20080225 CCBOC Agenda for the week of February 25, 2008

Carroll County Board of Commissioners Agenda for the Week of February 25, 2008

Board of County Commissioners

Julia W. Gouge, President

Dean L. Minnich, Vice President

Michael D. Zimmer, Secretary

Carroll County Government

225 North Center Street

Westminster, Maryland 21157

410-386-2043; 1-888-302-8978

fax 410-386-2485; TT 410-848-9747

Agenda for the Week of February 25, 2008

Please Note: This weekly agenda is subject to change. Please call 410-386-2043 to confirm a meeting you plan to attend. All meetings will be held at the Carroll County Office Building Room 311. (Unless otherwise noted)

Indicates Outside Activities

Monday ~ February 25, 2008

6:00 p.m. Planning Commission Meeting

County Office Building ~ Room 003

Commissioner Gouge

Tuesday ~ February 26, 2008

10:00 a.m. Joint Meeting

Frederick County Commissioners with the Carroll County Commissioners

Discussion on Solid Waste Management Strategy

Frederick County Offices

12 East Church Street ~ Winchester Hall, Frederick, MD

Commissioners Gouge, Minnich & Zimmer

7:00 p.m. Carroll County Agriculture Center Annual Dinner

Westminster, MD

Commissioner Zimmer

Wednesday ~ February 27, 2008

10:00 a.m. Maryland Association of Counties (MACo) Meeting

Annapolis, MD

Commissioner Gouge

Wednesday ~ February 27, 2008 ~ Continued

1:00 p.m. Joint Meeting

Board of Education with the Carroll County Commissioners

Board of Education Offices

Westminster, MD

Commissioners Gouge, Minnich & Zimmer

Thursday ~ February 28, 2008

10:00 a.m. Board of County Commissioners Open Roundtable Discussion

Followed by

Board of County Commissioners Open Session

Presentation of Proclamation ~ "On the Same Page"

Carroll County Public Library ~ Ms. Lynn Wheeler

School Enrollment Projections

Department of Management & Budget ~ Mr. Ted Zaleski

Environmental Awareness within the Home

Citizens ~ Rebecca Orenstein, Nancy Frick & Mary Ann Turner

Review of Application ~ Patapsco Road Watershed Stream Restoration

Grant Proposal to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Department of Management & Budget ~ Mr. Ted Zaleski

Department of Planning ~ Mr. Steve Horn

Chief of Staff Time ~ Mr. Steve Powell

Administrative Session ~ Closed

1:30 p.m. Roundtable Discussion with the Westminster Ministerium

Westminster Baptist Church

Westminster, MD

Commissioners Gouge, Minnich & Zimmer

Friday ~ February 29, 2008

National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference

Washington, DC

Commissioner Gouge

Saturday ~ March 1, 2008

National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference

Washington, DC

Commissioner Gouge

12:00 p.m. Christian Farmers Outreach, Inc. Annual Outreach Luncheon

Pleasant Valley Fire Department ~ Westminster, MD

Commissioner Zimmer

Sunday ~ March 2, 2008

8:05 a.m. “The Commissioners’ Report” – WTTR

Commissioner Minnich

National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference

Washington, DC

Commissioner Gouge

ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE: The Americans with Disabilities Act applies to the Carroll County Government and its programs, services, activities, and facilities. If you have questions, suggestions, or complaints, please contact Ms. Jolene Sullivan, the Carroll County Government Americans With Disabilities Act Coordinator, at 410-386-3600/1-888-302-8978 or TTY No. 410-848-9747. The mailing address is 225 North Center Street, Westminster, Maryland 21157. Posted: 07/07/06CARROLL COUNTY

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20080220 Long Boat Key Marina

Long Boat Key Marina

Long Boat Key Sarasota Florida

February 20, 2008

Kevin Dayhoff

The Long Boat Key Dry Dock Waterfront Grill

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20080220 This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

A Presidents’ Day View

Kevin E. Dayhoff

In the wake of “Super Tuesday” and the “Potomac Primary,” all signs point to a November presidential contest between United States Senators John McCain, of Arizona, and Barack Obama, of Illinois.

Two Good Men Were Defeated

Tom McLaughlin

Wayne T. Gilchrest, of the 1st Congressional District on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, was just tired. I think George Bush and his cronies wore him down to the point that he didn’t care whether he was re-elected or not.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Obama "Tide"

Roy Meachum

A Wisconsin February once cost me a tire chain. Going north of Milwaukee to Green Bay, the links broke and thumped repeatedly against the car until I managed to pull off the road. Forecasters predict the same wintry mess for today's voting.

The Passion of a Lifetime

Nick Diaz

Enough math education for a while, folks. If you’ve been reading my recent contributions to thetentacle.com, you may well conclude that education in general, and mathematics education in particular, is the focus of my existence.

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Monday, February 18, 2008

General Assembly Journal 2008 – Volume 2

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

With all of the presidential sweepstakes hoopla, I’ve let the Journal slip to a back shelf. It’s time to brush the dust off the leather binding.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

“Stronger Than I Thought"

Roy Meachum

The words belong to erstwhile congressional candidate Andrew Duck. He said them as I was leaving the Democratic election night party. He was referring, of course, to rival Jennifer Dougherty's showing in early returns.

A New Chapter

Edward Lulie III

Living here in Frederick County for most of our lives means that I am always running into people who know us, and who openly wonder where Beth is. It is somewhat like being a plague carrier; you are always the bearer of bad news; for those that you tell what has happened can have no good response to make; there is not much to say but that it was a tragedy and that Beth will be sorely missed by all who knew her.

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

The Visit of a Lifetime

Chris Cavey

Last Thursday was a very exciting evening for Maryland Republicans. Our validity as a meaningful primary state was made significant by a visit from the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, John McCain; but this visit didn’t happen entirely by accident.

Some Background for Stepping Up To The Plate

Joan McIntyre

I’m continuing on the subject of the Frederick County Planning Commission for the moment. One, because I’ll be leaving it soon after 10 years; and, two, because I want to spark interest in others joining.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The McCain Maalox Paradox

Kevin E. Dayhoff

At this point in the Republican 2008 presidential primary campaign Senator John McCain has over three times as many Republican National Convention delegates as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Most people have resigned themselves to the fact that Senator McCain is the de-facto Republican nominee.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

They Are Coming

Roy Meachum

Sheriff Chuck Jenkins shapes up as the least likely Hitler I can imagine: I know the man. His critics are way off the mark when they say he plans to turn his department into a latter-day Gestapo. It's not in him.

Our Most Important Election Isn’t for President

Farrell Keough

On February 5, your plucky columnist put together a forum at the Urbana Volunteer Fire & Rescue Station for the Board of Education candidates seeking to gain a nomination today for a seek on that body. An impressive array of candidates showed up and spent three hours taking on questions and listening to others.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Political Stupidity Masquerading as Conscience

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

So, the GOP has its presumptive nominee. With all due respect to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, it just ain’t Hucka-happenin’!

Activist Frederick County

Steven R. Berryman

Great news! The System works. Activism is alive and well and living in Frederick County, Maryland. Where the system fails to work, it is fixing itself; and isn’t that what the system really is?

20080218 New York Times: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

Celebrating the semicolon

February 18, 2008

Since the semicolon is by far, my favorite punctuation mark; I thoroughly enjoyed: “Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location ,” which appears in the New York Times today. I bet you’ll enjoy the article also.

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

By SAM ROBERTS February 18, 2008

It was nearly hidden on a New York City Transit public service placard exhorting subway riders not to leave their newspaper behind when they get off the train.

“Please put it in a trash can,” riders are reminded. After which Neil Neches, an erudite writer in the transit agency’s marketing and service information department, inserted a semicolon. The rest of the sentence reads, “that’s good news for everyone.”

Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in advertising, the semicolon has been largely jettisoned as a pretentious anachronism.

[…]

“When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life,” Kurt Vonnegut once said. “Old age is more like a semicolon.”

In terms of punctuation, semicolons signal something New Yorkers rarely do. Frank McCourt, the writer and former English teacher at Stuyvesant High School, describes the semicolon as the yellow traffic light of a “New York sentence.” In response, most New Yorkers accelerate; they don’t pause to contemplate.

[…]

Louis Menand, an English professor at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker, pronounced the subway poster’s use of the semicolon to be “impeccable.”

Lynne Truss, author of “Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,” called it a “lovely example” of proper punctuation.

Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, praised the “burgeoning of punctuational literacy in unlikely places.”

Allan M. Siegal, a longtime arbiter of New York Times style before retiring, opined, “The semicolon is correct, though I’d have used a colon, which I think would be a bit more sophisticated in that sentence.”

[…]

New York City Transit’s unintended agenda notwithstanding, e-mail messages and text-messaging may jeopardize the last vestiges of semicolons. They still live on, though, in emoticons, those graphic emblems of our grins, grimaces and other facial expressions.

The semicolon, befittingly, symbolizes a wink.

Read the entire article; what fun: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

Image credit: http://www.punctuationplaytime.com/images/Box-Semicolon.gif

20080218 New York Times: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location

20080217 Long Boat Key sunrise

Long Boat Key sunrise

February 17, 2008

Kevin Dayhoff

Florida Long Boat Key Sarasota Feb 2008

Florida Long Boat Key Sarasota

20080216 19230216 Lincoln Day Dinner Democratic Advocate

85 years ago in Westminster, Carroll County Maryland: Lincoln Day Dinner

Democratic Advocate, February 16, 1923

The Lincoln dinner held here Monday night under the auspices of the Republican County Central Committee, Theodore F. Brown, Chairman, was attended by 150 representative Republicans, among whom were many ladies, from all sections of the county.

William L. Seabrook was the toastmaster who announced that, although only Republicans were present, the gathering was intended to have no partisan significance, and that those present had assembled for only two purposes—to honor the memory of the greatest American and promote harmony in the party.

The speakers of the evening were Deputy Attorney General Wendell D. Allen and Hon. J. Craig McLanahan. Miss Dorothy Elderdice of Western Maryland College read, "When Lincoln Walks at Midnight," and "Lincoln and Lee;" E. O. Stander of Mansfield, Ohio, sang several solos, and the quartet - J. Smith Billingslea, Edwin M. Gehr, Harry M. Kimmey and Clause T. Kimmey - rendered several selections.

The Westminster orchestra furnished music during the dinner. John H. Cunningham closed the exercises of the evening, near midnight, with words of thanks do the speakers and to the young ladies of the domestic science department of the Westminster High School who, under the direction of their instructress, Miss Crapster, served the dinner.

Democratic Advocate, February 16, 1923.

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20080215 19730215 The Carroll Record: The Bowling Brook Story: Benefactor Relied On Trustees' Discretion

This day in history 35 years ago:

The Bowling Brook Story: Benefactor Relied On Trustees' Discretion

The Carroll Record, February 15, 1973

In the legal confrontation last week, Judge Weant denied the petition of James J. Wolfe, a heir of Raymond Richardson, for the removal of the Trustees.

Sweeping aside the legal mask covering the actions of Mr. Wolfe, Judge Weant said, "It seems rather ironic that petitioner Wolfe is complaining that the trustees are attacking the Raymond I. Richardson Foundation while at the same time the petitioner appears to be pursuing a course which, if successful, would in all probability cause the termination of the Raymond I. Richardson Foundation.

In any event, it is the opinion of this court that the matters and facts before us to this date do not establish sufficient grounds, either mandatory or discretionary, to sustain the removal of the trustees and the petition will be denied."

The court, after vindicating Miller Richardson and the other trustees, asked for further evidence showing that the license would be revoked and that Bowling Brook would be closed by the State of Maryland if the admissions policy is not changed.

The Carroll Record, February 15, 1973.

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Key West Custom House exhibit

Key West Custom House exhibit

February 14, 2008

Photos:

Top - 20080210 Key West Custom House American Gothic sculpture…
Bottom - 20080214 Key West Custom House outside sculpture…

The Key West Museum of Art & History in the Custom House: The living past in a vibrant future

http://www.kwahs.com/customhouse.htm

Follow a path once traveled by wreckers, pirates, and politicians to South Florida's most important historic building. The Custom House, built in 1891, served as a post office, court house and government center when wrecking made Key West the richest city, per capita, in the U.S. But by the 1930s, the island city was bankrupt. Eventually, the building was boarded up and completely abandoned. Now, after a 9-year, $9 million restoration project, the Key West Art & Historical Society has returned the big red brick building to its former glory.

See folk artist Mario Sanchez's colorful wood paintings of old Key West.

Meet Key West's famous people through portraits by Paul Collins.

Stand in the very room where the U.S. decided to go to war with Spain, following the sinking of the battleship USS Maine.

Learn about Ernest Hemingway's life in Key West, where he wrote many of his most famous novels. See his bloodstained WWI uniform and other personal items that created his legendary status as an adventurer and writer.

Discover how pirates prowled the inlets of the Keys to hide themselves and their loot - and how the Navy rid the local waters of the "Brethren of the Coast.”

Feel the history of Key West come alive in the big red brick building - The "Coolest" Museum in Town!

Who Is Key West? Internationally acclaimed painter Paul Collins displays his modern renditions of Key West's most memorable characters past and present, featuring subjects from Henry Flagler to Mario Sanchez, Fuzzy the Cobbler to Ernest Hemingway and more.

Mario Sanchez - Painter Of Old Key West - 2nd Floor. His detailed depictions of life in Key West during the early 20th Century have made him one of the country's most sought after folk artists. Sanchez' creations are mostly reliefs carved into wood panels and then brightly colored. They reflect street scenes, places and people from his past in amazingly accurate detail and with a profound sense of humor.

Coping With Depression, the WPA in the 1930s - Dogwood Gallery - Exhibit depicts Key West in the '30s through drawings, sketches, intaglio prints, paintings and promotional brochures produced by the artists of the Works Art Project.

The Key West Museum of Art & History in the Custom House, 281 Front Street, Key West, Florida 33040

Click here to find the Custom House with Google Maps

Open Everyday from 9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Closed Christmas

Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children (children under 6 Free) and students with ID. $9.00 for Seniors (62+), AAA Travelers, and Locals with ID.Members - Free.

Group Rates also available. Rental of the facility and free tours are available.

Call 305-295-6616 Ext. 16 for information.

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20080214 Key West Custom House exhibit

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20080213 Westminster Maryland weather forecast

20080213 Westminster Maryland weather forecast

Frederick Municipal Airport
Lat: 39.42 Lon: -77.37 Elev: 308
Last Update on Feb 13, 10:27 pm EST

NWS Baltimore, MD/Washington, D.C.
Point Forecast: Westminster MD [Similar City Names]
39.6N -77.02W

En Español
Last Update: 2:30 pm EST Feb 13, 2008
Forecast Valid: 11pm EST Feb 13, 2008-6pm EST Feb 20, 2008

Overnight: A chance of snow showers before midnight, then a chance for flurries. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. North wind between 15 and 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Thursday: Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 41. West wind between 7 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.

Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 25. South wind between 3 and 5 mph.

Friday: A slight chance of showers after 1pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 49. West wind between 6 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21. Northwest wind between 11 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 35.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 20.

Sunday: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 38. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Sunday Night: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a low around 34. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Presidents' Day: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 24.

Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 34.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 15.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 33.

20080213 Daily Photoblog Key West Marina

Key West Marina

Daily Photoblog - February 13, 2006

Kevin Dayhoff

I snapped this picture while I was talking with Miss Rachelle this evening. She was explaining the weather in Westminster at the time. Snow, sleet, freezing rain and cold: By the time I had taken this photograph, the temperature in Key West was below 80 degrees…

20080213 Key West Weather forecast

Wednesday February 13, 2008 Key West weather forecast

Key West Airport

Lat: 24.55 Lon: -81.75 Elev: 4

Last Update on Feb 13, 9:53 pm EST

Overnight: A 20 percent chance of showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 71. North northwest wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Thursday, February 14^th, 2008

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers after 7am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74. Northeast wind between 15 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. East wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a high near 81. East wind around 10 mph.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 73. East wind around 10 mph.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a high near 81. East wind around 10 mph.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 74. East wind between 10 and 15 mph.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a high near 81. East southeast wind around 15 mph.

Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 71. South southeast wind between 10 and 15 mph.

Presidents' Day: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78.

Monday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71.

Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71.

20080213 This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The McCain Maalox Paradox

Kevin E. Dayhoff

At this point in the Republican 2008 presidential primary campaign Senator John McCain has over three times as many Republican National Convention delegates as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Most people have resigned themselves to the fact that Senator McCain is the de-facto Republican nominee.

When I appeared on WYPR’s Marc Steiner show to discuss the 2008 presidential campaign, just after the New Hampshire primary, it was still a wide-open race and no one could really forecast what was going to happen.

There were so many unpredictable dynamics in play, especially since the primaries were developing to be less of an exercise in intellectual voting as much as a raw-emotional vote. Some people were looking forward and others are looking backward. Some people were upside down and many uber-conservatives were looking at their navel through a cracked mirror.

Earlier in the campaign, many thought the election was going to turn on national security and the war in Iraq; but as “the surge” continues to be successful, the war in Iraq is quickly being replaced by the economy.

To be certain, immigration, or more specifically, illegal immigration continues to be a hot button issue, driving people to a particular candidate.

For some conservative Republicans, “resigned” is the operative adjective as the inevitability of Senator McCain’s nomination continues to rankle the hard rightwing.

Looking back, “they/we” have not trusted Senator McCain's moderate (liberal) positions on some issues in the past and his willingness to work to (over)reach across the aisle and work with (give-in to) Democrats in Congress. There is concern that if he had a desk in the Oval Office he will repeat those behaviors.

Many conservatives have threatened to sit out the November 2008 presidential election if Senator McCain is the Republican candidate.

Ay, caramba. I take no pleasure in pointing out the fallacy in this illogical approach which is being contemplated by some of my conservative friends.

Read the rest of the column here: The McCain Maalox Paradox

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

They Are Coming

Roy Meachum

Sheriff Chuck Jenkins shapes up as the least likely Hitler I can imagine: I know the man. His critics are way off the mark when they say he plans to turn his department into a latter-day Gestapo. It's not in him.

Our Most Important Election Isn’t for President

Farrell Keough

On February 5, your plucky columnist put together a forum at the Urbana Volunteer Fire & Rescue Station for the Board of Education candidates seeking to gain a nomination today for a seek on that body. An impressive array of candidates showed up and spent three hours taking on questions and listening to others.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Political Stupidity Masquerading as Conscience

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

So, the GOP has its presumptive nominee. With all due respect to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, it just ain’t Hucka-happenin’!

Activist Frederick County

Steven R. Berryman

Great news! The System works. Activism is alive and well and living in Frederick County, Maryland. Where the system fails to work, it is fixing itself; and isn’t that what the system really is?

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Friday, February 8, 2008

What a Ride!

Roy Meachum

Did anyone notice? Tuesday's primaries in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia could be important; unlike past years when our votes came after the fact of the parties' selecting their nominees.

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

The Clothes-Pin Election Nightmare

John W. Ashbury

It started too early. It might end earlier than ever before. And the choices are far from prime. Yet, a selection must and will be made in November.

Comparatively Speaking…

Tony Soltero

One of the amusing sideshows of the Republican presidential nomination fight is seeing individuals like John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney desperately elbowing each other out of the way to stake a claim on being "the true inheritor" of Ronald Reagan's legacy.

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The SB2 Virus

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Last November the Maryland General Assembly inadvertently installed a “Trojan Virus,” now named “SB2,” on the critically important Maryland technology industry.

“To moratorium or not to moratorium…”

Alan Imhoff

Recently I had the opportunity to attend opening night of the Maryland Shakespeare Theater’s fast-paced, hilarious two hour production of the Bard’s complete works (abridged).

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Presidential Elections Past

Roy Meachum

Registered Frederick County voters received a notice from the elections board last week: Enclosed was a list of candidates for federal jobs, including wannabe delegates to next summer's party conventions and the gang trying out for the Board of Education.

The Power of Weenie Numbers

Nick Diaz

In all my years of teaching middle school mathematics, I’ve been exposed to many an “impossible” problem which can be solved by studying the pattern involved. Some people have been endowed by our Creator with the ability to notice, recognize, and apply such patterns to solve given problems. Most people, however, must be taught these skills.

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Trash, Manure, and Politics

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

No, the title of this piece is NOT a game of “which of three things is not like the other,” mostly because the differences are so insignificant.

John McCain Facing Forward

Steven R. Berryman

The Florida Republican Primary contest is now behind us and it certainly was a watershed event. John McCain won large. Rudy Giuliani bowed out afterward despite having wagered heavily in that state, chock-full of retirees from New York. This may have been the arena where McCain’s age was a trump card. What does he face going forward?

20080211 Westminster Road Runners Club Schedule for May - August 2008

February 11, 2008

Westminster Road Runners Club Schedule

May-August, 2008

For other posts on running or the Westminster Road Runners Club please click on: Sports Running or Westminster Road Runners Club or Westminster Sidewalks and Trails or westminster road runners club or westminster sidewalks and trails. The Westminster Road Runners Club web site is here: http://www.carr.org/%7Ewrrc/

Saturday, May 3, 8:00 am, Sandymount Four Miler, Sandymount

Elementary School, Old Westminster Pike, Westminster, Md.

Joe Loveland, 410-857-1201 or joeloveland1@hotmail.com

RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

Saturday, May 10, 9:00 am, Carroll County Youth Services

Bureau 5K, Tahoma Farm Road and Rt. 31, Westminster, Md.

Gary Honeman, 410-848-2118 or ghoneman@ccysb.org

Saturday, May 17, 9:00 am, TRES 5K and 1 Mile Walk/Run, Twin

Ridge Elementary School, Mt. Airy, Md. Tracy Flower, Twin

Ridge Elementary School, 1106 Leafy Hollow Circle, Mt. Airy,

Md. 21771, 240-236-2300, or Tracy.Flower@fcps.org

Thursday, May 29, 7:00 pm, Twilight Series #1, Falcon Two

Mile Track Run, Winters Mill High School, Westminster, Md.

David Herlocker, 410-848-8332 or dherlock@mcdaniel.edu

RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

Thursday, June 12, 7:00 pm, Twilight Series #2, Run With The

Knights 5K, Century High School, Eldersburg, Md. Bob

Paczynski, 410-549-1123 or vintage66pony@aol.com

RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

Thursday, June 26, 7:00 pm, Twilight Series #3, Camp Hashawa

Three Mile Trail Run, Camp Hashawa, John Owings Road,

Westminster, Md. Gary Honeman, 410-848-2118 or

ghoneman@ccysb.org RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

Thursday, July 10, 7:00 pm, Twilight Series #4, FSK 6K,

Francis Scott Key High School, Uniontown, Md. Tom

Russell, 410-751-1434. RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

Sunday, July 13, 8:15 am, Women's Distance Festival 5K Run,

Union Mills Homestead, Union Mills, Md. Liuda Galinaitis,

1796 S. Pleasant Valley Rd., Westminster, Md. 21158,

410-857-5427, or liuda@carr.org

Thursday, July 24, 7:00 pm, Twilight Series #5, Pleasant Valley

Four Mile Run, Pleasant Valley Fire Hall, Pleasant Valley,

Md. Liuda Galinaitis, 410-857-5427 or liuda@carr.org

RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

Thursday, August 7, 7:00 pm, Twilight Series #6, Runnymede 8K,

Runnymede Elementary School, Westminster, Md. David

Herlocker, 410-848-8332 or dherlock@mcdaniel.edu

RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

Sunday, August 17, 8:00 am, Kowomu Trail 5K Road Race,

Rinehart Road, Westminster, Md. David Herlocker,

410-848-8332 or dherlock@mcdaniel.edu RACE DAY ENTRY ONLY

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20080212 Remember to Vote

Remember to Vote

20080212 Remember to Vote

20080211 “Quintessential Key West Rooster” February 11, 2008 Photo by Mrs. Owl

Daily Photoblog

“Quintessential Key West Rooster”

February 11, 2008

Photo by Mrs. Owl

(She was dropping off my absentee ballot. See this week’s Tentacle column for some additional insight…)

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20080211 “Quintessential Key West Rooster” February 11, 2008 Photo by Mrs. Owl