George Wenschhof The election of Jan Gardner(D) as the first county executive of Frederick County, Maryland has perpetuated the decades long battle between two factions who primarily differ on how best to manage growth. Gardner’s actions to date have been a reversal of actions taken
Read MoreGeorge 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
Read MoreCounty Executive Jan Gardner recently met with members of the Frederick County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League to discuss the current tax equity program under which Frederick County Government reimburses the municipalities for some of the property tax revenue collected for roads, parks and recreation, planning and zoning, law enforcement and other services. She announced during her weekly public information briefing last week that she reviewed the program with the officials as required under a new state law and received favorable feedback about maintaining the current arrangement. Executive Gardner…
Read MoreThe never-ending saga of the Aurora take over of our county nursing home has taken a new turn. In today’s Frederick News Post we are alerted to a new lawsuit filed by the county: Instead, the county stated in its counterclaim that Aurora broke its contract with the county by failing to pay several employees […]
Many times tonight we felt as though we were trapped inside an episode of “The Leftovers”. For the first twenty minutes of the meeting all we saw was this: Now how are we supposed to know whether or not to drink our Purple Jesus? Or how many shots of Jackass to shoot back?! Oh well, such […]