Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan put his two cents in on the future of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge this week, opining additional spans elsewhere in Maryland are out of his consideration. Hogan made it clear he would only support adding another span to the existing bridge.“There is only one option I will ever accept: adding a… Read more »
In a veiled threat to not vote for a proposed room tax increase this spring, Worcester County Commissioner Josh Nordstrom was playing politics. It was obvious and he’s fine with everyone knowing it.Nordstrom was most likely never going to vote against raising the room tax from 4.5% to 5% — an 11% percent increase –… Read more »
For about 20 minutes on Wednesday, a traffic nightmare appeared imminent in and around Ocean City. The State Highway Administration had announced an intention to close the Route 50 Bridge beginning at 1:30 p.m. with no plans to reopen until later in the night. That announcement came after the drawbridge malfunctioned early that morning.Evidently, in… Read more »
It could have been so much worse. That was my reaction after watching a video of the motorcyclist’s fatal, high-speed collision with a vehicle making a U-turn on Coastal Highway at 59th Street. This video was taken from OceanCityLive.com’s camera atop a hotel. I decided after watching it not to post the video to our… Read more »
On our website, from Tuesday-Thursday, the most popular story was, “Jordan, Catch 23 Boat Booked For White Marlin Open.” More than 50,000 people viewed the article. It says a lot about the quiet nature of this news week actually, but the potential for NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan to be a participant in this… Read more »
The petition to referendum process is a valuable way to hold government accountable to the will of the people. In the case of the challenge in Berlin, the most recent petition effort seemed to be more about the general state of discord among town citizens than the specific annexation in question.While the energy behind the… Read more »
The surprising aspect about the median fence being seriously damaged in an accident is it took more than a year.In the wee hours of the morning last Sunday, a suspected intoxicated man crashed his vehicle into the median fence near 40th Street, resulting in about a 40-foot section of the median fence needing to be… Read more »
The expansion of steel was never something I gave a lot of thought to until a trip to Denmark in the summer of 2006. Similar to the type of summer Europe is experiencing this year, there was a major heat wave underway while we were there.As a result, we were informed when we were taking… Read more »
It was a crazy scene over Ocean City Wednesday afternoon. While it’s not the first time it’s happened, it was still a sight to behold for many as two helicopters on different ends of town responded to incidents needing air transport requests almost simultaneously.Although most details were not known yesterday, two traumatic injury incidents occurred… Read more »
The laws of supply and demand were on full display during last weekend’s OC Air Show. Though difficult to prove historically, I would argue last Saturday featured some of the biggest crowds I have ever seen in Ocean City. The beach was packed from the ocean to the seawall along the Boardwalk as far as… Read more »
