Billy drops “f” bomb in workshop!!!!

  Howdy Yokels!! We’ll get back to our title in a moment. Last night’s workshop had three items to discuss; Medical Marijuana, Kirby and Tony’s task force, and changes to the council’s rules and procedures. We are all for the growth and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.  It is absolutely ludicrous that the Federal Government […]

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Editorial Talking Maryland Politics 

Otis Strives To Serve Constituents

George Wenschhof The time went by quickly recently when I sat down with Frederick County council president Bud Otis (R).  In fact, I ran over by fifteen minutes the hour he had set aside for my interview. We spoke about a lot of issues ranging

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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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