Category: Letter To The Editor

The Dispatch welcomes any and all letters from our readers. All letters are encouraged typed, but not required, and we reserve the right to edit each letter for clarity, accuracy and brevity. Letters should include writer’s name, address and day and evening telephone numbers. If we are unable to reach the writer, we will have to withhold the letter. Due to space restraints, letters under 500 words in length will be given top priority.

Letters can be mailed to: The Dispatch, P.O. Box 467, Berlin, Md. 21811, e-mailed to [email protected] or faxed to 410-641-0966.

Authorities Do Their Job

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Editor:Generally, I do not take time to respond to other letters posted in your paper but the comments in this letter, “Laws Need Enforcing,” just begged for a response.First, as to the statement “please start enforcing the laws and ordinances”, I’m not sure if the writer has ever been out on the streets of Ocean… Read more »

Addressing Boomer’s Rant

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Editor:I understand that letters to the editor are not required to check facts or even adhere to basic standards of accuracy.Nevertheless, the letter from Dennis Evans published in the May 13 Dispatch (“A Baby Boomer’s Concerns”) probably set a number of records for exaggerations, falsehoods, and incoherent rants.It would take a very lengthy response to set… Read more »

Not Passing Sense Test

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Editor:Change is inevitable but when change does not register on the “common sense” barometer I have to ask what are the OC Mayor and Council thinking? Two years ago in July, local newspapers reported the safety concerns the Mayor and Council, Police Dept., Police Commission and citizens had about Scoop Coupes being rented and operating on… Read more »

Legislature Hurting All Of Us

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Editor:       In just a few short years, current Annapolis politicians have given us a sales tax increase, a personal income tax hike, predatory gambling and now a 3% tax increase in the alcohol tax. To add insult, they are not even using this projected new income to balance the state budget, reduce state debt, or… Read more »

Open Space Funding Struggle Unnecessary

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Editor:Among many budgetary struggles in Maryland’s General Assembly this year was whether our representatives would fully fund Program Open Space, or if dollars from the dedicated Real Estate Transfer Tax would end up in the general fund. Despite a difficult struggle, lawmakers opted to fund much of the dedicated land conservation programs, while shelving other… Read more »

Say No To Operation

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Editor:My wife and I own a condo in Heron Harbor. It is on a canal. We have boat slips along this narrow canal. During the summer months, it can get quite busy with boating traffic heading out to the bay.I received a letter yesterday from the Town of Ocean City informing me about a request from… Read more »

Wind Energy Bill Short On Details

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Editor:The Administration’s wind generation legislation, the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act, is a case study in the doctrine of government economic planning. Eager to appear on the leading edge of developing alternative energy, the measure was crafted with no regard to the American economic system of free markets. It is not only the philosophical argument… Read more »