Jury Still Out on Frederick County Charter

George Wenschhof Not much has changed in Frederick County, Maryland politics since the much ballyhooed vote to implement charter government took place in the 2014 election. The back and forth positions on growth that have dominated county politics for decades continues with the election of

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Who is calling the county council rudderless?

We are all familiar with last week’s county council meeting’s outcome. The Monrovia Town Center process is starting over from the beginning. We wrote about it, the Frederick News Post wrote about it and today Billy wrote about it: Great Gods on Mount Olympus hear our cries for mercy!!!! So many things to point out […]

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Recap of 9/1 meeting from the headquarters of Local Yokel

Some stuff we said to each other yesterday evening during the county sponsored book club meeting and recipe swap. It was a “true colors reveal” for Tony Chmelik–not that the layers of that onion weren’t already peeling back, but his usual respectful demeanor gave way to patronizing arrogance, and he did not manage to keep his […]

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Singing the praises of our friend Bud.

Bud has had a rough couple of weeks. These ProEnglish people unleashed a very unfair and immature attack against him. And despite what Mary, Mary quite contrary may say, we don’t believe that our County Council people need “to get used” to outside groups coming in and harassing them. We also have our fellow citizens […]

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Evening update: 8/18

If you followed along with Facebook and Twitter, you already know the outcome of the big stuff. The English-Only ordinance was repealed, and Kirby’s Law passed (he even took ownership of it and claimed it for himself). Now, like all the other counties in Maryland, council persons in Frederick County cannot bid on contracts with […]

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