Affordable Housing
Hoyer Claims Economy Needs Foreclosure Slush Fund
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) claims that the pork-laden, slush fund recently passed by Congress is needed to help stabilize the U.S. economy. Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that PG County, which is partly in Hoyer’s district, make up 30% of Maryland foreclosures. Nor does it matter [...]
The Mortgage Slush Fund Gets Bigger
As details of the $4 Billion slush fund pushed through the House by Nancy Pelosi become public, our collective stomachs should churn. Built in to this growing carbuncle are slop for an ever-growing group of pigs at the tax-funded trough.
Left-wing groups like Acorn and LaRaza will be beneficiaries of supposed spending on “affordable housing”. [...]
Mortgage Bailout Unsound - What Will Be Cost?
Hans Bader at OpenMarket.org reports that the bailout of Fannie Mae is structurally unsound. Just as distressing is the fact that the announced $25 Billion price tag is a “Wild Guess” at best.
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The Democrats’ $4 Billion Slush Fund
The Heritage Foundation outlines a $4 Billion slush fund that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts want included in any proposed bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This is just what we need - more layers of government to solve a problem caused by government.
The proposed fund is supposedly so that local [...]
The Re-Packaging of a Boondoggle
Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman’s “State of the City” address on Monday provided us with a glimpse of how a truly devious mind works. For several years Tilghman and her “Dream Team” promoted the idea of a revitalization of the “North Prong” area of the city. The unstated goal has seems to be the [...]
Barrieland’s Latest Lie - “It’s for the Seniors”
Since the first Clinton administration, “It’s for the children.”, has reigned as the all purpose cover-up for wasting taxpayers’ money. With their backs up against the wall, again, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman’s “council leadership” of Louise Smith, Gary Comegys and Shanie Shields plucked the taxpayer yet again crying, “It’s for the seniors!”. The [...]
Debbie Campbell to Lead Panel at National Affordable Housing Conference
Salisbury City Councilwoman Deborah Campbell will lead a panel discussion on “green” development at a national affordable housing conference that starts tomorrow in Washington, DC . The green development panel will discuss how a new emphasis on sustainability is changing the face of affordable housing.
Campbell, the director of Special Projects for Neighborhood Housing [...]
Bubbanomics on Parade - The Tilghman Times on Impact Fees
A suggestion to “Tilghman Times” Executive Editor Greg Bassett - Do not allow any reporter to write a story which will contain a dollar sign ($), the word “tax” or “fee” unless they can pass a basic test in economics.
The premise of Thursday’s article on the city’s impact fee proposal seems to be that impact [...]
An Impact Fee by Any Other Name
Tuesday’s Salisbury City Council work session afforded yet one more display of the intellectual giant we all know and love … Salisbury Councilman Gary Comegys.
During discussion of the proposed impact fees which the city government is finally getting around to enacting a small problem was raised. Mr. Comegys objected to the fees because he [...]
An Attempted Hijacking
Was there ever any question that Gary Comegys, John Atkins and Don Ewalt were the Barrie Tilghman / Slumlord ticket? Tuesday, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman and SAPOA made their intentions quite clear.
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Check Your Deeds
Back in December we ran a small post on the problems of ground rent in Baltimore City. Ratt, our resident commie / lefty / hippie / libertarian blogger in Snow Hill has a more in depth piece with a major update. Evidently we may have a ground rent scandal looming in Worcester County.
I’m the [...]
Coincidence?
The old mall project developers are permitted a 3 month extension to appeal the city’s demolition order; until after the council elections. When a group of voters recently asked the Salisbury Housing Board for an extension to better prepare their case against local slumlord Doug Church they were denied. Coincidence?
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Victory to the Slum Lords
Local slumlord Doug Church needed a favor. He was renting one of his hovels in violation of Salisbury’s lax 4-3 regulation. Mr. Church needed a “grandfather” waiver.
Despite vocal opposition from the neighbors of Mr. Church’s hovel, Barrie Tilghman’s illegally constructed Board of Housing Adjustments and Appeals gave another slumlord their waiver. The [...]
The Arrogance of Power … or Is It Just Another Source of Campaign Cash
The Salisbury City Council is holding a work session on January 2nd. They’ll start off with their usual closed session to discuss matters that they don’t want the public to know about (particularly in an election year), although they probably don’t meet the conditions for a closed session.
What else will Mikey and crew discuss? [...]
A Slumlord Here, a Slumlord There
If one slumlord is ok, then two must be even better. That at least is the logic of Barrieland. The Salisbury Housing Board – Adjustments and Appeals (Housing Appeals Board) met Monday, chaired by Richard Insley. If you don’t know Mr. Insley, he is one the largest slumlords in that “fair†city. I believe he [...]
