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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Men Behaving Badly
Patricia A. Kelly
Again, it happens. Two, not one, powerful, accomplished men have behaved disappointingly again. As Time implied on a recent cover, we would say they were behaving like pigs, but we are reluctant to offend the pigs.
Chris Cavey
Many people look to Memorial Day weekend as the kick-off for the summer vacation season. The Bay Bridge will be jammed and in Ocean City kids will be squealing while playing in the sand. Families will picnic and visit with each other all across the nation.
Blaine R. Young
The images coming in this week from Joplin, Missouri, are as shocking as they are heartbreaking. Large sections of the city are reduced to nothing but rubble.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Honoring Sacrifice
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Hopefully, you and your family will pause this Memorial Day to remember those men and women in uniform who have gone before us and made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms and our way of life.
Tom McLaughlin
Even when he was deep into his Alzheimer’s state, Dad always seemed to know when it was Memorial Day – Decoration Day, as he called it. I guess it might have been the war movies that showed constantly on the television that clued him in, or maybe he just knew.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Five Months Later
Roy Meachum
The Board of Commissioners’ swearing-in happened a little over five months ago; I was there.
Shawn Burns
When they operate as intended, local government commissions and boards and the people who serve on them, contribute a great deal to the community in which they serve.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Still “Left Behind”
Steven R. Berryman
If today is Monday, and you are reading this, then neither one of us was “Raptured Up” and/or everybody was “left behind.”
Michael Kurtianyk
This is the article I wasn’t going to write. I wasn’t going to write about the end of the world; I also wasn’t going to write about “The Rapture.” Nor was I going to lend credence to that side of the religious debate.
Friday, May 20, 2011
A REVIEW: Clockwork Orange: Coming of Age
Roy Meachum
In the basement of the old Francis Scott Key Hotel, a true metamorphosis has taken place. After shaky starts, attention must be paid to the Maryland Ensemble Theatre for the professionalism of their productions.
Joe Charlebois
One petition has failed while another will apparently succeed. The petition to overrule the commissioner’s selection of a committee to write a charter for Frederick County and instead have a special election to elect one failed terribly due to numerous mistakes in the implementation of the petition campaign.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Enough is enough is enough is enough is…
Joan Marie Aquilino
How much further can the average, law abiding, taxpaying citizen bend over? This article may seem totally out there to some, but I’m betting the people that read TheTentacle.com on a regular basis will know exactly what I’m talking about.
Amanda Haddaway
The failure of the petition drive to overturn the current charter writing board and force a special election was announced last Friday, but the petitioners may not be done yet.
Blaine R. Young
Many of you may have noticed statements attributed to me from time to time since the current Board of County Commissioners took office to the effect that being a county commissioner is not my idea of a “dream job,” and that I am going to serve this one term and that is it.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
In Search of The Meaning in Life
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Last Saturday was a study in paradoxes as I found myself sitting in the third largest university chapel in the world, the Princeton University Chapel, attending the graduation ceremonies of what must be one of the smallest and most unique college in the world, Westminster Choir College of Rider University.
Tom McLaughlin
Kuching, Malaysian Borneo – I am sure there have been millions, no billions, of words written about how technology has frustrated the people who reside on this planet. And here are a few more.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
My Mississippi Deluge
Roy Meachum
Reports from my native South mention the huge Mississippi River deluge of 1937; I witnessed that. Living with my grandparents in Wynne, I was eight-years-old and New Orleans city-ignorant. The following quote is from my memoir, “A Redneck’s Progress:”
Farrell Keough
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