Overcrowding Report

October 2, 2008

MEMO To: Mayor and Board of Aldermen From: Paul Smith Date: October 2, 2008 Re: Overcrowding Following my review of the Overcrowding Report and after the Workshop yesterday, I have some suggestions and comments that I believe will be helpful. 1. We need to understand the exact nature and magnitude of the overcrowding problems that [...]

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Employee Buy-Out

August 7, 2008

There has been considerable discussion of the City’s Employee Buy-Out plan that was passed by the Board of Alderman on April 17, 2008. The discussion that has ensued for almost four months since has included considerable criticism, and in part because of Budget Director Jon Angel’s sudden departure, the City has not been able to [...]

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City’s buyout is good for taxpayers

June 16, 2008

In his June 15th column, Bill Brosius wrote that he was “trying to figure a logical rationale” for the employment buyout offer. He concluded that it was a “misuse of taxpayer money.” He is wrong. Mr. Brosius failed to consider the substantial savings that would be generated by the reduced salaries that the City would [...]

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Opposition to Workforce Housing Proposal

April 2, 2008

The workforce housing proposal that was presented to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the April 2nd Workshop consisted of two new incentives to encourage certain people to purchase homes within Frederick city limits. The principal components, as explained at the workshop are: (1) A $20,000 interest-free loan that would be repaid to the [...]

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Re-defining Family—a way to destroy it

March 21, 2008

Those who seek to broaden the definition of “marriage” and “family” in order to secure for same-sex couples all the benefits that states confer on couples in a traditional marriages (between a man and a woman) are pursuing a course which will undermine marriage and which is geared to bring increased hardships and difficulties to [...]

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Mitt Romney for President

January 25, 2008

Mitt Romney is the best candidate for President of the United States. As I write this1, Mitt Romney just won the Nevada caucuses in a landslide, taking 51% of the Republican votes. Ron Paul was a distant second with 14%. All the other Republican candidates were in the single digits. Also, today, McCain won the [...]

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Roger Brooke Taney Bust

November 12, 2007

MEMO To: Mayor W. J. Holtzinger From: C. Paul Smith Date: 12 November 2007 Re: Roger Brooke Taney Bust ________________________________________________________________________ I agree that would be a good idea to add an additional plaque or marker on or near the Taney bust in front of City Hall. But the exact form of this additional verbage will [...]

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Court Upholds Traditional Marriage

October 8, 2007

COURT OF APPEALS UPHOLDS STATUTE LIMITING MARRIAGE TO OPPOSITE-SEX COUPLES On September 18, 2007, the Maryland Court of Appeals issued the long-awaited ruling in the case of Conaway v. Deane (September Term, 2006, Case No. 44), upholding the constitutionality of the Maryland law that “[o]nly a marriage between a man and a woman is valid [...]

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Traditional Marriage is Best for Rearing Children

September 26, 2007

On September 18, 2007, the Maryland Court of Appeals issued the long-awaited ruling in the case of Conaway v. Deane, upholding the constitutionality of the Maryland law that “[o]nly a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in this State” (Family Law Article, Section 2-201). The Court of Appeals by a 4-3 vote, [...]

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Fix the I-270/US 15 Corridor

August 25, 2007

On the radio on August 25th [2007], BOCC President Jan Gardner reported that she and State Transportation Secretary John Porcari had discussed making and maintaining a state-wide list of transportation projects that need funding. The list would allow everyone to know the order in which projects would be funded and to monitor when projects would [...]

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