Wicomico Politics
Is Wicomico County Planning on Stealing Farmers’ Land?
Monday’s Daily Times featured a letter to the editor from a Darlene Hammond of Salisbury. I don’t know Ms. Hammond, nor do I totally endorse her argument. What I do endorse, and so should you, is the idea behind.
It appears that a group in Wicomico County, led by Councilman Bill McCain and those [...]
The PAC-14 Fiasco - Part II …
… Who Will Decide How This Money Will Be Spent?
This winds up being the $64,000 Question. To date the public has been pushed aside, ignored, and even deceived when it comes to answering this question. Remember, the proposal that’s floating around involves the spending of millions of dollars of both your tax dollars and your [...]
The PAC-14 Fiasco - Part I …
… How Will YOUR Money Be Spent?
PAC-14, Salisbury / Wicomico’s local public access channel, wants to increase your monthly cable bill by $0.85. Personally, I don’t see much of a problem with the amount. But make no mistake - there is a problem. In fact, there are several problems:
How Will YOUR Money Be Spent?
Who Will [...]
Are Dispensary Board Meetings Public?
They should be. I thought the WCLCB was subject to the Maryland Open Meetings law. Maybe I’m wrong….
I received a call this weekend from someone telling me that there was supposed to be a meeting of the Wicomico County Liquor Control Board on Tuesday and that I might want to attend. Today [...]
Liquor Board Lies …
… and the Daily Times prints them all.
Greg Latshaw should be ashamed. Unlike his cohort Laura D’Alessandro, he isn’t new. He’s a guy, so he shouldn’t cry either. Why then did he write an article in Sunday’s Daily Times that appears to parrot the lies told by WCLCB chair Stewart Haemel? [...]
PAC-14 - The Smell Isn’t Going Away
Try as they might, the smell isn’t going away at PAC-14. Despite pulling the plug on their planned presentation before the Wicomico County Council, the disastrous performance at Monday night’s Salisbury Council meeting will linger for quite a while.
It’s obvious that a few individuals with a bunker mentality think that by holing up the [...]
A Cloud Over PAC-14? – Part II
On Sunday, we looked at the problems of excessive cost and the fact that what PAC-14 proposes is a de facto tax on all Comcast customers in Wicomico County. Today, we examine the veil of secrecy around the formulation of this proposal and why the Salisbury (and Wicomico) councils need to slow things down a [...]
A Cloud Over PAC-14? – Part I
One item on Monday’s Salisbury City Council agenda is Resolution No. 1673 - “authorizing mayor to sign a joint letter with Wicomico County requesting that Comcast provide support to PAC14 for the acquisition of capital facilities and equipment”. Sounds pretty innocuous, doesn’t it? It probably would be EXCEPT:
the proposal is riddled with excessive spending
there would [...]
Rick Pollitt - Let’s Drag Our Feet
In Thursday’s Daily Times, an op-ed by Wicomico County Executive Rick Pollitt attempts to argue the County Council should not make any hasty decisions about the WCLCB. Unfortunately, Pollitt’s arguments are so one sided that they infer a position that he claims not to take - namely keeping the dispensary system intact.
Pollitt opens his [...]
WCLCB - Will Privatization Cost County Taxpayers Money?
That seems to be the $64,000 question; or according to the Daily Times - the $288,000 question. The answer is almost assuredly - NO!
My only quarrel with this morning’s well researched piece by Greg Latshaw is the title - “Privatizing liquor would cost $288K“. As Latshaw addresses in the article, increased licensing fees [...]
WCLCB - Just More of Your Tax Dollars at Work
Here’s the latest example of your tax dollars at work - a full page piece of political progaganda in Metropolitan Magazine - courtesy of your friends at the Wicomico County Liquor Control Board.
Note that this is essentially a copy of those expensive postcards that we discussed in an earlier post. Remember that Haemel, Alessi [...]
Wicomico Tax Dollars Supporting Marxist Doctrine
I know, it sounds a bit over-the-top. It also happens to be true.
While I seldom agree with Bill Duvall on matters of public education, he happens to be dead on in this post. The National Education Association (NEA) has always promoted a leftist agenda. Two of their latest forays into socialism are [...]
WCLCB - Two Cents for Socialism
In a recent post on the Wicomico County Liquor Control Board I was amazed to see this comment posted on Salisbury News:
I’m not hearing any reasons or logic in your post as to why privitization (sic) would be beneficial …just a lot of rethortic (sic). Nice try though G.A.
The commenter, “two cents”, has been a [...]
WCLCB - Dispensary Changes Not Feasible?
Without a doubt, Bill Clinton’s greatest legacy will be his affect on rhetoric. Ignore every fact placed in front of you and stick to your message. A letter to the editor in Tuesday’s Daily Times from former Wicomico County Councilman Victor Laws ignores every fact and sticks to the WCLCB’s message - we [...]
WCLCB - Did You Know? Part II
Yesterday’s post on the current shenanigans of the Wicomico County Liquor Control Board motivated me to visit their website. What did I find? More political advertising at the expense of Wicomico County taxpayers!
What greats you upon entering the WCLCB website?
Fact
By law, Wicomico County is paid quarterly all profit, after all expenses, from the [...]
