Salisbury Politics
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 [...]
Louise Smith - Mike Dunn in Drag
While millions seem to be worried about California permitting same-sex marriage, we should look inward. Barrieland may hold the distinction of having the first drag queen as city council president. While I apologize for not knowing the current politically correct term, there is a strong possibility (nay, probability) that former council president Mike [...]
Barrie Tilghman’s Dog Ate the Spreadsheet
Now that Salisbury residents officially live in an authoritarian city-state, there should be no surprise that the Tilghman administration is in no mood to provide citizens, or elected officials, with information that isn’t to Tilghman’s advantage. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that Tilghman has city solicitor Paul Wilber working overtime (using unappropriated tax [...]
Louise - What Would Uncle John Say?
The following are comments I gave during the debate over the FY2009 Salisbury city budget at Monday night’s City Council meeting:
I had not planned on coming to speak this evening. However, I had a job in Lewes this morning and on my way home I found myself driving on the John J. Williams Highway. [...]
080609 Salisbury Council Live Blog A Smashing Success
Monday night Salisbury News and Delmarva Dealings again hosted a Live Blog Event of the Salisbury City Council. This event marked the first Live Blog produced by Salisbury News‘ own Joe Albero.
Contrary to the hopes of the Barrie Bloc, who insist on deluding themselves that no one watches or listens to their shenanigans, 815 [...]
080609 - Salisbury City Council Live Blog Event
Tonight we witness the ceding of all power to the Queen of Barrieland.
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080609 - Live Blog of Salisbury City Council Tonight
Join in at 6PM for another Live Blog Event. Share your comments as we give you the blow by blow of Barrie, Louise, Gary and Shanie wasting tax dollars by the barrel full.
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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 [...]
Barrie Tilghman Achieves Goal
In her tenth year in office, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman has accomplished what most megalomaniacs only dream of. Tonight the Salisbury City Council will formally hand over all governing authority to the Queen of Barrieland.
Not a shot will be fired. Not a stone will be thrown. The only protest will come from [...]
Is Wicomico Councilman Bill McCain Just Acting Like He’s Shanie Shields?
I have to confess that I don’t know Wicomico County Councilman Bill McCain. I had assumed that he was a man of average to above average intelligence. However, recent comments by McCain can only lead to two conclusions:
McCain is approximately as intelligent as Salisbury’s resident brain trust - Councilwoman Shanie “I ain’t never [...]
Salisbury - All’s Well in the Land of Low Taxes, Toys and Safety
If I didn’t know better I would swear that our own Daily Times had shifted from (supposedly) being a newspaper to becoming a humor mag. Unfortunately not.
This morning we learn that Salisbury Councilwoman Louise Smith WON’T support higher taxes. I haven’t heard anything so humorously absurd since a friend of mine stood before [...]
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 [...]
Barrie Tilghman - I’m Gonna Get You
Back in 2007 we ran a post about a discussion I had with several Salisbury businessmen. After listening to them whine about the state of the city I asked a very simple question:
If you are so dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Salisbury, how come I don’t see you at City Council meetings [...]
Salisbury’s Cavalier Attitude to Taxpayers’ Money
Looking at the front page of this morning’s Daily Times the average Salisbury taxpayer might believe that the Salisbury City Council, even Mayor Barrie Tilghman’s RUBBER STAMP majority of Louise Smith, Gary Comegys and Shanie Shields, is looking out for the average citizen. This would be a mistake.
Spooning out a few cups from Tilghman’s [...]
Louise Smith - Next on “Issues and Answers”
Tuesday’s Salisbury City Council meeting was long and, at times, boring. However Councilwoman Louise Smith made it worth waiting ’til the end by her closing performance.
To set this up we all need to remember that Louise only allows questions to be answered IF it is to her advantage. In other words, IF she [...]
