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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Recent The Tentacle columns by Kevin Dayhoff

Recent The Tentacle columns by Kevin Dayhoff

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November 30, 2011
Don’t Let the Door……. 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In an historic, extraordinary step in the proper direction for the economic future of our great country, Rep. Barney Frank (D., MA) announced Monday that he is retiring from Congress.

November 23, 2011
A Little Turkey History and A Wish 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Happy Thanksgiving! Tomorrow all of America will be celebrating the American version of the “Harvest Festival” by gathering their families together and watching football. Some may be aware that the annual holiday originated as a celebration to give thanks for the annual harvest.

November 16, 2011
Celebrating Veterans Day and “A Call to Arms” 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
This year Veterans Day fell on a Friday and many enjoyed a three-day weekend – shopping, doing chores around the house or spending time with friends and family, luxuries all paid for by an American man or woman in uniform.

November 9, 2011
The Long-Term Fear Factor 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Recently the political turmoil in Italy and Greece, France’s increasing financial troubles, and the lack of leadership in Europe and the United States, are slowly edging the planet from an economic crisis to a long-term fear factor.

November 2, 2011
Work Cut Out For Municipal League 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
This week officials from Maryland cities and towns throughout the state converged on the Cambridge Hyatt Chesapeake Bay conference facilities for the three-day Maryland Municipal League’s fall legislative conference.

October 26, 2011
The Path to Re-Election, Argentine Style 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Riding the wave of a booming economy, fueled primarily by agricultural exports, the incumbent leftist Peronist-Justicialist and truly enigmatic president of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, 58, easily won her bid for re-election on Sunday.

October 19, 2011
Bank Transfer Day 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
While everyone was distracted by what Charles Krauthammer delightfully described as, the “Starbucks-sipping, Levi’s-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters (of the Occupy Wall Street movement who) denounce corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over…,” a new social uprising term has entered the public discourse. Saturday, November 5 is “Bank Transfer Day.”

October 12, 2011
The Maryland Redistricting Sweepstakes 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Many veteran political observers were taken aback when Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s redistricting commission released its proposed congressional redistricting plan late in the evening of October 3; especially those in Frederick and Carroll County.

October 5, 2011
The Durbin Predator Fees 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Last week Bank of America announced it was going to further bite into the neck of the consuming public with a predatory “Durbin Fee” of $5 per month to use its debit card.

September 28, 2011
A “Capital” History Lesson 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Yesterday, September 27, one city in the United States celebrated the anniversary of the occasion when it was the capital of the United States for one day. Can you name that city? How many cities have served as the capital of our nation since September 5, 1774?


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David Grand - Westminster Patch: 'Brother, can you spare a dime?'


Compelling sociological and historical insights into the Great Depression by David Grand in Westminster Patch. Thanks. Kevin Dayhoff

http://westminster.patch.com/blog_posts/blog-brother-can-you-spare-a-dime#comments_list

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Local Voices

David A. Grand

Blog: 'Brother, can you spare a dime?'

http://westminster.patch.com/blog_posts/blog-brother-can-you-spare-a-dime#comments_list



Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:29 am
That was the Depression-era anthem for the times. Written in 1932, that song still resonates loud and clear today, especially among those who find themselves, due to no fault of their own, in a daily struggle for mere survival.
And hard as it may be for the approximate 15 million Americans who are unemployed today (not including those working part-time jobs, or who’ve given up looking for jobs), or for the 46.2 million currently living below the official poverty line of $22,314 for a family of four, to imagine that there were even worst times in our nation’s history... http://westminster.patch.com/blog_posts/blog-brother-can-you-spare-a-dime#comments_list

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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.


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In losing Ravens' camp, Westminster takes hit in pride and profit

In losing Ravens' camp, Westminster takes hit in pride and profit


Tradition of training camp at college dates to the 1950s Baltimore Colts


By Jon Meoli and Jim Joyner, jmeoli@tribune.com and jjoyner@patuxent.com
December 2, 2011 | 10:34 p.m.
Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz, 54, recalls that when he was a young boy living on Bond Street, he and his brother would ride their bikes several blocks to the Baltimore Colts' training camp at then-Western Maryland College to watch their favorite players up close.
The Colts' camp, held in Westminster from 1953 to 1971, "wasn't as plush" as the camps the Baltimore Ravens have held at the school, now McDaniel College, over the past 15 years, he said.
But those summer days tied Westminster, and all of Carroll County, to Baltimore's football team.
Perhaps that's what hurts so much about the Ravens' decision that they won't be back to McDaniel College in 2012, he said.
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"It's almost a 50-year tradition that's being broken," said Utz. "That's the sad part about it." ...

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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.


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My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/

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MDGOP Announces Hiring of Executive Director

MDGOP Announces Hiring of Executive Director
http://www.mdgop.org/mdgop-announces-hiring-of-executive-director/

Fri Dec 02 2011


ANNAPOLIS - Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, Alex X. Mooney, announced the hiring of David A. Ferguson to serve as the next Executive Director of the Maryland GOP.
After a long, exhaustive process which included over 40 applications and 15 interviews, Chairman Mooney and First Vice-Chairman Diana Waterman agreed that Mr. Ferguson was the best choice for this important position.
Currently, David is the principal of Ferguson & Associates, a full-service marketing, advertising and public relations firm headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia and Montgomery, Alabama. Ferguson & Associates works with small businesses, public figures, community and sports organizations, educational institutions, as well as Republican and conservative nonpartisan candidates for public office. He has managed several small businesses under the banner of David Ferguson Enterprises.
At 24, Ferguson was the campaign manager when he led now-Governor, Dr. Robert Bentley's, campaign to a surprise victory in Alabama's 2010 Republican Primary. Since his days as a College Republican, he has managed and worked on campaigns at numerous levels.
Mooney, said, "David's understanding of business management, fundraising, and the political environment makes him the right choice to lead the day-to-day operations of the Maryland GOP. I look forward to serving with David as we go onward as a party united in the mission of winning elections."
Ferguson said, "I am thankful for the new and exciting opportunity to work with the Maryland Republican Party. Despite the challenges we face, I have promised to lead an effective organization that will communicate a conservative vision of lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, and creating the best environment in America to live, work, and raise a family."
Ferguson is replacing interim-Executive Director State Delegate Justin Ready, as he prepares to return to the Maryland Legislature in January. Ready temporarily served in the capacity vacated by Kim Jorns, who now serves as the Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party.

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Eagle Archive: Gridiron beginnings 120 years ago were humble for 'Green Terror'

Eagle Archive: Gridiron beginnings 120 years ago were humble for 'Green Terror'

By Kevin Dayhoff

November 30, 2011

This season has marked the 120th anniversary of the football team at McDaniel College.

According to Dr. James Lightner's history of the college, "Fearless and Bold," the first football season at then-Western Maryland College, in 1891, consisted of five games.

"On October 31, 1891, the first WMC football game was played in Westminster" against Pennsylvania College, now known as Gettysburg College... http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-1204-20111130,0,4142448.story


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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.


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

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Once and Future Political Subject
Roy Meachum
Georgia’s Newt Gingrich made column fodder with his 1994 Contract with America, which helped him achieve the Speaker of the House of Representatives and spotted him high up on the list of presidential possible successors, next to the vice president. Ohio’s John Boehner holds the job now.

So, what is your plan?
Joe Charlebois
What will the next President of the United States do with the millions of people here illegally? Better yet, what will the next president do with those who have been here for decades and have generations of family that have been born here?

Thursday, December 1, 2011

From the Heart … For A Child
Joan Marie Aquilino
As you read these words you’ll find yourself in the last few hours of Christmas Cash for Kids on WFMD 9:30AM. Tomorrow it’s all over and you can either be a part of a marvelous Frederick Tradition that reaches back 36 years…..or


The Wrong Foot Forward
Amanda Haddaway
Most government entities have some sort of ethics ordinance that is generally intended to ensure the elected officials in that area act appropriately and disclose matters that may impact their positions of power.

Kicking ’em to the curb…
Blaine R. Young
We all know about superheroes. In modern mythology they possess great powers, and generally assert their powers for the public good. And, of course, in my mind, the greatest of all superheroes was Superman.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Don’t Let the Door…….
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In an historic, extraordinary step in the proper direction for the economic future of our great country, Rep. Barney Frank (D., MA) announced Monday that he is retiring from Congress.

Prelude To A Wedding
Tom McLaughlin
Malta, Montana – Island Airways? In Montana? In Montana? This was the airline we were supposed to take from Billings to Glasgow for my daughter’s wedding. Montana just does not conjure in my mind palm trees, sandy beaches and azure seas. In fact, I don’t think there is an island anywhere in Big Sky country.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Holidays Here
Roy Meachum
The holidays flood Market Street. When Pushkin took me for a Thanksgiving stroll, there was nobody in sight. Stores were not open downtown. Few cars prowled about.

Charting Solutions To Charter School Problems
Earl 'Rocky' Mackintosh
There are creative ways in which tenants and charter school start-ups can reduce their annual rental payments by employing innovative financing and longer term leases.

Holiday Weekend “Efficiencies”
Nick Diaz
So, Thanksgiving break is over. Thursday was one of those outstanding family days, when our grown children, grandchildren, in-laws, and out-laws got together. We talked too much, ate too much, watched football too much (actually, there ain’t no such thing as too much of any of those.)

Monday, November 28, 2011

A less perfect Union
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
We don't expect a perfect Union. The Founders didn't promise perfection; they promised a structure in order to work toward a "more" perfect one. Historically, we always understood that perfection in government is a fantasy, politics is a people business. That's where the problem comes in.

On the other hand…..
Cindy A. Rose
My friend and colleague, Steve Berryman penned a recent piece in The Frederick News Post entitled "Occupy the Lazy Boy." Frankly, I'd like these protesters to Occupy Reality, a Job, a Shower, some Dignity and most of all their own Homes.

Pluses and Minuses of Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan
Michael Kurtianyk
Whatever happened to Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan? Remember that one from the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza? It’s the one where there will be a 9% business flat tax; a 9% individual flat tax; and a 9% national sales tax.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Om Misr/Mother Egypt
Roy Meachum
There is no Thanksgiving in Egypt. But with elections scheduled Monday, Cairo’s Tahrir Square was filled with noises, gunshots and tear gas and, most of all, people. The Square was not the birthplace of Arab Spring, but its best known symbol.

Football in America
Joe Charlebois
Football may not hold the title of “America’s Pastime,” but it is the strongest thread that is woven through the fabric of our American sports quilt.


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