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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Sen. Allan Kittleman Announces Candidacy for Howard County Executive in 2014 - by Sen. Joe Getty

Sen. Allan Kittleman Announces Candidacy for Howard County Executive in 2014

Marylanders for Joe Getty

By Sen. Joe Getty

June 12, 2013

Yesterday, I attended the announcement by Sen. Allan Kittleman that he will not seek re-election to the Maryland Senate in 2014 but instead will seek the position of County Executive for Howard County.

On a beautiful, sunny June afternoon, a large crowd of supporters stood at the lakefront pavilion of Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia with Allan and his family. It was a bittersweet occasion for me because I regret losing Allan as a colleague in the Senate.

Allan is one of the most creative and innovative legislators in Annapolis. I have enjoyed working with him both as a staff member and as a legislator as he has worked to address Maryland's most challenging issues. His sharp legal mind and excellent skills at planning legislative strategy were a complement to his strong presence in Senate floor debates. He will be sorely missed in the Maryland Senate

It was an honor for Sen. David Brinkley and me to stand at the announcement yesterday and endorse Allan for the next step in his political career. David and I had the great fortune to learn about the intricacies of legislative process from Allan's father, Bob Kittleman. In 1995, as freshman Delegates, we served with Bob on the House Commerce and Government Matters Committee and he quickly became our mentor.

Long-time Oriole fans like to talk about the "Oriole Way" of hard work and stressing the fundamentals of baseball. In the mid-1990s, David and I learned the "Kittleman Way" of legislative process.

Bob taught us to develop our own strong moral compass to guide our decision-making and to never veer off-course from that compass when casting votes, debating or interacting with constituents.

Allan is most certainly his father's child. He has learned over his career as Howard County Councilman and State Senator to follow a tried-and-true moral compass in approaching the complex problems facing state and local government today.

I've seen Allan first-hand deal with difficult issues in the Maryland Senate. First and foremost, he always bases his decisions on what he believes is truly best for his constituents. Moreover, Allan never chose the easier path of political expediency, but instead he always chose the course that he felt was right and honest to the citizens of Howard County and Maryland.

There is no doubt that Allan's style of direct and honest leadership will provide the best direction for Howard County's future.


I am proud to call Allan my friend; I am proud to call Allan my Senate colleague; and soon, I will be especially proud to call him - Howard County Executive.
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013

A Special Announcement from Maryland State Senator Allan Kittleman

A Special Announcement from Maryland State Senator Allan Kittleman
June 4, 2013

Senator Allan Kittleman
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
News from the Maryland
State Senate

Greetings!
        

A Special Announcement
           
Please join me next Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 4:00 pm for a Special Announcement at Clyde's Outdoor Pavilion, 10221 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, MD 21044.

Light refreshments will be provided. Although there is no charge for this event, please RSVP on Facebook orto Lisa Marr at lisaEmarr@gmail.com or 410-960-2742 if you plan to attend.   

Following the announcement, please join me, my family and supporters at the home of Howard and Kathy Rensin for a Celebration Fundraiser. Tickets are just $100/person or $150/couple with sponsorships available. Please see the PDF link or this Facebook event for more details.


            I look forward to seeing you all there!





                                                   Allan
  




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3030 Kittleman Lane
West Friendship, MD 21794
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Removal of American flag from Woodbine traffic circle sparks patriotic rally


State highway decision riles neighbors, leads to large showing of troop support


As the sun began to set over western Howard County on Dec. 23, dozens of people standing around and driving through the traffic circle at Woodbine Road and Old Frederick Road in Woodbine gazed up toward the sky, their eyes focused on a massive, billowing American flag hanging above the circle from the long arm of a crane. Many had changed or tweaked their holiday plans to be at the circle. Those coincidently passing by in their cars honked their horns loudly and shouted out their windows in support.
A large sign next to the crane, up a small hill from the circle, read, "Welcome Home U.S. TROOPS, United Patriots of Maryland."
The event, a rally of sorts, had been organized earlier in the week by Rhonda Winkler and her family, neighbors and friends — dozens of whom were at the event — as a show of patriotism, unity and undiminished resolve to fly the stars and stripes at the circle, despite what they have been told by the State Highway Administration.
The impetus behind the event, and the group's creation of the nonprofit United Patriots of Maryland, was the removal of a much smaller flag Winkler's family had placed on the circle by a state road crew last week.. http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/news/community/ph-ho-cf-flag-rally-1229-20111227,0,6354426.story
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

20071030 Special Session update from Howard County State Delegate Warren Miller


Special Session update from Howard County State Delegate Warren Miller

October 30th, 2007

Several folks e-mailed me the update below from Howard County District 9A State Delegate Warren Miller. I’ll bet you will get value from it also:

Dear Howard County Constituent,

I wanted to keep you updated on the Special Session in Annapolis and Governor O'Malleys proposed tax increases.

Sincerely,

Warren Miller

State Delegate, District 9A

Howard County, Maryland

Once again I need help connecting the dots to make sense of the new O'Malley tax plan. Having looked at this piecemeal proposal several times, many things just don't make good sense. Before I get into the questions, I must commend the administration for orchestrating this whole traveling road show with laser precision. First the Governor endears himself to the community over a casual kitchen table conversation with an average Joe family. Then he proceeds to the rural areas of the state, styling himself as the hero of the Maryland agricultural community. Both were brilliant marketing moves in my opinion.

But now the message revolves around "doomsday". How do we go from the kitchen table or the cornfield to doomsday? Well, with Governor O'Malley the path is simple. If the General Assembly doesn't pass his tax increase bills, then we will spiral downward and never see daylight again. He has finally stooped to an all time low and unfortunately, I wish I could believe that he will not outdo himself in the future. He is resorting to tactics of terror, similar to the work of those who choose to push their agenda by taking our citizens hostage and sending us pictures of them in compromising positions. O'Malley has become a terrorist of sorts. He is sending his message of fright to college students and single moms without regard for them at all. He paints pictures of people being thrown out into the streets due t o program cuts and college students leaving college prematurely due to a lack of state funding. Fear is not the motivator that caused this country to rise to the top of the food chain. Fear paralyzes people, families and economies. This paralysis is just the formula for government intervention (another word for interference) in your daily life. If you can't function without their help, then you will do anything to preserve them, including paying tax rates that would make a loan shark blush.

Now time to connect the dots. The proposed tobacco tax is said to be two-fold; first, it will fund some health care projects and bail out some hospitals from bad debt. (By the way, most of this debt is caused by illegal immigrants using the emergency room as their primary care facility.) And secondly, this tax is supposed to act as a deterrent and reduce the number of smokers in Maryland. Trust me when I tell you that I do not support smoking or tobacco use. It is a proven killer, however, it is a legal activity and those who participate in it do it willingly. The addictive chemical make up of cigarettes causes the user to become a slave to the chemical and many users would like to quit but they simply can't. So this tax will possibly be the straw that breaks the camel's back and they will quit. I certain ly hope something short of cancer causes them to stop. Nevertheless, the main health benefit to this new tax is that many people will quit smoking.

With that said, let's look at another facet of this new tax plan. My health club membership is now going to be taxed. I am not sure why. I see empirical evidence proving that good health is achieved through physical exercise and healthy people cost less to care for overall. So here is my dilemma: If I buy into the notion that the tobacco tax will cause many smokers to become non-smokers (a good thing), what can I expect to happen to the health club members following the same logic? If health club members stop going to the health clubs and they become obese or unhealthy, what fiscal impact can be expected?

The bare bones truth is simple: this is not about health; it is about wealth. Yes, Governor O'Malley wants to play Robin Hood and take from the hard-working and give more to the hardly working. He also wants to make sure that the government continues to grow and gain market share in the affairs of your life. Remember, the goal is for big government to become invaluable to you so that you will gladly pay for them to stay around to help. It has been said over and over, but it bears repeating. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. Containing costs has not been considered, nor will it be. The only time we hear about containing costs is in reference to single moms losing job training or college students leaving school to work at McDonalds beca use they could not afford college tuition. And that brings me to my final dot that needs to be connected.

Last year the Governor (yes, this same Martin O'Malley) wanted to give illegal immigrants tuition breaks amounting to about $14,000 per year per student. This ill-fated plan would have cost Marylanders untold millions of dollars. He made the arguments ranging from "we owe it to ourselves to have an educated illegal population" to "an education will keep them from stealing from us in the long run". Now I hear Governor O'Malley stating that if we do not pass this budget, all the state schools will loose millions of dollars and students will go without, or tuition will be raised to ungodly levels. How much worse would it have been if his plan had not been stopped last year? I think that makes little to no sense, but then again, that's par for this course.

I simply don't believe the Governor has a plan. He is piecing together a tapestry one square at a time and hoping he covers all his bases. Unfortunately, this tapestry is just the wet blanket our state's economy needs to put out the fire caused by several years of strong growth. Thanks Governor O'Malley.

www.mdtaxes.org

www.mdgop.org

www.hocogop.org

www.ntu.org

www.atr.org

omalleywatch.com

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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

20070907 Fiscal Year 2008 Howard County Arts Council Grant Awards Announced

Fiscal Year 2008 Howard County Arts Council Grant Awards Announced

It is with all due respect that I venture to row in Howard County’s pond. We certainly have great bloggers in Howard County who cover the territory quite well. Nevertheless, it appears that the arts are alive and well in Howard County.

I have written about the enormous positive economic impact of the arts. The social, cultural, and economic return for every dollar a community spends on the arts is unexpectedly high – and it is a critical economic indicator of a thriving community…

Many years ago I participated in a group show in Howard County under the auspices of the Howard County Arts Council and was quite impressed with the organization…

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PRESS RELEASE --- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 10, 2007 – Received Tuesday, October 2, 2007 1:27 PM

Contact: Coleen West

Phone: (410) 313-2787

E-mail: coleen@hocoarts.org

FISCAL YEAR 2008 HOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL GRANT AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Ellicott City, MD - On Friday, September 7, 2007, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman announced that 38 arts and cultural organizations will receive $361,017.31 in matching grants from the Howard County Arts Council for Fiscal Year 2008. Senator James N. Robey, Joyce Leviton representing Senator Ben Cardin, Howard County Council member ' s Calvin Ball, Jennifer Terrasa, Greg Fox, and Jay Dick of Americans for the Arts supported Mr. Ulman in presenting the awards to grantees.

The awards were announced at the Arts Council's annual meeting and reception on September 7, at the Howard County Center for the Arts. These matching grants will be used by 19 Howard County organizations; 11 Howard County public schools; and 8 key Baltimore City organizations to support general operations, artist residencies, and special projects in the arts. Over 300 HCAC members and friends joined state and local politicians at the grant award ceremony.

Community Arts Development Grants fund day-to-day activities for Howard County arts organizations as well as special projects in the arts; $205,605.65 was awarded to the following 19 organizations for FY2008:

Blossoms of Hope ... The Howard County Cherry Tree Project Project

$339.65

Candlelight Concert Society

Operating

$30,000.00

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Project

$3,000.00

Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts

Operating

$23,618.00

Columbia Community Players

Project

$1,800.00

Columbia Concert Band and Jazz Band

Project

$3,000.00

Columbia Festival of the Arts

Operating

$50,465.00

Columbia Orchestra

Operating

$18,800.00

Columbia Pro Cantare

Operating

$24,154.00

Harmony of the Sol

Project

$3,000.00

Howard County Ballet

Project

$340.00

Howard County Poetry and Literature Society Operating $11,515.00 Hua

Sha Chinese Dance Center Project $3,000.00 Kinetics Dance Theatre

Operating $8,775.00 Little Patuxent Review Project $1,800.00 Misako

Ballet Company Project $1,500.00 Rep Stage/HCC Educational Foundation

Operating $14,999.00 Showtime Singers Project $3,000.00 Sundays at

Three Project $2,500.00

The Jim Rouse Theatre (JRT) Subsidy Program assists community arts groups by partially underwriting theatre rental fees; $14,370 was awarded to the following 6 organizations for FY2008:

Columbia Orchestra

$5,478.75

Columbia Pro Cantare

$3,641.25

Howard County Ballet

$1,355.00

Howard County Poetry and Literature Society $827.50 Hua Sha Chinese

Dance Center $750.00 Kinetics Dance Theatre $2,317.50

Artist-in-Education Project Grants are a partnership between the Arts Council and local Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) to place professional artists in residence at Howard County Schools to help students foster creative expression; $17,841.66 in funding was awarded to the following 11 schools for FY2008:

Bollman Bridge Elementary School PTA

$1,133.00

Elkridge Landing Middle School PTA

$2,000.00

Folly Quarter Middle School PTA

$674.00

Guilford Elementary School PTA

$2,025.00

Hammond Elementary School PTA

$1,333.00

Harper ' s Choice Middle School PTA

$1,773.33

Jeffers Hill Elementary School PTA

$1,831.67

Longfellow Elementary School PTA

$725.00

Patapsco Middle School PTA

$1,333.33

Running Brook Elementary School PTA

$2,513.33

Swansfield Elementary School PTA

$2,500.00

Baltimore City Arts and Cultural Grants provide funding to key Baltimore City organizations that provide significant services to Howard County residents; $123,200 was awarded to the following 8 organizations for FY2008:

Baltimore Museum of Art

$27,300.00

Baltimore Museum of Industry

$6,625.00

Center Stage

$16,750.00

Maryland Historical Society

$5,000.00

Maryland Science Center

$10,500.00

Maryland Zoo in Baltimore

$9,250.00

National Aquarium

$25,125.00

The Walters Art Museum

$22,650.00

Howard County Arts Council grants are awarded on the basis of artistic merit, ability of the applicant to carry out the project, and level of service to the community. Grantees are selected through a competitive process in which applications are reviewed by an advisory panel made up of academics and artists representing a variety of disciplines. Grant award recommendations are then reviewed and approved by the Howard County Arts Council Board of Directors.

The Arts Council ' s grant program is supported through grants from the Howard County government and the Maryland State Arts Council as well as through the Howard County Arts Council ' s own foundation, corporate, and individual giving initiatives.

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The Howard County Arts Council is a non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the citizens of Howard County by fostering the arts, artists and arts organizations. The Howard County Arts Council receives major grants from the Howard County Government and the Maryland State Arts Council and sustaining annual support from corporate, foundation and individual sponsors. Howard County Arts Council offices are located at the Howard County Center for the Arts, 8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043. The Howard County Center for the Arts is a handicapped accessible facility and full participation of individuals with disabilities is encouraged. For information, call 410.313.ARTS (2787), fax 410.313.2790, or email info@hocoarts.org.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

20070619 The past week has taken an horrific toll on public safely personnel

The past week has taken an horrific toll on public safely personnel.

June 19th, 2007

In Charleston, “nine firefighters (were) killed in massive blaze.” ... We agree with Charles County Café - - It’s horrible.

“Nine firefighters died Monday night in a fire that destroyed the Sofa Super Store in West Ashley.”

And we all wonder “Why don’t the newscasters cry…” and agree with HoCo Hayduke who is “in full agreement with David Keelan that this is terrible news:"

A Howard County police officer died early this morning from injuries he sustained after he was struck by a car he tried to pull over for speeding Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

Howard police said Pfc. Scott Wheeler, a 6 1/2-year veteran, was working a speed enforcement detail on Route 32 near U.S. 1 when he and two other officers tried to stop a Nissan Sentra about 2 p.m. Police said the car's driver was suspected of speeding.

And even us open and transparent government fanatics agree with Mr. HoCo Hayduke’s last paragraph:

“Wheeler's death follows a few weeks of ego-fueled, voyeuristic stories and "because we can" public information requests and disclosures from the Examiner about government salaries…”

Read the rest here: Why don’t the newscasters cry…

Keep the police officer’s and firefighters’ families and loved ones in your prayers and place in our hearts for the dangerous work they do everyday – so that we may remain safe.

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References, further reading and Hat Tips:

Horribleposted by June 19, 2007 richardgwhite in Charles County Café: National News. Nine firefighters killed in massive blaze” - Noah Haglund | Charleston.net | The Post and Courier

Why don’t the newscasters cry…” posted June 18th, 2007 in HoCo Hayduke After a week of arguments, I am in full agreement with David Keelan that this is terrible news.”

City mourns 9 firefighters killed in warehouse blaze - Myrtle Beach Sun News

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