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  • Villanova Friday Night

    Hedgehog Report

    For a Friday Night post, there is no better way to head into the weekend than to celebrate the latest cover of Sports Illustrated that just hit my mailbox.Off to see The Blindside about Ravens' star Michael Oher. Enjoy your Friday night....' [...]
    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 7:35pm EST
  • Cell phone scammers seek bank information

    Delusional Duck

    Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has warned Maryland residents to be on the lookout for new scams that are using cell phones to obtain sensitive personal bank information. There have there been many reports of scammers calling cell phones, according to the attorney general’s office, and culprits also have started [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:55pm EST
  • Can oysters save the bay?

    Delusional Duck

    Politicians, advocates and watermen wrangle over best way to preserve industry and environmentThe Maryland Department of Natural Resources estimates the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population now is about 1 percent of its original size. Oysters filter excess nutrients and pollutants out of bay waters. Without that cleansing action, harmful algae blooms grow, [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:52pm EST
  • New census center will begin hiring

    Delusional Duck

    Southern Marylanders seeking work can look to hundreds of federal jobs coming to La Plata — temporarily. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday officially opened a local census office on the third floor of the Baldus Centre at 101 E. Charles St. The installation will require 600 to 700 workers, most [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:51pm EST
  • U.S. Fears Iraq Development Projects May Go to Waste

    Delusional Duck

    In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools and bridges. But there are growing concerns among American officials that Iraq [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:37pm EST
  • Drug resistant H1N1 found in U.S. and U.K.

    Delusional Duck

    Epidemic experts say they are investigating the apparent spread of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu virus among four patients at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and five in a hospital in Wales. These clusters appear to be the first in which a virus resistant to the antiviral Tamiflu, a mainstay of [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:29pm EST
  • MDGOP: Call to Action

    Carroll Standard

    Audrey Scott, the new Chairman of the MDGOP, is in the saddle and wasting no time in making her first "call to action" for all conservatives and free thinking liberals to call, fax, and e-mail legislators to vote against Harry Reid's dishonest attempt to force a vote on a motion [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:14pm EST
  • Commissioners divvy up committees

    Delusional Duck

    The Charles County commissioners announced their new committee assignments Nov. 7. Charles County commissioners’ President F. Wayne Cooper (D) will serve on the Charles County Scholarship Fund, the Lower Potomac River Tributary Team, Civista Board of Trustees, Maryland Association of Counties Legislative Committee and MACo’s Past President Recognition Subcommittee. Cooper will [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:38pm EST
  • First Congressional District Voters Want Change

    Salisbury News

    Number of comments: 17
    First Congressional District Voters Want Change

    The Tarrance Group polled likely voters this week in the First
    Congressional District of Maryland for the Andy Harris for Congress
    campaign. The results show that 52% of the likely voters would vote
    for Andy Harris, 39% for the incumbent Congressman, Frank Kratovil.[...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:15pm EST
    by Ghanima
  • 2012: Republicans Creep Closer to Obama

    Hedgehog Report

    New numbers from Public Policy Polling for the 2012 Presidential race show Republicans creeping closer to Barack Obama in national head-to-head match ups.PRESIDENT - NATIONAL (PPP)Barack Obama (D-inc) 46% Ron Paul (R) 38% Barack Obama (D-inc) 49% Mike Huckabee (R) 44% Barack Obama (D-inc) 51% Sarah Palin (R) 43%Barack Obama (D-inc) 48% Mitt Romney (R) 43% Barack [...]
    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  • AZ: Hayworth Within 2% Of McCain

    Hedgehog Report

    New numbers from Scott Rasmussen for the state of California has Barbara Boxer stuck at 46%, but still with a double-digit lead over the top two Republicans.US SENATE - CALIFORNIA (Rasmussen) Barbara Boxer (D-inc) 46% Carly Fiorina (R) 37% Barbara Boxer (D-inc) 46% Chuck Devore (R) 36%I continue my plea to California Republicans, please [...]
    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  • Vote Healthcare NO!

    What A Smell?

    Number of comments: 0
    It looks like goofy Harry Reid is planning a vote in the Senate tomorrow for or against, the zillion page, health care bill. It is up to us to raise hell and get this knocked out. Most people don't realize the liberties and freedoms that will quickly disappear, should this' [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:54am EST
    by Uncle Paul
  • Someone save this for 2013…

    monoblogue

    If there was ever a good blackmail picture for Salisbury Mayor Jim Ireton, holding a stuffed reindeer and coming out of Santa’s Workshop may take the prize. To wit:

    Now, mind you, I don’t have any problem with the concept of “Third Friday”, which is why I posted the video now as [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:36am EST
    by Michael
  • MD: Hogan Comes To Howard County

    Hedgehog Report

    Sorry I did not get to anything last night, but I was attending another packed house at the Howard County Republican Club listening to the man who may be the next Governor of Maryland (should Bob Ehrlich decide not to run), Larry Hogan.If you are local to the area and [...]
    Fetched: November 20, 2009, 10:33am EST
  • From the Duck Hotline

    Delusional Duck

    There’s an article in today’s Indy (link when available) regarding proposed salary increases for the board of commissioners.  The commissioners will submit legislation to increase their salaries – Cooper’s from $58,000 to $90,000! Among the committee which determined the proposed salary increases:  Leon Gough – Sam’s key campaign committee member and [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:58am EST
  • From the Duck Hotline

    Delusional Duck

    There’s an article in today’s Indy regarding proposed salary increases for the board of commissioners.  The commissioners will submit legislation to increase their salaries – Cooper’s from $58,000 to $90,000! Among the committee which determined the proposed salary increases:  Leon Gough – Sam’s key campaign committee member and side-kick helping his [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:58am EST
  • First Click -- Maryland

    Maryland Moment

    Your daily download of Maryland's top political news and analysis Friday, Nov. 20, 2009: O'Malley to tout new jobs in port deal Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) this morning is expected to announce the award of a long-term partnership with Ports America to operate an expanded, state-owned Seagirt Marine Terminal in [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:12am EST
  • BID NO. 10-03 - Painting Contractor

    Delusional Duck

    The County Commissioners of Charles County are hereby requesting sealed bids from qualified painting contractors to provide interior and exterior painting services on an as needed basis for Charles County Department of Public Facilities. To receive consideration respondent’s principle place of business shall be within a 30 mile radius of [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:40am EST
  • U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record High

    Delusional Duck

    The economy and the stock market may be recovering from their swoon, but more homeowners than ever are having trouble making their monthly mortgage payments, according to figures released Thursday. Nearly one in 10 homeowners with mortgages was at least one payment behind in the third quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:31am EST
  • Health care’s ‘public option’ would cover little of population

    Delusional Duck

    A proposed government-run health insurance program, among the most divisive issues in the health care debate, would cover less than 1.5% of the population, new estimates show. The latest version of the “public option,” included in the 10-year, $848 billion health care bill headed toward an initial Senate vote Saturday, [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:28am EST
  • Housing bust halts growing suburbs

    Delusional Duck

    The recession and housing collapse have halted four decades of double-digit growth for nearly half of the nation’s biggest rapidly expanding suburbs. Twenty-four of the 53 cities of 100,000 or more that grew by at least 10% every decade since 1970 lost population in the last two years. [...] Bedroom communities now must [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:24am EST
  • Workers’ hair tests nail 10 times more drug users

    Delusional Duck

    Newer workplace drug tests using hair samples reveal 10 times as many job applicants and employees taking cocaine and methamphetamine than had been found in urine tests. Quest Diagnostics on Friday will release hair data for the first time that show that in the first half of 2009 cocaine was found [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:17am EST
  • Errors crop up in recovery data

    Delusional Duck

    The federal Web site set up to provide the public with detailed information on how U.S. stimulus funds are being spent showed millions of dollars distributed to congressional districts that don’t exist. For Maryland, the data showed $28.6 million in 20 contracts in districts the state doesn’t have, up to the [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:04am EST
  • Cuts hit mental health, higher education

    Delusional Duck

    Craig Winslow says he is unable to imagine the situation some parents of students at the John R. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Rockville now face. On Wednesday, the state Board of Public Works cut 24 beds and 21 positions at the state-run center for children with emotional [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:02am EST
  • Early exposure to language critical later

    The Sun: InsideEd

    Silence is apparently not a good thing when it comes to babies.

     

    Children between the ages of 2 months and 6 months who have a lot of exposure to language are more likely to have advanced language skills later in life, according to research being released this weekend. The research suggests that parents should [...]

    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:00am EST
  • Rabindranath Tagore

    Kevin Dayhoff

    Rabindranath Tagore

    You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. -- Artist, poet, novelist, musician, and playwright, Rabindranath Tagore, May 7, 1861 –August 7, 1941

    In the top photo: Rabindranath Tagore – I do not know the artist-photgrapher' [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:29am EST

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