Everyone in Worcester, Wicomico, and Somerset Counties is a small business owner or a farmer. That’s the impression you would get, listening to the Maryland General Assembly District 38 candidates during a debate at Wor-Wic Community College on Wednesday night. Welcome to the Lower Eastern Shore, home to small business people and chicken farmers. All… [Read more…]
September 21, 2010
The trip isn’t over till it’s over . . . And I’m not sure it’s ever over . . . Ocean City Summer Turns Into Fall The 2010 season is just about done in Ocean City. Delmarvelous Bike Week finished it off with a roar. The bikers are gone . . . and they left… [Read more…]
September 18, 2010
Delegate (and future Senator) Jim Mathias was the landslide winner in Tuesday’s Democratic primary election for Maryland State Senate in District 38, with 86 percent of the vote. Congratulations to Del. Norm Conway and Mayor Gee Williams of Berlin, who won strong endorsements from Democratic voters in the primary election for House of Delegates. Following are unofficial results… [Read more…]
September 15, 2010
Mathias Wins Democratic Primary in District 38 Del. Jim Mathias won a landslide endorsement from Lower Eastern Shore Democrats in Tuesday’s Primary Election, picking up needed momentum in his campaign for Maryland State Senate. Mathias, who was Ocean City mayor before he became a delegate to the General Assembly, won 86 percent of the vote, defeating… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
As usual, I’m taking a short break from Maryland On My Mind in August. This year, the reason is the 2010 election campaign. You may have heard that I’m running for Maryland House of Delegates in District 38B, which is all of Worcester County and part of Wicomico, on the Lower Eastern Shore. The first… [Read more…]
June 28, 2010
Democracy is easy. All you need for democracy is: 1) Voters 2) Candidates That’s all, folks. Voters + Candidates = Democracy. Everything else — political parties, opinion polls, advertising — is froth. Pretty simple, right? So what is the state of democracy in Maryland, and in the U.S. generally? We have enough voters to make… [Read more…]
June 22, 2010
Since when do U.S. generals give interviews to Rolling Stone? Double-dip recession? There was never any real question of that. You can see bigger storm clouds on the horizon. Of course, they could blow over. You never know. BP lies. So which big corporation can you trust? What about government? Everyone turns to the federal… [Read more…]
June 18, 2010
We’re going to make America first in the future, not just the past.” There it is. Write it down. Send it to the printer. Barack Obama said it in June, in Ohio. “We’re going to make America first in the future, not just the past.” You can put that on your bumper sticker. “Make America… [Read more…]
June 14, 2010
The victory of Alvin Greene, 32, in the South Carolina Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, was greeted with dismay — even laughter — by many, who thought him to be somehow less than qualified. Now the dismay is changing to excitement, as this soft-spoken man, a recently discharged veteran, quietly and calmly answers the disrespectful… [Read more…]
May 24, 2010
Frank Kratovil, Maryland’s District 1 congressman, is committed to keeping constituents informed about how busy he is, working for us on Capitol Hill. Today’s mail brings another of Rep. Kratovil’s increasingly frequent “legislative updates.” This is the second legislative update during the month of May. Do you think there’s an election coming up? The first… [Read more…]
October 14, 2010
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