Digital UpgradesKey To CommunityEditor:Worcester County Public Schools will always be the heart and future of our community. Through a strong commitment from our Worcester County Commissioners, dedicated leadership from our Board of Education, and the support of families and local businesses, we have all reaped the benefits of providing a Blue Ribbon education as we… Read more »
Category: Opinions
Voices From The Readers
Petition Nearing GoalEditor:First, I would like to say what a thrill it has been for me, a 65-year-old, to meet you citizens as I went door to door over the last four months getting signatures to lower taxes. Since I started the Tax Petition, I have knocked on over 2,500 doors, shaken hands and looked… Read more »
No Longer Time To Celebrate For Maryland’s GOP
On the national, regional and local front, Tuesday’s election was all about the Republican Party, which swept nearly all races of significances on many levels and particularly on the hyper-local front on the shore.For only the second time in the last few decades, Maryland will have a Republican governor in Larry Hogan, who did what… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
Some reflections on this week’s election:• I don’t like to use the term upset when it comes to election races because the fact is you never truly know the will of the general public until it’s expressed through the voting process. However, prior to elections, it’s natural through educated research and experience to handicap certain… Read more »
Voices From The Readers
‘Deep Decline’ QuestionedEditor:Thank you to all of the candidates who have chosen to run for City Council in Ocean City including both incumbent members as well as some new personalities that much of the community has recently come to know.Most recently I appreciated last week’s publication of your paper where an expanded question/answer session was published for… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
Finally, the General Election is almost here. As is usually the case, there have been lots of political machinations over the last week or so and here are a couple that I reflected on this week.•The Citizens For Ocean City group has only been around three years but there’s no question it has become an… Read more »
General Election Endorsements
OverviewThe following is a look at our endorsements for a number of local contested elections. These endorsements are intended to give readers a glimpse into why we have decided to support certain candidates. We take this obligation of offering our suggestions seriously at this newspaper, and it’s important to point out these are endorsements based… Read more »
Whenever You Do It, Please Choose To Vote
Early voting started yesterday in jurisdictions across the state and will run through Thursday, Oct. 30, from 10 a.m.-8 p.m.In Wicomico County, the polling site is the Civic Center and in Worcester it’s at the Gull Creek Retirement Community in Berlin. It’s our hope the recent trends with early voting – those that confirm it’s… Read more »
Voices From The Readers
Publication ThreatenedEditor:As a candidate for the Ocean City Council who was disqualified at last Thursday’s kankaroo court hearing before the City Council, I wish to get the facts straight for the record.In this morning’s The Dispatch, you reported Ufholz “never properly established his residency” and “immediately following the hearing, it was discovered that Ufholz claimed… Read more »
Thoughts From The Publisher’s Desk
A strange election season in Ocean City got weirder yesterday when Ocean City Council candidate Nancy Bolt decided to withdraw from next month’s election. This is a significant move and will unquestionably have a major impact on this election.An already diminutive field has now been shrunk to just seven candidates, meaning a majority of the… Read more »