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Saturday, March 19, 2011

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Explore Carroll: Commissioners help mark National Red Cross Month




http://www.explorecarroll.com/ — Commissioners help mark National Red Cross Month Local chapter takes part in ceremony in Westminster By Kevin Dayhoff  http://twitpic.com/4aw7nr

The Board of County Commissioners has proclaimed March as National Red Cross Month, and took part in a ceremony March 10 with the Carroll County Red Cross and the American Red Cross of Central Maryland.

“Every day, through employees of the Central Maryland Chapter, local disaster action volunteers and board members here in Carroll County, the American Red Cross is there to save the day when disaster strikes,” Red Cross spokeswoman Danielle Lueking said.

Lueking said there are some 40 registered volunteers in Carroll County…  http://www.explorecarroll.com/community/5264/commissioners-help-mark-national-red-cross-month/

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

This week in The Tentacle http://www.thetentacle.com/


This week in The Tentacle http://www.thetentacle.com/

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Living, As It Is
Patricia A. Kelly
The playground is on a rise next to the brick school and the park. The wind is blowing, chilly, but hinting of the Spring to come.

Maryland and the Irish Guv
Chris Cavey
There once was a Guv named O’Malley
Whose political career did not dally.
‘Cause promises he made
And surpluses he’d raid
In hope no taxes he would tally.

A Proper Perspective
Derek Shackelford
March Madness has begun. That is the given name to the next three weeks of the college basketball season. This moniker is provided because of the passion that coaches, fans and players display over the games that will be played.


Wednesday, March 16, 2011

David Broder, A Reporter’s Reporter
Kevin E. Dayhoff

David S. Broder, 81, the well-respected dean of letters for The Washington Post for over four decades, has died from complications of diabetes.

Mr. Boh No Mo
Norman M. Covert
“Mr. Boh” gave Maryland a pretty good beer and the moniker, “The Land of Pleasant Living.” In the good old days Baltimore had the Colts as perennial contendahs; the blue collar Orioles on 33rd street; Bethlehem Steel; the B&O and seafood dives that gave the inner harbor character.

America and China
Tom McLaughlin
Kuching, Malaysian Borneo – The militarization of China, one of the many passing comments usually buried as an aside in the international commentaries, brings forth the possibility of territorial acquisitions through conquest. There are several parallels now in play with the Japanese tsunami in the early 1940’s.


Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The New Joe McCarthy
Roy Meachum
When I was a freshman at Georgetown, Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy launched his version of a crusade against communists.

Memorization, Christie & Shifting Politics
Nick Diaz
This push toward so-called “21st Century Skills” – as if educators, of all people, knew in 1910 what skills would be required of students for the next 90 years – would be relatively harmless, outside the immense expenditure of time and money, if certain advocates didn't minimize actual content knowledge.

A New Tax Code?
Shawn Burns
The deadline to file taxes is quickly approaching. And, as is usual, new forms are accompanied by page after page of explanations on how, when and why one form or another may or may not be needed.


Monday, March 14, 2011

Random Observations – Part One
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
From the bottom to the top, this has been a fairly significant couple of weeks – from Frederick’s City Hall, to Winchester Hall, all the way to Annapolis and Washington.

A Dream Team
Michael Kurtianyk
Whenever I hear the phrase “Dream Team,” I think of the great 1992 Men’s Olympic Basketball Team. It included 10 Hall of Fame players* and three Hall of Fame coaches.** The team itself was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame – that’s how good it was. They won by an average of nearly 44 points a game.

Japan's Meltdown
Steven R. Berryman
Four days ago our violent universe proved that we still live on “the restless earth.” Many thanks to my college professors and to science fiction writers for at least softening the ground on these topics, allowing us to grasp the scope of disasters.


Friday, March 11, 2011

Spring, Come On!
Roy Meachum
Winter couldn’t have been worse behind my yellow door on North Market Street. My age takes much of the blame. Some friends didn’t help.

Waking Up to Reality
Joe Charlebois
Last November’s election has exposed the fact that there are few serious legislators on the left side of the aisle.


Thursday, March 10, 2011

That Rumbling is Just Gas!
Norman M. Covert
It isn’t love and certainly this “rumbly in my tumbly” can probably be attributed to gas. Not that kind, Bubba, it’s the stuff Jed Clampett found while shooting at some food. The voice-over called it “bubbling crude … black gold.”

To Agree or Not? – That’s The Question
Amanda Haddaway
The Supreme Court ruled on March 2, 2010, that members of the Westboro Baptist Church have a constitutionally-protected right to protest at military funerals. The vote was 8-1, with Justice Samuel Alito dissenting.


Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Charlie Sheen and Disposable Women
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The recent media frenzy over Hollywood idol and role model Charlie Sheen has once again moved my threshold of amazement for contemporary society’s ability to reward bad behavior.

Pay Attention to Your Body
Tom McLaughlin
Kuching, Malaysian Borneo – I knew something was wrong but I didn’t know what. My classrooms are located on the fourth floor and the climb up on the cement steps has been a bit rough. I know I am fit enough to wander the jungle. but cement and my feet just don’t mesh.


Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Eternal Catholic Scandal
Roy Meachum
My first Frederick column on sexual assaults in the Roman Catholic Church appeared 20 years ago. It was in defense of Archbishop Joseph Bernardin whom I knew in Washington.

Just Who Is A Stakeholder Here?
Farrell Keough
So, what is going on in Annapolis these days? Most people know the budget is in desperate straits. Some people are even aware there were votes on Gay Marriage recently.

Can The Hopefuls Take The Heat?
Earl 'Rocky' Mackintosh
This past week the Frederick Board of County Commissioners whittled the list of 50 applicants for the proposed charter government writing board down to 15 people.


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An important announcement from the publisher of The New York Times

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

South Carroll High School student charged with possession of fireworks at school

By Kevin Dayhoff

3/15/11

Carroll County Maryland - State Deputy Fire Marshalls have charged a 14-year-old male juvenile with possession of fireworks at South Carroll High School.

Classmates alerted school officials about the student’s possession of the fireworks on school property, according to a press release from Maryland State Fire Marshall’s office.

“Staff reacted quickly and brought the juvenile before the Vice Principal,” said the Fire Marshall’s office.  The student “remained in the school office while awaiting the arrival of his parents and the Office of the State Fire Marshal.”

The juvenile was charged with Possession of a Destructive Device and Possession of Fireworks without a Permit,” and released to the custody of his parents pending adjudication by the Carroll County Department of Juvenile Services.



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St. Patrick’s Day happenings in Westminster Maryland

This is what is happening on Main Street in Downtown Westminster Maryland in honor of the patron saint of Ireland – St. Patrick – this week.  [20110317 sdosm Main St St Patrick Day Happenings 3 17]

St. Patrick’s Day, Westminster, Maryland, Carroll County, restaurants

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Kevin Dayhoff - The Tentacle: A Tribute to David Broder, A Reporter’s Reporter

March 16, 2011  http://tinyurl.com/4r4ahfv

David Broder, A Reporter’s Reporter
David S. Broder, 81, the well-respected dean of letters for The Washington Post for over four decades, has died from complications of diabetes.

In an era when too many writers shoot from the hip with commentary that is only rivaled by a bar room conversation with an inebriated unicorn, Mr. Broder always seemed to have a certain depth and gravitas to his work.

A prolific writer, The New York Times noted “Mr. Broder, whose last column was published February 6, was often called the dean of the Washington press corps and just as often described as a reporter’s reporter, a shoe-leather guy who always got on one more airplane, knocked on one more door, made one more phone call.

“He would travel more than 100,000 miles a year to write more than a quarter-million words. In short, he composed first drafts of history for an awful lot of history.”

In spite of that level of productivity, in the week since his death, I have been a bit unnerved by how many of my colleagues are not aware of the life and work of such a distinguished journalist, who seemed to effortlessly sit on either side of the typewriter as a hard-news newspaperman and a political commentator.

Although many could not recall his work at The Washington Post, it was only after I called attention to his numerous appearances on Washington Weekand Meet the Press that Mr. Broder came to life...  http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4284

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Talking Heads - Mind

Science won’t change you
Looks like I can’t change you
I try to talk to you, to make things clear
but you’re not even listening to me
And it comes directly from my heart to you…

I need something to change your mind.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Daily Record: Ehrlich joins D.C. law firm King & Spalding

Ehrlich joins D.C. law firm King & Spalding

POSTED: 8:18 AM TUE, MARCH 15, 2011
BY DANNY JACOBS
DAILY RECORD LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER
Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is shifting his focus from the state to the nation’s capital.
Ehrlich has joined King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C., office as senior counsel in the firm’s government advocacy and policy practice, four years after founding the Baltimore branch of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice with several members of his gubernatorial team...  http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/03/15/ehrlich-joins-d-c-law-firm-king-spalding/

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Explore Carroll: Might Civil War have been averted without Lincoln?

Explore Carroll: Might Civil War have been averted without Lincoln?

Might Civil War have been averted without Lincoln?

Speaker at CCC conference follows historic speculation

By Bob Allen

Posted 3/13/11
"It is too easy for historians to merely ratify the past and suggest what happened had to happen."

-- Historian Gabor Boritt, author of "Why the Civil War Came"

In an era of political correctness, author and Civil War historian Lawrence Denton knows he's apt to raise hackles whenever he, figuratively speaking, knocks Abraham Lincoln off his marble pedestal.

Or when he ventures into the realm of what might have been, as prompted by the quote, above, from retired Gettysburg College teacher and historian Gabor Boritt.

"Much of history nowadays is dominated by political correctness," said Denton, a retired educator and administrator who now lives in Oxford.

"My talk is not."

On March 19, at Carroll Community College's annual conference, "Maryland and the Civil War: A Regional Perspective," Denton will talk about the controversial theories he developed in his 2009 book, "William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis: The Effort to Prevent Civil War.".. http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5240/might-civil-war-have-been-averted-without-lincoln/


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Woman arrested in Carroll County court house bomb threat case

Woman arrested in Carroll County court house bomb threat case


Courts closed for several hours; no bomb found

By Kevin Dayhoff
Maryland State Police have arrested a 30-year-old Westminster woman and charged her in connection with a bomb threat phoned in to the Carroll County Circuit and District courts on Monday... http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/5259/woman-arrested-carroll-county-court-house-bomb-threat-case/

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