office short-staffed

    Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:47 am

    County officials say public safety is not suffering, despite the county being short-staffed in the emergency management division of the Office of Public Safety.

  16. Vague rules muddle social media compliance for elections

    Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:00 am

    Ambiguity continues to complicate how election officials determine who is in compliance with new state regulations requiring authority lines on campaign social media websites.

  17. Carroll County Democrat unable to run for commissioner

    Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:00 am

    Carroll County Democrats will be looking for a new candidate to run for Carroll County Board of Commissioners in District 2 following the disqualification of their candidate Monday.

  18. County commissioners adopt lower tax cap

    Friday, August 6, 2010 12:00 am

    Carroll residents could see smaller increases in their property tax bills in the future.

  19. Commissioners adopt lower tax cap

    Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:22 am

    Carroll residents could see smaller increases in their property tax bills in the future.

  20. Commissioner Zimmer denies wrongdoing in trips to senior centers

    Monday, August 9, 2010 11:35 pm

    Commissioner Michael Zimmer said his frequent visits to senior centers in Carroll County aren't campaign-related and don't violate policies prohibiting the centers from holding political events.
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  21. County suspends Critical Farms Program

    Friday, August 13, 2010 12:00 am

    Carroll County is halting its Critical Farms Program until next fiscal year.

  22. Zimmer denies wrongdoing in trips

    Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:40 am

    Commissioner Michael Zimmer said his frequent visits to senior centers in Carroll County aren’t campaign-related and don’t violate policies prohibiting the centers from holding political events.

  23. Carroll-Frederick incinerator plan brings unlikely allies together against it

    Sunday, July 18, 2010 12:00 am

    Toward the end of his presentation last month about the cost of building a waste-to-energy incinerator, Bruce Holstein brought out two large pieces of poster board that listed the "winners" and "losers" if the project is built.
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  24. A timeline of Carroll County's efforts at waste disposal

    Sunday, July 18, 2010 12:00 am

    How to handle the county’s trash has been a persistent problem for Carroll County. It has considered several options for handling its trash. However, the option of Carroll County pursuing a waste-to-energy incinerator has been debated in the county since the 1990s.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Investigative Voice: HAMMERED! — City firefighter suspended after altercation with transsexual

HAMMERED! — City firefighter suspended after altercation with transsexual

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:20
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By Stephen Janis

Depending on which one you believe, Baltimore City firefighter Jerry Majette was either an innocent bystander who got robbed by a Baltimore County transsexual, or the assailant himself who attacked the soon-to-be woman with a hammer after he found her gender ambiguity unappealing.
For now, police believe the woman’s account that Majette pulled a hammer from the transsexual's closet and attacked her after he discovered that she was not a fully functional female, and have since charged Majette with first-degree assault and robbery.
The firefighter has been suspended by the Baltimore City Fire Department.
For his part, Majette, along with firefighter union officials, says he should not be suspended from the department over allegations that have yet to be heard in court.
Read more...  http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5605:news-flash-city-firefighter-suspended-after-altercation-with-transsexual&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/08/investigative-voice-hammered-city.html
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Why Public Employees Are the New Welfare Queens

CITIZEN COHN

Why Public Employees Are the New Welfare Queens


This is an item about why your local fireman or teacher has such a nice retirement package, why you probably don’t, and the way conservatives are using that contrast to advance their broader economic agenda.
Friday’s New York Times had a column about the “coming class war,” focusing on the fact that retirement packages for public employees seem to be a lot more generous than the ones for private employees. This is not a new discussion. Experts and think-tanks have been churning out research on the topic for years. But, thanks in part to the recession, the pension gap has become a major political controversy.
Conservatives say that excessive public employee pensions exemplify the greed of unions (which sought these generous benefits for public employees) and inefficiency of government (which agreed to pay them). If local and state governments are struggling financially, these conservatives say, they should figure out some way to reduce or revoke those promised benefits, rather than come to Washington and beg for help from the taxpayers.
The Senate Republican Policy Committee sums up the right’s mantra succinctly: “No state bailouts should be contemplated until the wages and pensions of public sector employees are brought into line.” Translation: You shouldn't have to give up another cent of your taxes until government stops paying its bureaucrats so damn much...  http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/76884/why-your-fireman-has-better-pension-you


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Arizona Sheriff: Border Patrol Has Retreated from Parts of Border Because It’s ‘Too Dangerous’


Today's Headlines
Monday, August 16, 2010
EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Sheriff: Border Patrol Has Retreated from Parts of Border Because It’s ‘Too Dangerous’
(CNSNews.com) - Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., one of four Arizona counties contiguous with the U.S-Mexico border, said Friday that the U.S. Border Patrol has pulled back from parts of the border in his and neighboring counties because manning those areas has become too dangerous. “And you frankly have Border Patrolmen--and I know this from talking to Border Patrol agents—who will not allow their agents to work on the border because it is too dangerous,” Dever told CNSNews.com in a videotaped interview. “Now what kind of message is that for crying out loud?”
Republicans Fault Obama for Endorsing Mosque Construction Near Ground Zero
(CNSNews.com) – House Republican leader John Boehner (Ohio) says the decision to build a mosque two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in lower Manhattan is “deeply troubling” -- and so is President Barack Obama’s decision to “endorse” the mosque construction. “The fact that someone has the right to do something doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do,” Boehner said in a statement issued on Sunday.

Ground Zero Mosque Controversy, As Viewed From the Muslim World
(CNSNews.com) - Commentators in the Islamic world see “Islamophobia” behind growing opposition in the United States to the planned building of a mosque near the New York City site where al-Qaeda terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in 2001. Here are excerpts from recent editorials and columns published in the Islamic world.

Oversight Report Slams Obama ‘Failure’ on Oil Spill
(CNSNews.com) – A new oversight report from Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the senior Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, details what many analysts see as the failures of the Obama administration in dealing with the Gulf oil spill. “President Obama and Administration officials failed in several instances to remove regulatory and bureaucratic impediments, and to ensure that proper and adequate resources were available to address the BP disaster,” the report states.

Prop 8 Ruling Could Criminalize Christianity, Leaders Warn
(CNSNews.com) – Religious leaders warn that if an Aug. 6 ruling by a federal judge on same-sex marriage is upheld, it could wind up putting a gag on Christians speaking out about homosexuality – a gag that a top Southern Baptist leader says his denomination will not accept.

Even the Poor Are Abandoning Obama, According to Gallup Poll Data
(CNSNews.com) - In every week of his presidency until now, Barack Obama has enjoyed a majority approval rating in the Gallup Poll from people earning less than $2,000 per month. But that changed in the Gallup survey conducted from Aug. 2-8, when only 49 percent of Americans in that income bracket said they approve of the job Obama is doing. This marks the first time since Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, when Americans in all four of the income brackets reported in Gallup’s weekly survey of presidential approval gave Obama less than 50 percent approval.

U.S. Military’s Relief Effort in Pakistan Prompts Suspicions About Its Intentions
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. military is pressing ahead in its efforts to support Pakistan’s army in bringing relief to millions of people affected by the worst flooding in the country’s history, undeterred by suspicions about its intentions. “We’re not here to conduct anything other than humanitarian assistance and disaster relief,” U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Michael Nagata told reporters in a conference call from Pakistan. Some conspiracy theories say that U.S. forces deployed in Pakistan could also be used against terrorists.
NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP
COMMENTARY

Sensitivities 
By Rich Galen
It seems that every time we turn around, America is being told that we have somehow run afoul of some precept or another of Muslim sensibilities and, because religious freedom is very important to us, we try to do better. It cannot be lost on the backers of this Mosque that it is, if not cheek-by-jowl to Ground Zero, it is close enough to be seen by many Americans - even those of good will toward Muslims - as mocking the attacks of 9/11. Manhattan is a big place. Put the Mosque somewhere else and quit insulting us by asking us to pretend that the proposed location is just happenstance.

How Obama Is Locking Up Our Land
By Michelle Malkin
Have you heard of the “Great Outdoors Initiative”? Chances are, you haven’t. But across the country, White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. It’s another stealthy power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life.

Barack Obama’s Kool-Aid for America
It is increasingly evident with every passing day that Barack Obama is America’s Jim Jones, undermining the U.S. Constitution while urging Americans to drink his Kool-Aid lies. Need a reminder? Here are a few:

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