Neighborhoods
Jim Ireton Announces for Mayor …
… With a Unique Blend of Rhetoric and Substance
Anyone who attended Jim Ireton’s announcement that he was running for Mayor had to be impressed. Ireton’s well thought out speech hit on the major problems facing Salisbury and Ireton presented common sense solutions to solving them.
The most important thing to note about Ireton’s speech was an [...]
Barrie Comegys / Daily Times Campaign for Mayor Continues
The Daily Times campaign to elect Barrie Comegys Mayor of Salisbury continues. At least the paper put today’s piece of tripe on the op-ed page as opposed to their previous piece of mis-statement and fabrication which was portrayed as reporting.
Today’s piece, purportedly authored by the Barrie Comegys himself, was laughable in its inaccuracy. It appears [...]
Salisbury Council Feels Your Pain When It Comes To Crime
As a resident of Salisbury’s Johnson Lake neighborhood (who was victim of an attack in her home) discovered Monday night, the majority of the Salisbury City Council “feels her pain” when it comes to crime. She just shouldn’t expect much to be done about it.
The woman who appeared before the Salisbury Council claims that [...]
Salisbury’s Own Nannny State and “Barack Obama Lite”
Did you know that Salisbury taxpayers have their own “community organizer” on the payroll? As the Daily Times promotes National Night Out in Salisbury, certain salient details are left out of the perfunctory puff piece.
When appearing before the Wicomico County Council a couple of months ago, Ms. Michelle Parks was described by Barrie Tilghman [...]
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 [...]
Crooked Oak Proposal: Defending the Indefensible
A goodly number of citizens spent Tuesday evening at the Youth & Civic Center in a meeting that permitted proponents and opponents of the aptly named Crooked Oak land purchase to share their thoughts in front of the County Council and on PAC-14. The County Executive did not attend. Some spoke long, and [...]
Shanie Shields Supports Study to Aid Gentrification of West Side
When large numbers of residents on Salisbury’s West Side are forced to leave their homes thanks to proposed “rehabilitation” of the area along the North Prong of the Wicomico River they should ask Councilwoman Shanie Shields if they can move in with her (in her non-city home on Jersey Road). Monday night the Salisbury [...]
Does Salisbury Really Need Police Substations?
In Thursday’s Tilghman Times, Salisbury Police Chief makes an excellent argument for shutting down police substations in Salisbury and replacing them with a “mobile substation”. On Friday, we were treated to a letter to the editor from Mr. David Ganoe applauding the Salisbury PD for its “mobile substation”. Bill Duvall admits that Webster’s [...]
Rick Pollitt to be Keynote Speaker
Wicomico County Executive Rick Pollitt will be the keynote speaker at the first meeting of the Wicomico Neighborhood Congress. The WNC will hold its first official meeting at 6PM, September 25, 2007 at Salisbury University.
The Wicomico Neighborhood Congress is designed to be a grassroots organization enabling citizens from throughout Wicomico County to come [...]
Ghost of Hearne Haunts Gary Comegys
Buried in the middle of the agenda for today’s meeting of the Salisbury - Wicomico County Planning and Zoning Commission is the following item:
REVISED FINAL COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN – CDW Salisbury Holdings LLC, represented by Davis, Bowen & Friedel – South Division Street - LBI and R-8A Residential District - #SP-0601-07A;
M-48, P-211, 214, 215, 425, [...]
Crime and Development in the Land of Barrie
Monday’s Salisbury City Council meeting should have been a total snoozefest. There was nothing controversial on the agenda. But leave it to Mayor Barrie Tilghman and her minions to make sure that dissatisfied citizens would show up to voice their concerns.
Barrie’s Chief of Police has announced that crime is down in the city. [...]
Landlord Amnesty or Another Tilghman Administration Foul Up?
If you read Wednesday’s article in the “Tilghman Times” regarding Tuesday’s Salisbury Council work session you would walk away believing that the council adopted a proposal by Councilwoman Debbie Campbell granting the city’s landlords (slumlords plus regular multi-family complex landlords) an amnesty until November 30th to comply with Salisbury’s slumlord registration guidelines. Nothing could [...]
The Sublime, the Ridiculous, and the Slumlords
Thursday’s “Tilghman Times” ran an op-ed by two local slumlords that is one of the most amusing pieces that I have ever read. I just don’t believe that the authors meant it to be funny.
Local slumlords Stuart Leer and Robert Malone claim that they, and their buddies in the Slumlord Guild (SAPOA), are victims [...]
Slumlords Siezing Pocomoke
It appears that slumlords are attempting to do to Pocomoke City what they have done to Salisbury.
The Pocomoke Tattler provides insight into “by the head” rentals south of the Pocomoke.
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The Dark Possibilities of Salisbury’s New Noise Ordinance
We all should have known that the new noise ordinance proposed by Mayor Barrie Tilghman’s crack police chief Allan Webster would have a dark side. Initially, we just assumed that Barrie was pandering to folks in certain neighborhoods since she’s up for re-election in 2009. Then, courtesy of Councilwoman Debbie Campbell, we were [...]
