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Monday, September 28, 2009

Baltimore Sun Bank Failures graph


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September 28, 2009 story Treasurys rise for 5th straight day even as stocks rebound; investors cautious ahead of data SARA LEPRO ,AP Business Writer ...bill rose to 0.10 percent from 0.09 percent. Its discount rate was 0.11 percent. The cost of borrowing between banks was flat. The British Bankers' Association said the rate on three-month loans in dollars ? the London Interbank Offered... TAGS: Bonds, Abbott Laboratories, Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Xerox Corporation

September 28, 2009 story FDIC chair calls for federal regulation of bank overdraft fees CANDICE CHOI, JEANNINE AVERSA ,AP Business Writers ...industry earned about $29 billion from overdraft fees, according to Oliver Wyman, a Boston-based consulting firm for the banking industry. As part of the changes announced last week, the Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo...TAGS: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., National Government, Central Bank, Lawyers, Consumers

September 28, 2009 story FDIC likely will require banks to prepay $36 billion fees to replenish deposit insurance fund MARCY GORDON ,AP Business Writer
...executives and a government official said. The banking industry prefers that option over a special...FDIC look as if it were beholden to the banking industry, experts say. Losses on...an ad hoc basis," said Bert Ely, a banking industry consultant in Alexandria, Va... TAGS: U.S. Department of Treasury, Air and Space Accidents, Prices, Heads of State, Emergency Planning

September 23, 2009 column Hale facing long odds in bailing out 1st Mariner Jay Hancock: … to fix a money-losing bank or have it seized by the government was the early 1990s. The trucking executive had gained control of the Bank of Baltimore, which lent itself into trouble in the last real estate crash.

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McDaniel College Founder’s Dinner

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Outside of the Gill Center Gymnasium at McDaniel College


Night view outside of the Gill Center Gymnasium at McDaniel College http://www.mcdaniel.edu/ Sept. 26, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yc2oyvp

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Agenda for the Westminster Mayor and Common Council Meeting of September 28, 2009

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Agenda for the Westminster Mayor and Common Council Meeting of September 28, 2009

AGENDA http://www.westgov.com/citygov/citygov_council_agendas.html

CITY OF WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND

Mayor and Common Council Meeting of September 28, 2009

1. CALL TO ORDER

T-3 Presentation by the Kiwanis Club

2. MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF AUGUST 24 (CLOSED SESSION) AND SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3. PUBLIC HEARING:

2009 Comprehensive Plan for Westminster

4. CONSENT CALENDAR:

August 2009 Departmental Operating Reports

Third Amendment to Parking Lease Agreement No. A-590 – Albion Parking Lot

2009 Justice Assistance Grant Program

5. REPORTS FROM THE MAYOR

6. ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS:

Resolution No. R09-8 – Adoption of 2009 Comprehensive Plan for Westminster

7. REPORTS FROM STANDING COMMITTEES

8. UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

a. None as of September 24, 2009

9. NEW BUSINESS

a. Budget Amendment No. 1

10. DEPARTMENT REPORTS

11. CITIZEN COMMENTS

12. ADJOURN


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January 12, 2009 January 12, 2009
December 8, 2008 December 8, 2008
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October 27, 2008 October 27, 2008
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http://twitpic.com/jgvsy Agenda for the Westminster Mayor and Common Council Meeting of September 28, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/y9whz9a

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

The family at Bud’s at Silver Run

The family at Bud’s at Silver Run

The family at “Bud’s at Silver Run” on September 11, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yca3non

Left to right: CB, me, the Mom and the Ebullient Grammificus

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“Bud’s at Silver Run” http://www.budsatsilverrun.com/

My Sunday, September 20, 2009 Carroll Eagle Archives column - http://tinyurl.com/yca3non - was about visiting historic Silver Run on Sept. 11, 2009.

I ended the column by sharing that another one of the great pleasures in visiting Silver Run is, you guessed it, eating. And why not; Silver Run happens to be the home of one Carroll County’s elegant fine dining experiences, “Bud’s of Silver Run.”

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See also: Silver Run MD and Bud’s at Silver Run restaurant is rich in history http://tinyurl.com/yajnvhr

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2009/09/silver-run-md-and-buds-at-silver-run.html http://tinyurl.com/yajnvhr

(For more about “Bud’s at Silver Run,” call them at 410-346-6816 or visit them at http://www.budsatsilverrun.com/.)

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20090911 The family at Buds at Silver Run

20090911 Buds (14) The family at “Bud’s at Silver Run” on Sept. 11, 2009 Left to right: CB, me, the Mom and the Ebullient Grammificus

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Dedication of fire hall in 1899 was a hot time in Manchester

Dedication of fire hall in 1899 was a hot time in Manchester

http://explorecarroll.com/community/3458/EAGLEARCHIVE/ http://tinyurl.com/ybfjuos

EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 9/27/09

This month marks the 110th anniversary of The Manchester Fire Engine and Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 fire hall, which was dedicated Sept. 2, 1899, in a community-wide celebration.

The fire company is part of a storied history of Manchester that goes back hundreds of years, even before the German and English settlers first appeared on the scene in the early 1700s.

Read the entire column here: Dedication of fire hall in 1899 was a hot time in Manchester

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@CarrollEagle column: dedication of Manchester MD fire hall in 1899–KDayhoff http://tinyurl.com/ybfjuos

http://www.explorecarroll.com/ column: dedication of Manchester MD fire hall in 1899– KDayhoff http://tinyurl.com/ybfjuos
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Recent columns in The Tentacle by Kevin E. Dayhoff


September 23, 2009
Big Media Missing the Point
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Everyone who bickers about the size of the crowd in Washington on September 12, or what network covered it and what media did not cover it, or whether the protest was the work of conservatives or un-American racists is sorely missing the significance of the entire event.

September 16, 2009
Enough Already…
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In the last week, we have witnessed a full-court press by President Barack Obama, in his efforts to push forward broad sweeping health care reform. He’s everywhere. He’s everywhere…

September 9, 2009
Two Plus Two Equals Five
Kevin E. Dayhoff
By now we have all had an opportunity to either read or watch President Barack Obama’s national address to our schoolchildren that aired yesterday at high noon.

September 2, 2009
The Perils of Facebook
Kevin E. Dayhoff
For better or worse, new social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter are here to stay – that is, until something new comes along – like, tomorrow.

August 31, 2009
The Legacy of Sen. Ted Kennedy
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The sad death of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy last week brought with it a wave of sadness about the tumultuous events of the last four decades in our country.

August 26, 2009
Cindy’s Restaurant…
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On Sunday President Barack Obama, his extended family and an entourage of friends and colleagues, arrived in a "New England paradise," Martha's Vineyard, for a much-deserved vacation.

August 19, 2009
Hippy Dippy Stardust and Golden Memories
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In case you missed all the recent over-hyped media coverage, forty years ago the weekend of peace, love, and revolution took place in the garden at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm in upstate New York.

August 12, 2009
Free Speech was great while it lasted
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Maryland’s Democrat U. S. Senator Ben Cardin got quite an earful at a town hall meeting Monday night in Towson on healthcare reform. Although I choose not to attend, according to many published accounts, those who did go soundly jeered and booed him throughout the evening.

Biography

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I had a great time at the McDaniel Founders’ Dinner this evening




I had a great time at the McDaniel Founders’ Dinner this evening

I had a great time at the McDaniel Founders’ Dinner this evening. The event was superbly organized and there were about 360 great folks who attended.

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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Silver Run MD and Bud’s at Silver Run restaurant is rich in history

Silver Run MD and Bud’s at Silver Run restaurant is rich in history

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EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 9/20/09 (Enlarge)

In a quaint small town in northern Carroll County, Silver Run, happens to be the home of one Carroll County’s elegant fine dining experiences, “Bud’s of Silver Run.” (For more about “Bud’s at Silver Run,” call them at 410-346-6816 or visit them at http://www.budsatsilverrun.com/.)

Silver Run is about eight miles north of Westminster and perhaps 20 miles south of Gettysburg, on Littlestown Pike. You will find it nestled perfectly in our county’s beautiful countryside. It is a little town that looks so pretty, you’d think that Disney or a movie production company built it.

However, it’s real. Apparently I’m not the only fan of Silver Run and Bud’s; it seems that many folks have already discovered the place. Not only was the restaurant full the evening I went, but we recognized many familiar faces there.

Read the rest of the column here: Silver Run MD and Bud’s at Silver Run restaurant is rich in history

… the home of one Carroll Co MD’s elegant fine dining experiences, “Bud’s at Silver Run.” http://tinyurl.com/yca3non

Dayhoff http://www.explorecarroll.com/ Silver Run MD is rich in history, yet still a real hometown http://tinyurl.com/yca3non

http://www.explorecarroll.com/community/3421/EAGLE%20ARCHIVE/ http://tinyurl.com/yca3non

When he is not watching Anthony Bourdain, Kevin Dayhoff may reached at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/

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“Bud’s at Silver Run” Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/j6iuk

http://www.budsatsilverrun.com/ Sept. 11, 2009 http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ http://tinyurl.com/yca3non

http://twitpic.com/j6iuk “Bud’s at Silver Run,” http://www.budsatsilverrun.com/ Sept. 11, 2009 http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ http://tinyurl.com/yca3non

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Carter Clews Dir of Communications ALG responds to NBC

Carter Clews Dir of Communications ALG responds to NBC

ALG Response to NBC Accusations on Politico: “We did our due diligence.”

http://www.getliberty.org/

Related:
Calderone: NBC News prez blasts ALG: 'reckless' and 'defamatory' UPDATE http://tinyurl.com/y8ffzu9

Carter Clews, Director of Communications, Americans for Limited Government

We at Americans for Limited Government are saddened that instead of helping us to get to the bottom of
the hateful email that was indeed sent from NBC’s server, and this can be verified, and was not tampered with, which can also be verified, that NBC President Steve Capus has instead chosen to circle the wagons and protect what is indefensible with hysterical, frantic accusations.

This email has left a digital footprint that is undeniable. We did our due diligence. We have confirmed that it indeed came from NBC’s server and Jane Stone's email address.

As before, we renew our offer that we made to both Ms. Stone and NBC President Capus over the phone today to get to the bottom of who sent this email from Ms. Stone’s Blackberry email address. That offer remains open, and we would like it very much if both Ms. Stone and NBC would issue an apology to both Americans for Limited Government, and Mr. Alex Rosenwald, who was the target of this hateful email.

ALG Statement in Response to NBC “Bite me, Jew Boy” Email

Bill Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government

Americans for Limited Government is appalled that
an employee of the NBC news network apparently felt it was appropriate to send an email to an ALG employee, in response to a standard news release, saying, “Bite me, Jew Boy.”

According to ALG records, the email came from the Blackberry and email address of Jane Stone, a producer for NBC’s Dateline. The email was sent to Alex Rosenwald, the ALG Director of Media Outreach. The news release to which Ms Stone apparently responded was
one in which ALG called upon Congress to defund ACORN.

Americans for Limited Government does not contend that NBC or its parent company GE, are anti-Semitic. What is highly disturbing, however, is that there clearly is a culture at NBC that has allowed this person who clearly has issues to go unchecked.

Ms Stone claims she did not send the offensive email. If that is not the case, we at ALG call upon her to help ascertain who did send it using her Blackberry and her email address. If Ms Stone did, in fact, send it, we at ALG call upon Ms Stone to apologize to Mr. Rosenwald, and we call upon the NBC hierarchy above Ms Stone to join her in issuing that apology.

Attachments:
Anti-Semitic email from NBC to ALG, September 24th, 2009.

20090924 Carter Clews Dir of Communications ALG responds to NBC
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Calderone: NBC News prez blasts ALG: 'reckless' and 'defamatory' UPDATE

Carter Clews, the Director of Communications, Americans for Limited Government, has in the past, lived in Westminster, MD, involved in disagreement with NBC News…
NBC News prez blasts ALG: 'reckless' and 'defamatory' UPDATE

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/NBC_News_prez_blasts_ALG_reckless_and_defamatory.html

September 25, 2009 Categories:
Networks

NBC News president Steve Capus fired back at
Americans for Limited Government Friday, after the conservative group published an email allegedly from NBC producer Jane Stone to its director of media outreach Alex Rosenwald, with one line: “Bite me Jew Boy.”

“I’m still in shock, and outraged that this reckless organization would go out with such a defamatory, irresponsible statement,” Capus told POLITICO. “We have done a complete email analysis, all of our IT, all of our records.”

Here's what both sides agree on: Stone responded yesterday to a mass email from ALG.

[…]

UPDATE: Carter Clews, Director of Communications for Americans for Limited Government, has issued a statement following Capus' interview with POLITICO. And NBC has put out an official statement, too Both are after the jump.

We at Americans for Limited Government are saddened that instead of helping us to get to the bottom of the hateful email that was indeed sent from NBC's server, and this can be verified, and was not tampered with, which can also be verified, that NBC President Steve Capus has instead chosen to circle the wagons and protect what is indefensible with hysterical, frantic accusations.

This email has left a digital footprint that is undeniable. We did our due diligence. We have confirmed that it indeed came from NBC's server and Jane Stone's email address.

As before, we renew our offer that we made to both Ms. Stone and NBC President Capus over the phone today to get to the bottom of who sent this email from Ms. Stone's Blackberry email address. That offer remains open, and we would like it very much if both Ms. Stone and NBC would issue an apology to both Americans for Limited Government, and Mr. Alex Rosenwald, who was the target of this hateful email.

UPDATE 2: NBC's statement:

Americans for Limited Government has chosen to launch an outrageous, reckless attack and smear campaign against an NBC News employee. Faced with irrefutable evidence that our employee did nothing more than ask to be removed from an email mailing list, the organization has maliciously published a fabricated email.

Our employee never sent any such email.. She is completely innocent of the outrageous charges and is being used by an organization to make a self-serving point. This is a shameless, hateful and defaming act which should be roundly denounced.

By Michael Calderone 05:57 PM


Read Mr. Calderone’s entire article here: NBC News prez blasts ALG: 'reckless' and 'defamatory' UPDATE

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Five windows and a door




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Frederick News-Post: Troopers: Four found dead in Mount Airy home

Troopers: Four found dead in Mount Airy home

Originally published in the Frederick News-Post: September 25, 2009 - Updated 10:50 PM, September 25, 2009

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/displayBreaking.htm?StoryID=95728

By AP Associated Press

Mount Airy — Four people have been found dead in a house in Mount Airy , Maryland State Police said.

Spokesman Greg Shipley said troopers found the four, two adults and two children, about 5:30 p.m. today in a single-family home in the 300 block of Contour Road.
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Flight of MD Millionaires Haunts O'Malley Budget Policy

Flight of MD Millionaires Haunts O'Malley Budget Policy by: Mark

http://yrnetwork.com/blogs/2905/view.aspx?article=560

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“Of course millionaires are leaving Maryland,” exclaimed Anirban Basu as he discussed the deteriorating economic conditions facing Maryland’s citizens and businesses.

Basu, an economist and CEO of Sage Policy Group, was the keynote speaker at the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO) summer conference last week. In analyzing the decline of revenues from personal income taxes paid to the state, Basu attributed part of the decline to Governor O’Malley’s initiative last year to raise the tax rate on earners of $1 million or more.

Under the O’Malley proposal enacted into law in the 2008 Session, the top marginal tax rate was increased from 5.5% to 6.25%. When coupled with the local income tax, some Maryland filers are now taxed at a combined 9.45% personal income tax rate – or they can move to a low tax state where there is no personal income tax.

Prior to the O’Malley tax increase, a miniscule 0.3% of Maryland taxpayers (taxpayers with $1 million or more income) contributed 15% of the total revenues for the state's personal income tax receipts.

We can expect the Comptroller’s office to provide final figures on the flight of millionaires from Maryland in October, but the initial analysis was not good. As reported in the Wall Street Journal (
click here) in May:

“One year later, nobody's grinning. One-third of the millionaires have disappeared from Maryland tax rolls. In 2008 roughly 3,000 million-dollar income tax returns were filed by the end of April. This year there were 2,000, which the state comptroller's office concedes is a ‘substantial decline.’ On those missing returns, the government collects 6.25% of nothing. Instead of the state coffers gaining the extra $106 million the politicians predicted, millionaires paid $100 million less in taxes than they did last year - even at higher rates.”

This ill-fated policy decision represents a $206 million shortfall of the current $800 million hole in the O’Malley deficit. It is likely that state employees will be forced to cough up at least $34 million (if the furlough is comparable to last year's furlough plan) although many analysts expect even deeper cuts into state employee salaries. O'Malley told local officials at the MACO conference that they should expect $250 million in cuts to local aid.

This is just one of a great number of bad policy decisions made by the O’Malley Administration. As state employees, local governments and others face the day of reckoning this week for the announcement of the next round of cuts, they will realize that it’s not just the “Great Recession” but also the misguided O'Malley budget policy that places on them the burden of cleaning up the state’s budget crisis.

- - Maryland Senate Republican Caucus

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Virginia Tech April 16 Memorial

Virginia Tech April 16 Memorial

September 21, 2009

Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/y9db2az
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http://twitpic.com/j0yrw 20090921 VT mem (1): “Virginia Tech Memorial 1” September 21, 2009 http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ http://tinyurl.com/y9db2az
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http://twitpic.com/j0z5k 20090921 VT mem (5): “Virginia Tech Memorial 5 – We Will Prevail” September 21, 2009 http://www.kevindayhoff.net/
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http://twitpic.com/j0zaj 20090921 VT mem (11): “Virginia Tech Memorial 11 – We Remember” September 21, 2009 http://www.kevindayhoff.net/
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http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/09/virginia-tech-april-16-memorial.html http://tinyurl.com/y9db2az

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Related: http://twitpic.com/izm9n “Virginia Tech exit 118b” September 21, 2009 Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/ych4tp8

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/09/virginia-tech-exit-118b.html http://tinyurl.com/ych4tp8

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Virginia Tech exit 118b


Virginia Tech exit 118b
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