Tuesday, December 31, 2013

At Union Bridge Fire Hall for the wedding of Jacie Mathias and Perry Jones

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At Union Bridge Fire Hall for the wedding of Jacie Mathias and Perry Jones

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund: Latest Memorial Fund Research Bulletin

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund: Latest Memorial Fund Research Bulletin: http://www.nleomf.org/facts/research-bulletins/

2013 End-of-Year Law Enforcement Fatalities Report

According to preliminary data compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 111 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2013. This is a eight percent decrease from 2012.

Read the 2013 End-of-Year Law Enforcement Fatalities Report (published 12/30/13)

Read the press release. (published 12/30/13) Read more: http://www.nleomf.org/facts/research-bulletins/

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How to disable Office 2013 start screen by Rick Broida at PC World

How to disable Office 2013's start screen | PCWorld:

Rick Broida @justrick Mar 20, 2013

There's a lot to like about the new Office 2013. Heck, some might argue that Outlook alone is worth the price of admission.

One thing that bothers me, however, is the startup screen that appears when you launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. It's a nice addition, and a quick way to access recent documents or create a new one using a template, but it's not how I like to work.

Fortunately, it's fairly easy to configure Office to bypass that screen for the aforementioned three programs. Here's how, using Word as an example: … Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2031432/how-to-disable-office-2013s-start-screen.html

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Monday, December 30, 2013

How To Rip DVDs with VLC

How To Rip DVDs with VLC:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2696/how-to-rip-dvds-with-vlc/

"How To Rip DVDs with VLC

Yesterday we took a look at the new feature in VLC 1.0 which allows you to record DVDs to your computer. There is also an overlooked feature in VLC that allows you to rip your DVDs as well. Here we will take a look at how to rip DVD movies with VLC for Windows.

Note: This feature should work with VLC versions 0.9.6 and up.

Ripping a DVD with VLC

Load up the DVD you want to rip and start up VLC. Then under Media click on Convert / Save." ... http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2696/how-to-rip-dvds-with-vlc/

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Carroll's Christmas celebrations tempered by news of war, Great Depression

#CarrollCounty #Christmas celebrations tempered by news of war, Great Depression

@SunWestminster Columnist @kevindayhoff Many years ago, most of the newspaper accounts about Christmas in Carroll County were not published until after Christmas. Most of the advertisements for Christmas did not appear until well after the first day of December. Christmas was celebrated for a short period of time then folks quickly went back to the business of the day.

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News from The Hill: Five Senate races to watch By Alexandra Jaffe

Read the story here.

Democrats and Republicans are amassing enormous war chests for a midterm battle that will decide who controls the Senate for the remainder of President Obama’s term.

Republicans need a net gain of six seats to reclaim the Senate majority, and are gunning for Democratic incumbents in conservative-leaning states like Arkansas, Alaska, North Carolina, West Virginia and Louisiana.

Democrats are mostly playing defense, but see a few opportunities to peel away seats from the GOP column. Read the story here.

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

PRUDEN: Duck Dynasty's Robertson family teaches Hollywood a lesson - Washington Times

PRUDEN: Duck Dynasty's Robertson family teaches Hollywood a lesson - Washington Times: "PRUDEN: Duck Dynasty’s Robertson family teaches Hollywood a lesson

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/26/pruden-youve-got-to-know-the-territory/

By Wesley Pruden Thursday, December 26, 2013"The uproar over “Duck Dynasty” should be studied forever in the business schools

as a priceless teaching exercise in marketing quackery. Television executives are so highly paid because they’re supposed to be so smart. Rarely have so many smart guys been so out to lunch.

The noisy row over the A&E cable network

suspending Phil Robertson, the head duck, was mostly not about free speech — the network had a right to suspend him, depending on what was in the contract — but about how low the network wanted to kowtow to the lavender lobby, disrespect for religious belief, and whether it wanted to put at risk its No. 1 show. This is where the A&E suits made their incredible miscalculation, based on gross ignorance of who and what they were dealing with. An office boy would have known better.

“A&E,” says Lisa de Moraes, the influential television critic for the Deadline/Hollywood website, “has been dazedly dog-paddling since the interview [in GQ magazine] and its hit show suddenly stopped quacking like all those other homespun reality series on TV and began Bible-thumping like the religious parable [the controversy] actually is.”

.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/26/pruden-youve-got-to-know-the-territory/..

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Cheerleader-to-soldier: Philly Eagles girl turns in pom-poms for rifle

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Our Saviour Lutheran Church www.oslc-warrenton.org Warrenton VA

Ronald LeRoy Rognlien, 61, traveled the world through work and service

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/bal-ronald-leroy-rognlien-obituary-20131220,0,3219938.story

Warrenton (Va.) resident had family and community ties to Carroll County

Ronald LeRoy Rognlien, 61, of Warrenton Virginia and Westminster Maryland http://tinyurl.com/mrkubzk

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http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/12/ronald-leroy-rognlien-61-of-warrenton.html

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2013/12/ronald-leroy-rognlien-61-traveled-world.html

Ronald LeRoy Rognlien, 61, a retired defense contractor and world traveler with family ties to Westminster, died unexpectedly from a heart attack at his home in Warrenton, Va., on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013.

Born in 1952 in Baraboo, Wis.; he was the son of the late Stanley LeRoy Rognlien and the late Arlene Doris Jacobson Rognlien. His father served on submarines in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific, then worked throughout his career with Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America. As a result, the family lived all over America.

After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University, Mr. Rognlien followed in his father’s footsteps and served for 32 years as a defense contractor with the intelligence community -- a job that took him to some 68 countries over the years. His particular field of expertise was computer science and communications.

Mr. Rognlien married Marian Babylon in 1982 at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Westminster.

After retirement, Mr. Rognlien continued serving others through volunteer and mission service. He again traveled the world, this time for recreation, and spent time in Westminster with his extended family. He enjoyed fishing in Alaska, playing math and word games like Sudoku, and drove the Alcan Highway and across the United States several times.

In addition to his training as an electrical engineer, he was handy with tools and home improvement projects. He was a veteran of many mission trips with Taylorsville United Methodist Church, helping those who had suffered from natural disasters. Those mission included trips to Biloxi, Miss. after Hurricane Katrina and New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy.

He volunteered at numerous Carroll County civic and community functions. He was handy with a chainsaw and was among the Taylorsville “wood chuckers,” who cut firewood for the needy. He was a serious student of golf.

The family will receive friends at the Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home, at 91 Willis Street, Westminster, MD on Monday, December 23, from 7 to 9 p.m.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, December 28 at 11 a.m. at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 6194 Dumfries Rd., Warrenton, VA; with visitation starting at 10 a.m. The Rev. Michael Church will officiate with a eulogy by The Rev. Sarah Dorrance.

Inurnment will be private at the family mausoleum at Krider’s Cemetery, Westminster, Md.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to People Helping People, 34 Beckham Street, Warrenton, VA 20186.

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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of AK-47, Dies at 94 - NYTimes.com

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Creator of AK-47, Dies at 94 - NYTimes.com: "Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov with a model of the AK-47 in 1997. By C. J. CHIVERS Published: December 23, 2013"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/mikhail-kalashnikov-creator-of-soviet-era-ak-47-weapon-is-dead-at-age-94.html

Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the arms designer credited by the Soviet Union with creating the AK-47, the first in a series of rifles and machine guns that would indelibly associate his name with modern war and become the most abundant firearms ever made, died on Monday in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, where he lived. He was 94... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/mikhail-kalashnikov-creator-of-soviet-era-ak-47-weapon-is-dead-at-age-94.html

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Grading the Big Four: How did your wireless carrier rate in 2013? | TechHive

Grading the Big Four: How did your wireless carrier rate in 2013? | TechHive: "
Evan Dashevsky @haldash Dec 17, 2013 3:00 AM"

http://www.techhive.com/article/2079841/grading-the-big-four-how-did-your-wireless-carrier-rate-in-2013.html#tk.nl_advis

The big wireless carriers have few qualms about charging customers for sending and receiving texts, despite the fact that providing the service costs them virtually nothing.

Your carrier is ripping you off.

And it may even be putting your life at risk. Law enforcement has pleaded with manufacturers to include device “kill switches” to thwart the tsunami of smartphone-driven street crime. But most phones don’t have a kill switch. Why? Because including one would eat into profits the carriers make from selling device insurance. Yup.

Though the carriers clearly have no respect for their customers, they do have to compete for our business. So let’s take a look back at 2013 to see which companies made things a little bit easier for consumers and which introduced unnecessary annoyances into our lives.... http://www.techhive.com/article/2079841/grading-the-big-four-how-did-your-wireless-carrier-rate-in-2013.html#tk.nl_advis

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The Nativity Scene at St. John Catholic Church for Christmas Day services

#KED #Westminster

Communion at Taylorsville United Methodist Church for Christmas Eve

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Communion at Taylorsvile United Methodist Church This is my body...

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Monday, December 23, 2013

When a gift of oranges was a Christmas treat in Westminster [Eagle Archives]

When a gift of oranges was a Christmas treat in Westminster Baltimore Sun by Kevin Dayhoff

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-1222-20131222,0,2400266.story

When a gift of oranges was a Christmas treat in Westminster [Eagle ... Baltimore Sun by Kevin Dayhoff, December 23, 2013. The Christmas season has always been a special time in...

@SunWestminster: Columnist @kevindayhoff addresses Westminster #Christmas traditions in this week's Eagle Archives http://bsun.md/18HM1X2

The Christmas season has always been a special time in Westminster. For generations; long before our current tradition of an electric light parade right after Thanksgiving, the city came together for a community celebration and a parade called the Christmas Treat…

[…]

Times have changed. The center of town is now considered to be the park at Locust Lane. Government does not dare use the words "Christmas" or "Hanukkah." And technology, not fruit, is at the top of the Christmas list for most folks. In my childhood years in Westminster in the 1950s, our favorite fruit was not an "Apple" computer. A gift of oranges was considered to be particularly special…

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Ronald LeRoy Rognlien, 61, traveled the world through work and service

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/bal-ronald-leroy-rognlien-obituary-20131220,0,3219938.story

Mr. Rognlien married Marian Babylon in 1982 at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Westminster.

The family will receive friends at the Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home, at 91 Willis Street, Westminster, MD on Monday, December 23, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Inurnment will be private at the family mausoleum at Krider’s Cemetery, Westminster, Md.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to People Helping People, 34 Beckham Street, Warrenton, VA 20186.

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Ronald LeRoy Rognlien, 61, traveled the world through work and service

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/bal-ronald-leroy-rognlien-obituary-20131220,0,3219938.story

Warrenton (Va.) resident had family and community ties to Carroll County

Ronald LeRoy Rognlien, 61, of Warrenton Virginia and Westminster Maryland http://tinyurl.com/mrkubzk

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Mikulski, Cardin, Hoyer, Edwards stand united behind proposed Greenbelt site as the best location For A New FBI headquarters

Entire Maryland Congressional Delegation has voiced support for Prince George’s location; Sent joint letter to FBI Director and GSA Administrator

Prince George’s County Executive today submitted proposal for Greenbelt, MD location to meet GSA December 17 deadline

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin along with Representatives Steny Hoyer and Donna F. Edwards (all D-Md.) today voiced their continued strong support for a proposed site in Greenbelt, Maryland to serve as the future home of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As a leading candidate for the new location for the FBI headquarters, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker today submitted a proposal to meet the GSA’s December 17 deadline.

“We stand firmly behind Prince George’s County as the right choice for the new headquarters of the FBI and support County Executive Baker’s proposal for the Greenbelt site. Prince George’s County has the ability to donate, at no cost to the federal government, the proposed location that meets the size requirements and is located directly adjacent to a Metro station,” Team Maryland said. “An honest analysis of the cost of operations, security, convenience of location for staff, transportation options, and the promotion of regional equity in federal facility distribution should make the proposed Greenbelt, Maryland site the choice location for FBI.

This project would bring thousands of jobs to the County, boost our local economy and generate additional revenues for our community. As GSA continues to move forward with the process of selecting a site, we will be working closely together to advocate for bringing this project, and the new economic opportunities that will accompany it, to Prince George's County.”

Earlier this year, Senators Mikulski and Cardin along with the entire Maryland Congressional delegation, including Representatives Steny H. Hoyer, Elijah E. Cummings, Chris Van Hollen, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, John P. Sarbanes, Donna F. Edwards, Andy Harris and John Delaney, sent a letter to the heads of the FBI and GSA that strongly support a site in Prince George’s County, Maryland, for the future home of the FBI. Their letter notes a Maryland state report that found 43 percent of FBI employees call Maryland home, more than any other jurisdiction. A copy of that letter is available here.

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Monday, December 16, 2013

Enjoying Westminster Christmas Tree Locust Lane park in the historic downtown

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Lonely is the runner that runs in the middle of a cold-cold #Westminster Md eve

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Gov. Bob Ehrlich will join Secretary Larry Hogan of Change Maryland to Headline Business Panel on Dec. 17

Gov. Bob Ehrlich to Headline Business Panel on Dec. 17

Gov. Bob Ehrlich will join Secretary Larry Hogan of Change Maryland to Headline Business Panel on Dec. 17

Obama's Desperate Course Corrections

Gov. Bob Ehrlich's Op-Ed from Sunday

Fundraiser with Gov. Ehrlich and Sec. Hogan is Tomorrow

Marylanders for Joe Getty

December 16, 2013

Gov. Bob Ehrlich writes a weekly opinion column that appears on Sunday in the Baltimore Sun.

His commentary on the implementation of Obamacare was published yesterday as "Obama's Desperate Course Correction" (Click Here)

Tickets are still available for our fundraiser tomorrow (see flyer below and our website CLICK HERE), which features a book-signing by Gov. Ehrlich. You can also receive a complimentary author-inscribed copy of America: Hope for Change by making a contribution to our campaign.

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Marylanders for Joe Getty December 4, 2013

Dec. 17 Fundraiser Update:

Gov. Bob Ehrlich will join Secretary Larry Hogan of Change Maryland at the "Maryland Business Climate" luncheon on Dec. 17(for information or to register online click here).

Gov. Ehrlich will talk about national issues that are impacting Maryland's business climate including the rollout of Obamacare.

In a recently released book, "America: Hope for Change," Gov. Ehrlich explores the causes and remedies of the seven most difficult issues confronting (and confounding) our culture and country. Autographed copies will be available for a $35 contribution to Marylanders for Joe Getty.

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Maryland's Business Climate

Improving Business Competitiveness Is Topic of Dec. 17 Fundraiser

With Featured Speakers Gov. Bob Ehrlich and Sec. Larry Hogan

Marylanders for Joe Getty

December 6, 2013

When I served as policy director for Gov. Bob Ehrlich, we placed a strong emphasis in our legislative package each year on improving Maryland's business climate. The Ehrlich Administration wanted to make sure that companies throughout the United States knew that Maryland was "Open for Business."

We worked hard to insure that Maryland provided an excellent business environment so that existing businesses could thrive and to encourage out-of-state businesses to relocate their operations here.

My fundraiser "Maryland's Business Climate" on Dec. 17 will include Gov. Bob Ehrlich and Secretary Larry Hogan of Change Maryland to discuss trends and issues facing Maryland if we are to improve our state's competitiveness with our neighboring states (see flyer on reverse).

One of the keys to improving the business climate is tax policy. Gov. Ehrlich drew a line in the sand against increasing Maryland's personal income tax although this was a high priority for the Democrat leadership in the legislature from 2003-06. The Ehrlich Administration's economic development policy also included measures to reduce regulations and improve Maryland's competitiveness.

Our efforts were very successful based upon The Tax Foundation's annual "State Business Tax Climate Index." Under Gov. Ehrlich's business and tax policies, Maryland moved from 31st to 22nd best business climate in the nation.

Unfortunately, over the last seven years, Maryland's business climate ranking has plummeted. At the peak of the O'Malley Brown Administration tax increases in 2009-10, Maryland was the sixth worst business climate in the country. In the recently released 2014 rankings, Maryland marginally improved to the ninth worst.

The states in the bottom ten suffer from the same afflictions: complex, non-neutral taxes with comparatively high rates. The leading factor in Maryland's decline is our 46th highest individual income tax rates. Being the only state in the nation to adopt a "rain tax" further compounds Maryland's poor reputation among the nation's top businesses.

In a recent presentation to the Maryland Rural Counties Coalition, economist Anirban Basu said that such rankings do not tell the true story. In his experience working within the nation's business community, the word-of-mouth perceptions of Maryland's bad business climate are far worse than the rankings show.

Thus it is no surprise that Texas Gov. Rick Perry saw Maryland as easy pickings in an economic development advertising campaign to lure Maryland businesses to the "Lone Star" state. "We pray for rain in Texas," Perry said. "They tax rain in Maryland."

I recently accepted a change in committee assignments to Senate Budget & Tax so that I can have a role in influencing state tax policy. I invite you to join us on Dec. 17 as we explore many options available to improve Maryland's business climate.

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America: Hope for Change

Gov. Bob Ehrlich to Autograph His New Book at Our Dec. 17 Fundraiser

Marylanders for Joe Getty

December 10, 2013

In his book released last month America: Hope for Change, Gov. Bob Ehrlich sets forth a conservative political agenda to set our country back on the "right" track instead of the "wrong" track.

By stressing the individual freedoms and self-autonomy that has made America great, Gov. Ehrlich provides an analysis of our national fiscal crisis and debt, healthcare delivery, job creation, social security and national security. Through his experiences as a Congressman and Governor of Maryland, Ehrlich provides insights that focus on policy solutions to strengthen American culture and economic opportunity.

Gov. John H. Sununu, former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff under Pres. George H.W. Bush, describes the book as follows: "Bob Ehrlich makes the case for why America must, aggressively and quickly, fight to reverse the growth and excessive intrusion of the federal government into the lives of all citizens. He makes a clear case that the basic strengths that made America the land of opportunity are being destroyed. The Governor does a great job in defining the problem, the subtleties of the erosion of the system, and then proposes an agenda to fix the system."

Our fundraiser on Dec. 17, 2013 will feature a book-signing by Gov. Ehrlich. You can also receive a complimentary author-inscribed copy of America: Hope for Change by making a contribution to our campaign.

Please join us on Dec. 17, 2013 with speakers Gov. Bob Ehrlich and Secretary Larry Hogan of Change Maryland.

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The Long-Term Effects of Obamacare

Gov. Bob Ehrlich's Chapter on Obamacare Provides Insights

On Pres. Obama's Healthcare "Agenda"

Marylanders for Joe Getty

December 10, 2013

The current Obamacare debate being played out daily in the national media focuses on the failed mechanics of websites and apathetic enrollment numbers. But what are the long-term effects of Obamacare?

In the chapter "Securing a Healthcare Agenda, Not Quality Healthcare" from his book America: Hope for Change, Gov. Bob Ehrlich provides insights on what Americans may face in the coming years as Obamacare becomes the rule of the land in local hospitals and doctors' offices.

"It is impossible to predict the nature and extent of the regulatory burden represented by a fully implemented Obamacare. One outcome is acknowledged by all sides, however: many of the important decisions will not be made by the democratically elected representatives of the people. Instead, they will be issued by an army of unelected, unaccountable regulators. Such is the legacy of the Obama administrative state . . . the newly empowered Obama bureaucracy enjoys degree of power over the personal decision making authority of ordinary people never before seen in our history," is just one observation made by Gov. Ehrlich.

Our fundraiser on Dec. 17 will feature a book-signing by Gov. Ehrlich. You can also receive a complimentary author-inscribed copy of America: Hope for Change by making a contribution to our campaign.

Please join us on Dec. 17 with speakers Gov. Bob Ehrlich and Secretary Larry Hogan of Change Maryland.

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Upcoming events:

Tues. Dec. 17, 2013

"Maryland's Business Climate" - Fundraiser Luncheon

Hosted by Marylanders for Joe Getty

12 noon - Best Western, 451 WMC Drive, Westminster

For information: www.senatorgetty.com or contact Russ Vriezen at (443) 536-4700 or russ@senatorgetty.com

Thurs. Dec. 19, 2013

Carroll County Chamber of Commerce - Local Authors Book Signing

Senator Getty will be signing two local history books: "Carroll's Heritage" and

"Excerpts from the Engine of Liberty and Uniontown Advertiser"

3 to 6 p.m.

Wed. Jan. 8, 2013

Maryland General Assembly 2014 Session Begins

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Barry Rascovar: Evaluating Ex-Corrections Chief Gary Maynard

Evaluating Ex-Corrections Chief Gary Maynard

http://politicalmaryland.com/2013/12/16/evaluating-ex-corrections-chief-gary-maynard/ Leave a reply By Barry Rascovar Dec. 16, 2013

NO GOOD DEED goes unpunished, they say. Retired Maryland Corrections Chief Gary Maynard can attest to that.

Had Maynard not turned to the FBI for help in investigating gang smuggling and complicity by prison guards at the Baltimore Detention Center, he’d be retiring with plaudits all around for his seven-year performance.

Instead, Maynard walks away with a mixed record.

Undone by the FBI

In 2011, Maynard’s department uncovered massive drug smuggling, sex and gang activity at the city jail that involved guards.

He could have arrested a few people at that time, called a press conference so the governor could gloat about the crackdown and ignored the deeper, more troubling problem — an out-of-control Detention Center filled with guards who were aiding inmate gang members.

But that’s not Maynard’s style.

Gary Maynard

A career prison manager — and retired brigadier general – he insisted on getting to the bottom of this problem. So he reached out to the FBI for assistance.

He got help, all right. What he didn’t expect was grandstanding.

The FBI held a flashy press conference to detail the outrageous criminal activity the bureau had uncovered.

But it failed to stress that Maynard had requested the two-year investigation. Instead, Maynard became the fall guy.