Although numbers can be a difficult read for many, Ocean City property owners would be well suited to read the Town of Ocean City’s Report to Citizens that arrived in mailboxes this week. It contains a tremendous amount of worthwhile information. Here’s some highlights in my opinion:After experiencing significant declines in recent years, the volume… Read more »

The petition effort, if you can actually call it that, to stop the performing arts center’s bond was abandoned this week. In a letter, petition organizer Tony Christ said the petition process was “discontinued” because the city is withholding information from the public about the impact the performing arts center will have on future bookings… Read more »

It appears concerns over Common Core-associated curriculum changes in public schools across Maryland have led some parents to pull their kids out of local public schools and enroll them in private institutions. Through some basic research, I have been able to learn that over the last month about 15 public school students in Worcester and… Read more »

It’s been a pet peeve of mine for years to see police officers talking on their cell phones in uniform in their vehicles. I see it just about every day and I find it aggravating. It’s just wrong to be sitting at a stop light next to a cop, watching him talk on his Blackberry… Read more »

The current petition effort to defund the performing arts center’s current financing structure, which comes at little to no fiduciary risk at all, continues to be a major talking point in Ocean City. No matter how you feel about the size of the facility or its ability to land top drawing acts, the fact is… Read more »

Former Ocean City Councilman Vince Gisriel said yesterday he does not plan on being involved in the ground effort to secure signatures to place funding the performing arts building before voters. The petition effort is being led by Ocean City Taxpayers For Social Justice spokesman Tony Christ. “I am still not a part of that… Read more »

It’s been a while since the Ramadans have been in the news, but this week some new major news broke. Basel and Samir Ramadan, along with a dozen or so cohorts, were arrested earlier this year for their leading roles in a vast cigarette smuggling operation involving millions of dollars of untaxed smokes. While that… Read more »

Ocean City Councilman Brent Ashley was forceful this week in his questioning of City Manager David Recor over a perceived blunder at the hands of city staff. At issue is whether the city erred when it let a deadline pass involving the town’s advertising agency contract. It was reported that the city had to decide… Read more »

It was refreshing to see some frank talk about this summer season. The general summation is it was one unique summer with some businesses reporting it was a record breaker and others referring to it as forgettable. That dichotomy was addressed several times during this week’s EDC meeting by panelists representing the private sector as… Read more »

Although expected for some time, big state political news was made this week when Attorney General Doug Gansler officially announced his bid to be the next governor. He will square off in next June’s primary against Democratic Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown to see who represents the state’s dominant party in November 2014. That will be… Read more »