Public Safety
Salisbury Fire Department - A Real Need or More Toys for the Boys?
At tonight’s Salisbury Council meeting expect Mayor Barrie Tilghman’s lapdog majority to approve several items with respect to the Salisbury Fire Department. One of these is the declaration of surplus of surplus of three trucks. One truck is eight years old, the other six. While I was unable to find details in the council’s briefing [...]
Caesar’s Wife #2
It’s being reported elsewhere that the State’s Attorney is completing his self-imposed exile, and the Evelyn Woods Speed Reading and Substance Abuse Awareness Course, and will be back in the office shortly ready to mete out justice to malefactors large and small. Too bad, if true.
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It’s A Caesar’s Wife Thing
The events of Friday evening and Saturday surrounding the State’s Attorney for Wicomico County have generated a lot of discussion, news source reporting, comments from bloggers near and far, and a public admission statement from Mr. Ruark.
Credit where credit is due: According to reports, Mr. Ruark was compliant with the arresting officer(s). In [...]
Would Rick Pollitt Be The Arbitrator?
I happen to agree with the Wicomico County Council’s veto override of the labor code to establish collective bargaining with binding arbitration for the County’s Sheriff’s deputies. I do not, however, agree with the persistent, and false, allegations that have been thrown at County Executive Rick Pollitt regarding his supposed role at arbitrator.
On multiple [...]
Pollitt Veto Overridden - Wicomico Voters Cannot Have Cake and Eat It Too
Last week, Wicomico County Executive Rick Pollitt vetoed Bill 2007-03, the County Council’s legislation establishing a county labor code and collective bargaining and binding arbitration for the Sheriff’s Deputies. At today’s meeting of the Wicomico County Council, the Council unanimously voted to override the County Executive’s veto.
This legislation has been highly contentious, and will [...]
Can Wicomico Deputies Receive What They Ask?
This is the bottom line question regarding Wicomico County Executive Rick Pollitt’s veto of County Council legislation setting up the collective bargaining / binding arbitration apparatus for the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Department. This is one of those few occasions where I don’t claim to have the right answer.
Pollitt is absolutely correct that the Wicomico [...]
Binding Arbitration for Sheriff’s Deputies
At a too rare (in my opinion) evening meeting the Wicomico County Council met to hold a public hearing for proposed legislation to enact collective bargaining and binding arbitration for the deputies of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Department. While only a few citizens spoke, support seemed to be firmly behind the deputies.
There is no [...]
More Media Bias, Less Police Protection, Fewer Readers, Less Advertising
Buried in Tuesday’s article about the Salisbury Council meeting were a few paragraphs about the voices of city residents who are concerned about losing two police substations. When will the “Tilghman Times” learn that readers, and advertisers, are leaving the city of Salisbury because of the inept Tilghman administration, which the management of the [...]
The Citizens of Charm City Charge the Barricades
I recommend that you read P. Kenneth Burn’s insightful op-ed concerning Baltimore’s homicide rate.
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Bill Gordy Can’t Afford A Car?
If you are a long time reader, then you know that I am opposed to take home cars for police officers. I’ve heard all of the arguments and a couple of them are actually persuasive. I am just not convinced that the taxpayer is receiving an adequate bang for their buck with this [...]
It’s For the Community
Perhaps Salisbury Councilman Gary Comegys is test marketing a trick for the Democrat party. A big Dem ploy is to justify a particularly egregious act of wasteful government spending by claiming that “it’s for the children”. Gary is justifying tens of thousands in wasteful spending by the fire department because “it’s for the [...]
I’m Sure You’ve Seen This But ….
You’ve probably already seen this on “Salisbury News“, but I had to post it up on YouTube. I know that there are lot of “Joey’s” out there but the whole world deserves to see these videos.
This video is from the first Salisbury Career Firefighters forum held February 20, 2007 at the Knights of [...]
Media Monday 070611
Sometimes you just have to give the devil his due. Sure, I love to criticize the “Tilghman Times”, but we are seeing more balance in their coverage and on the op-ed side of the paper. The most recent example is their publication this morning of an excellent column by Salisbury Councilwoman Debbie Campbell concerning the [...]
Markets Work, Governments Don’t - Even In Salisbury
Wednesday the Salisbury City Council will adopt the FY 2008 budget. It appears that the council will adopt the “Bubba Plan”, authored by announced Nobel Laureate Gary Comegys.
Under the Comegys plan Police officers will receive a raise this year, but with no plan to bring them to parity over the long term. Fire [...]
Will The Signatures Hold
Now that a sufficient number of signatures to bring Salisbury’s tax cap change to referendum have been turned in to the city clerk there is speculation that enough signatures will be thrown out to invalidate the petition. Is this possible? Yes. Is it likely? No.
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