A little bit of everything
“You see, I’m a registered Democrat. I live in Howard County, but I think I want to vote for Kittleman, the Republican candidate running for County Executive.”
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This isn’t about who’s going to win. Mr. Moore is going to win. He’s the Democrat candidate running in a state where his party outnumbers the opposition by two to one. He’s intelligent, well-spoken and naturally charismatic. For most of us, it’s an easy call. Not even our current, Republican Governor is willing to endorse his own party’s candidate.
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What I found was a remarkable 25,187 contributions received in less than 16 months between May 6, 2021, and August 23, 2022. Keep in mind that there were fewer contributors than the number of contributions because many people made more than one contribution.
Lots of out-of-state money. Of the total contributions, only 53% of dollars contributed came from Maryland – only 50% of contributions of $1000 or more. Contributors who don’t live here generally don’t care as much about Maryland as residents do – and yet current election law allows them to determine, to a great extent, who we elect to the office of Governor.
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We need our own arsenal of nuclear weapons, more scary than anyone else’s, because “no one wins a nuclear war” and “mutually assured destruction” was the only deterrent to their use.
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My argument was that inflation in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a composite of what’s happening in various inter-related, but still very different markets for products and services in various locales around the country.
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Covid-19 was the original excuse, but not anymore. The pandemic that is still lingering may have left us with no choice, but then people got used to the many other advantages of working at home. The result is transformational and is, if the trend continues, threatening to re-weave the fabric of our economy.
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The nickname, “Charm City,” isn’t exactly how Baltimore is viewed by many across our nation. That’s too bad. While the title of this piece may be slightly over-stated, the fact is that Baltimore makes the top 5 in every list of the nation’s most dangerous cities, depending upon which definition of violent crime the authors may have used.
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If only I was BB King. Unfortunately, while I could probably come up with a really cool name for my guitar, if I had one, I couldn’t play it. Or sing. …Now you know why I write for a living.
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Without even a hint of hyperbole, we are – every mother’s son and daughter of us – in the midst
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Yes, we’ve all noticed. There’s a disturbance in The Force. Some call it “The Great Resignation,” but it’s much more complicated than that. The output of our economy is down and yet unemployment is less than 4% which is effectively “full employment” given that there are always people out of work for benign reasons.
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