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Immigration Enforcement as a Market Mechanism
Thursday, the Baltimore Sun ran an editorial decrying Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold’s crack down on illegal immigrants. My, oh my! We can’t arrest these poor people. We’ll promote anti-immigrant feelings!
Hogwash! These people are in our country illegally. What part of that word doesn’t the Sun and their left [...]
Who is W. R. Witzke?
In Friday’s Daily Times we were treated to an oddity - a letter to the editor that was both well thought out AND very well written. It didn’t hurt that I was in full agreement with the author.
I don’t know if Witzke is a man or a woman. I don’t know whether he [...]
Why We Need A Dispensary Referendum NOW
A well thought-out and literate editorial in this morning’s Daily Times provides the answer. Our District 37 and 38 legislators lack the moral courage and political will to tackle this issue without the cover a referendum would provide.
A referendum is really not necessary. IF Wicomico’s state legislators wanted to abolish this antiquated system, [...]
Correction Requested from Board of Ed
In relation to an article in Wednesday’s Daily Times and our post covering the WCBOE meeting the Daily Times, Delmarva Dealings, and Salisbury News have all received an email WCBOE chairwoman Robin Holloway asking for a correction.
Our reporting of the quote was based on the Daily Times article. The Daily Times has not chosen [...]
Since When Does WET Speak for Me?
In Sunday’s Daily Times we are treated to a letter to the editor from John Groutt calling for Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman to appoint “a blue ribbon panel of experts and citizens to review the accidents (the recent spills at the Salisbury WWTP). Groutt happens to be the past-president of the Wicomico Environmental Trust [...]
Daily Times Editor Has Bad Night
Admittedly a minor point, but a government budget is, by definition, a fiscal matter. Therefore I was surprised to read the following headline in Monday’s Daily Times:
Public Meeting Held at School on Fiscal Budget
Webster’s defines fiscal (adjective) as:
1: of or relating to taxation, public revenues, or public debt
2: of or relating to financial [...]
Daily Times on Wicomico Department of Law
The Daily Times’ Susan Parker delivers another well written editorial this morning regarding the newly established Wicomico County Department of Law. While I don’t disagree with her logic, I believe that emphasis was misplaced on two particular points.
The City Council in Salisbury, in its typical fashion of neglecting to
take up issues that really matter [...]
The Barrie Tilghman Propaganda Show
WICO-AM, on air home of Bill Reddish and one of the few independent media sources in the Salisbury area, has finally bucked down to Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman’s rants. Starting today WICO is granting Tilghman her own weekly radio show.
That’s right folks, Barrie Tilghman has been granted FREE radio time to provide her own [...]
Why Would the Daily Times Cover-up for Barrie Tilghman
Yesterday, we ran a post about a blatant lie told by Salisbury Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman. Today, the Daily Times has again made itself complicit in the shenanigans of the Tilghman administration by attempting to cover up the same lie.
On page B1 of the Daily Times we find the following correction:
Salisbury Mayor Barrie Parsons [...]
Daily Times Prints Tilghman Lies
Let’s forget for a moment that the only reason Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman didn’t request an increase in water and sewer rates again this year is because there is an election in less than 12 months (that applies to a property tax increase as well). Let’s forget for a moment that the coverage of [...]
Satire Comes to Salisbury
Reading this morning’s piece on Barrie Tilghman’s 10th anniversary as Salisbury Mayor I questioned whether I was reading Gannett’s Daily Times or Megalopolitan’s The Beast from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop (an hilarious satire of journalism where “reporters” write stories of events that they have never seen, nor been near). Laura D’Alessandro, Tilghman press secretary and [...]
Daily Times Awards Show Poor State of Local Coverage
In this morning’s Daily Times we see that Gannett’s local outpost has gone out and won 35 awards from the Maryland - Delaware - D.C. Press Association. WOW!
Note that there was one award for an article, authored by former reporter Katherine Crowell, about the “short life span of Salisbury City Council members”. This [...]
Does the Shield Law Apply?
Struggling to retain some accuracy while sacrificing the truth, the Daily Times seems to be quite pleased that Worcester County District Court Judge Gerald Purnell has ruled that Maryland’s press shield law doesn’t apply to blogger Joe Albero. When was the last time the paper covered a civil motions hearing?
Before we go farther we [...]
What’s Important for the Salisbury City Council?
The Daily Times management seems to have a tough time getting reporter Greg Latshaw to carry water for Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman so they have reverted to one of the oldest tricks in the book - only print news that isn’t going to offend one of their masters. Why else would we be treated [...]
Media Monday 080324 - Daily Times Leads Kratovil Bandwagon
Gannett’s Daily Times just can’t help themselves. Their favorite candidate lost in the GOP primary so they must now resort to front page propaganda in support of their new favorite, Democrat congressional candidate Frank Kratovil. Today’s AP article is so riddled with false claims and innuendo that the Kratovil campaign should have been [...]
