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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Black is white, up is down

We have a problem in this county. We have a problem in this country, but we will stick to the county. It’s marginally easier to deal with, no thanks to this madness. A core group of people are not interested in productive discussions, compromises, or learning about anything that falls within the gray area of an […]

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Action Alert: ProEnglish is on the prowl again!

Hey fellow Fredericktonians, guess whose back for a visit? That’s right it’s our wonderfully articulate, sensible friends at ProEnglish. And they are so serious about our English Ordinance repeal vote that they’ve been forced to issue this: Wow a whole Action Alert for our little county!!! Aren’t we special? But all kidding aside, we are […]

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Follow up en retard (no that’s not an offensive term, cultural purists)

Last night’s meeting is not yet in the video archives on FCG TV, so the many of us who were unable to tolerate another moment of the nastyfest are not yet able to catch the rest of the train wreck. In the meantime, some thoughts are restlessly flipping around here. It is obvious that almost none of […]

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