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Hoyer's Baloney
U. S. Rep. Steny Hoyer in Capitol office. ST.
MARY'S TODAY photo
In a surprise move U. S. House of Representatives
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D. Md. 5th) says he
would favor a restoration of the "Fairness Doctrine"
which requires broadcasters to run an even amount of
drivel on tv and the radio even if no one is listening.
Since the liberal talk shows and networks go broke due
to lack of listeners, he
wants the broadcasters to pick up the tab for left wing
loonies to bloviate. Remember, when the liberals
want you to listen to their drivel, you must stop what
you are doing and tune them in and listen....there will
be a test.
MORE
The Darwin Report:
Drinking, Self-Dunking and Dead
When
Running from the Cops While Drunk,
It Pays to Be Able to Swim When Hiding in Lake
story
BODY FOUND IN HARFORD
COUNTY
Obama Plays to Race with Black
Reporters
Boy gets death threats for
shooting 1,000 lb wild boar
Homes Run Slow
St. Mary's average sold prices on homes drop more than
$50,000 in big dip, but average time on market improves
in last few months but still taking at least three times
as long to sell as during gravy days of hot market
more
Bennigan's Restaurants collapse
into bankruptcy nationwide
Give
till it helps!
Senator Ted Stevens, 6-term
Republican from Alaska, indicted for picking up $250,000
in favors from contractor dealing with gov't.
Oil hits 7-week low on demand
worries, dollar gain
Luxury Suite for Tax-hiking Board
St. Mary's Commissioners break in new meeting hall, a
$2.5 million frill it never needed!
LEONARDTOWN
--- The St. Mary's County Commissioners held fort today
in their new building which houses a new public meeting
chambers, with hushed tones, indirect lighting, plush
new chairs for the board as they pontificate from
elevated seating, worthy of the United States Supreme
Court. Two giant tv screens grind down from the
ceiling to assist with visual presentations as staff
arrive on bended knee to perform for the tv cameras.
One of the best parts of the meeting room is almost
comedic as a huge one way mirror keeps watch over the
board of commissioners, just as the one way glass in
department stores keeps an eagle eye for shoplifters.
With the commissioners sitting as the board of public
pickpockets, just this year approving a $14.5 million
hike in real estate taxes just as property values have
dropped nearly in half, the one-way mirror is very
appropriate for keeping an eye on these pickpockets, who
have ripped the wallets of the taxpayers out and taken
every last cent, while spending wildly on all manner of
glitter and gold. Only Republican Larry Jarboe
voted no to the tax hikes while phony Republican Kenny
Dement only lamented he could not spend even more money.
Taxing Tommy Mattingly reported to the Board on Tuesday
that he was present this past Friday night at the River
Concert Series, "which we sponsored", he said. Mattingly
still hasn't figured out that the Commissioners didn't
use their own money, they dipped into the pockets of the
taxpayers and gave St. Mary's College $10,000.
Meanwhile the College operates four overseas campus
locations and even brings Italian kids over here
for the summer.
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Crash and Splash
Rain and high winds once again ripped
through the area with this wreck on Great Mills Road in
Lexington Park bringing out a quick response from the
heroes of the Bay District Vol. Fire Dept.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie |
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The Bear Report:
Some residents of the
north end of St. Mary's County report seeing a black
bear wandering around. The last time a bear was
spotted in the county was prior to 1990 and a state
trooper was so scared of the bear that he shot it before
DNR rangers could arrive to use a tranquilizer gun.
The bear was stuffed and put on display in the Civil War
Museum at Point Lookout State Park.
Coast Guard searches
for missing kayaker
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GOLDEN BEACH (July 25, 2008) ---
UPDATE --- A woman
consoles another after a child drowned in a back yard
pool, below, on Thursday. According to State
Police Sgt. William Rosado, the child was left
unattended by babysitter in the back yard with the
2-year-old reported to be not breathing when pulled from
a swimming pool at the home on Dockser Drive.
Persons at the home were given instructions on how to
give CPR over the phone by the 911 center.
See more
Photos by ST. MARY'S TODAY News photographer Matthew
Ivancie
This is the pool where a Golden Beach babysitter left a
toddler unattended and the child died.
Speeding
takes a toll at the booth
Its the toll, not the poll
These drivers refused to give an inch and they never got
a chance to go the next mile at this booth on Rt. 1 in
Delaware. Photo for ST. MARY'S TODAY by Gary
Callaway
Get Amtrak back on track
Amtrak flying high as fuel prices
send motorists out to catch the train
Cops Seek Tattooed Paper Hanger
Daniel Joseph
Rickett wanted by Cops
The crack of the bat and the
crackhead in the bleachers!
Virginia executes killer
"Tell my family and friends I love them; tell
the governor he just lost my vote," Emmett said in the
chamber before he died.
Home sales decline another 15 %
this year as gas prices cripple economy
Gas
station in Waldorf robbed and other police briefs
Fined if You Do, Fined if You
Don’t
Guest Commentary
Top News
Photographer and U. S. Navy Veteran Paul Leibe Dead
Paul Curtis Leibe,
August 4, 1947 - July 23,
2008
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Shoppers paid Sen. Currie $200,000
to lobby State Officials for Favors
Sen. Ulysses Currie (D. PG County) chairs Senate Budget
Committee hearing at Annapolis last March.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo
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Landscaping by crash-team on Rt. 235
CALIFORNIA
(July 23, 2008) --- This crash on Rt. 235 took place
across from Wal-Mart about 7 pm. Heavy rains swept
the area with some hail and high winds...not that anyone
needs an excuse to wreck on the California Pike, where
dry weather works pretty good.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie
SMECO
ready to help beef up broadband in region
One Stroke in the Heat Leads to
Chopper Flight
Ethel Cleo Sellers Sparks,
77 of Great Mills, MD died at her residence on Sunday,
July 20
Thomas Irving Gross, Jr.
also known as “Tom, Jr. or Cleo”, 53, of Piney Point, MD
died July 18, 2008
Man acting oddly suddenly died on Eastern Shore
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Hellcats
from PG and Dreadlock Bandit in Waldorf keep cops
running
Hellions from PG County steal car in PG, go to Waldorf
and steal a ATV from John Deere dealership on Rt. 301 at
Vernon Road and then
MORE
Google stock sinks as
economy slows
Rock
star Obama; if we are going to have a rock star as
president, why not pick one that can sing?
Oil
prices sink as oil producers kill the economy of its
best customer
Man
stripped naked and tried to open emergency exit on
American Airlines flight, subdued by soccer team
Wind Power
While Maryland Gov. Martin O'Bull O'Malley turns down
wind turbine farm in Western Maryland mountains, Texas
hooks up biggest wind power project ever...
The
Three Stooges of Maryland Democrats
Well, who
would have thought that Ben Cardin, Barbara Mikulski and
Martin O'Malley would suddenly find a brain between them
unless it fell out of the sky...just remember the names
of these dimwits and vote against them early and often
....they all get government expense accounts for travel
or even have a free ride on the taxpayers so they don't
give a damn how much gas costs, so it doesn't bother
them that you skip lunch in order to pay for gas to get
to work...they all oppose offshore drilling in the
Atlantic....MORE
Commuter Rail to Lexington Park...how other areas make
it
work
How DC can't get its act together for light rail in
Anacostia
City Paper
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Robbers
Everywhere
in
Waldorf
Feds look at bailout of
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
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Rev. Jesse Jackson Caught
Bad-Mouthing Obama says
he would like to cut Obama's nuts off for
talking down to blacks...
Cops Charge Two
St. Mary's Men With Dealing Drugs
Fritz gains raises for
crowd of courthouse lawyers while taxes go up....but
Dement fouled out!
LEONARDTOWN
UPDATE
--St. Mary's
Commissioner Kenny Dement led the charge to give raises
to the assistant states attorneys who work for St.
Mary's States Attorney Richard Fritz. In a secret
series of meetings, closed to the public, without any
prior announcement, Commissioners Tommy Mattingly and
Jackie Russell gave their consent to the move by Dement
to fund raises for the prosecutors. The Fritz
lawyers all make around $100,000 per year and got their
cost of living increases but they also got
reclassifications which no other county employees were
able to obtain from the board, which was pointed out by
Commissioner Raley. Fritz ducked a public meeting
at which he could have made a pitch for his request.
Commissioners Dan Raley and Larry Jarboe voted against
the increases, which Raley said was unfair to all other
county employees and Fritz wrote a nasty letter dumping
on Raley and Jarboe to the Emptyprize. Fritz, who
was hiding behind the closed meeting doors, now says he
wants a public meeting and Jarboe says bring it on,
we'll have a public forum and let everyone have a
say....Will Kenny Dement, who royally screwed up this
deal by reading the wrong motion, which now does NOT
fund the raises for Fritz's assistants, be able to
continue to get tickets fixed for his pals like he used
to do? Only The Shadow knows for sure!
Dave
Weiskopf
is the new assistant county attorney, a long time
criminal attorney, Dave is set to advise the planning
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Rubbernecking causes 4-vehicle
pileup; 2 flown to trauma center
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Booze,
Smoke & Decks
LEONARDTOWN --- Latest agenda changes for St.
Mary's Alcoholic Beverage Board: violations at Cliftons
for illegal acts (couldn't be as spicy as the Lesbian
cage act at Fusion during the May meeting, but stay
tuned, outdoor smoking area at Hulas added as well as
outdoor smoking for WJ Dent Store in Tall Timbers.
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Cops Seek
Answers in Looney Boat Crash into Bridge
The Darwin Report: Big Time in Ocean City as 21' vessel
loaded with early morning bozos rams bridge abutment and
closes down Rt. 90 bridge for 3 hours; cops still
investigating, but heck, it looks like it was just a
boatload of loons...MORE
Its Midnight in the Oasis:
(July 8, 2008) Report of an individual having been bitten by a dog at a
residence at Riverbay townhomes..just minutes before
midnight on Monday. It was quite a commotion as a
dog was running loose outside, people were excited and
the cops didn't know the way to Tall Timbers for another
call at the same time...but the 911 center folks were
kind enough to give the State Police directions...one
person was reported to be in bad shape on the second
floor, a second person is reported to be not seriously
hurt. The dog was reported by an officer to be
very aggressive and the dog catcher was called to round
up Fido. Two people have been bitten and the clock
ticks down before a lawman dispatches the dog...
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Boat fire on Potomac Reveals More
Rescue Snafus
See Story
photos for ST. MARY'S TODAY by Gary Lewis
Coast Guard Assists Girl Injured
by Dumb Boater
Two escape boat explosion on the
Bay during 4th of July flare-up
Killer in Newburg Elks Lodge
Murder Sought By Cops
Keeping Cocaine in the Family
Report from weekend of the
cesspool known as Baltimore City: 2 dead when idiots aim
at cops
Cops nab man who robbed elderly
man causing him to kick the bucket; arrest Burch who
allegedly robbed two stores in Charlotte Hall
Steven J. Brown-Santos, 20. Police say he is the
robber who's victim died of fright. Right, Charles D.
Burch, 37, from Mechanicsville.
Merit pay for teachers and
principals who produce good marks
Don't get injured in a wreck in the Mechanicsville
area and expect trained EMS providers, says EMS provider
Reader Feedback
TWO ARRESTED IN HERMANVILLE FIRE
Heathens Stole Federal Lawman's
Stuff
There is less happening in Vegas
these days
37 hurt in fireworks misfire in
Iowa; others suffered injuries dealing with illegal
fireworks
hecklers interrupted President's
4th of July speech at Thomas Jefferson's home
Two supervisors at meat plant
arrested after sweep of illegal workers
China to shut factories to clear
the air for Olympics
Chrysler closes minivan plant,
more cuts expected as sales plummet
Former St. Mary's Commissioner
John Lancaster dies after short illness
Madeline Moon Kreitzer dead at 88
Kathy McFadden dead at 66
Thomas Mitchell Dillow, Sr., dead
at 81
Mary Jeanette Abell-Riffe dead at
49
Ruth Annie “Momma Guy”
dead at 94
James McGuire “Jim” Beaver Jr. dead at 34
Michael Victor Lucien,
dead at one day
Potomac River Association leader
Erik Jannson dead
One more leader of the PRA kicks the
bucket as the old goats take a perfectly good
organization with them to the grave instead of passing
St. Mary's County's only long-term civic association on
to the next generation....the developers will rejoice at
this latest passing. Jannson and others took St.
Mary's County to court to force the county to abide by
the county's own zoning ordinance as most every member
of the local bar association broke the law and illegally
subdivided land. The court ruled that nearly 5,000
lots were illegally subdivided...even Judges Raley and
Slade illegally subdivided lots by deed...only Senator
Roy Dyson stood up to the local lawyers and
commissioners in 1998 and nixed an effort to make the
crooked land deals legal....but with the PRA members
buying the farm in a steady trickle of old age ailments
it won't be long before there is no one to reign in the
greedy developers who would pave over their own
grandmothers for a fast buck. Good Bye PRA, it won't be
long before the last one is pushing up daisies.
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