Some thoughts on the recent events surrounding the current city manager search process in Ocean City:A Situation Consistent With The Times It’s a dysfunctional mess.That’s the best, and probably least articulate, way to describe what the city manager process morphed into over the last couple weeks in Ocean City.So much has happened over the last… Read more »
The Ocean City Mayor and Council may have been on break this week, but that did not stop the dramatic undercurrents at City Hall.Although anything could change between now and next week’s meeting, the council majority seems intent on voting on a new city manager next week.The big question is whether the requisite background checks… Read more »
State Comptroller Peter Franchot continued his unofficial bid for governor during a few stops on the lower shore yesterday, including an announcement of his desire for a new state policy forbidding school systems in Maryland from ringing their first bells until after Labor Day weekend. He plans to introduce this initiative in the form of… Read more »
The prospects of a special legislative session in Annapolis should scare all Marylanders because recent history indicates these short gatherings almost always result in government raising taxes or fees or finding other creative ways to reach further into our pockets.This will almost surely be the end result whenever legislators head back to Annapolis to do… Read more »
The water in the proverbial fishbowl that is elected office got a little hot this week in Ocean City, as the shenanigans at City Hall continued.The silliness began on April 1 when Councilman Joe Hall ignited another firestorm of controversy via Facebook. He sent a private message through the social network to the Citizens For… Read more »
Offer alcohol and they will come is a philosophy that seems to be working for Berlin special events, but how much is too much seems to be the question that continues to give the Mayor and Council some reason for pause.The latest example came this week when The Globe proprietor Jennifer Dawicki approached the council… Read more »
If he is following the ongoing situation here in Ocean City, a guy named Joe Lathrop is most likely continuing to shake his head in bewilderment.President and founder of OCG, an independent consultant hired last year to study Ocean City’s tourism structure and make recommendations to improve it, Lathrop found in his research that resort… Read more »
With just a few weeks remaining in this year’s General Assembly session, governments continue to wearily keep an eye on goings on in Annapolis.One bill grabbing the attention of Worcester County lawmakers is House Bill 366, which has the potential to take away Worcester’s right to opt out of residential sprinkler systems in new homes,… Read more »
Democratic State Sen. Jim Mathias hit the nail on the head this week when he said same sex marriage is “a very generational issue”. The gay marriage bill was just last week signed into law by Gov. Martin O’Malley and is indeed a polarizing matter for a number of reasons.On the surface, this bill appears… Read more »
The great storm of 1962 will be remembered in tremendous detail next Wednesday at a dinner at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center. I am looking forward to attending the event and watching the 40-minute video that will feature storm footage as well as personal accounts and reflections from local residents.Many lives were affected by… Read more »