Cecil County Council: Shoutouts, Callouts, and Other Drama on Lawsuits,...
When someone offers a ‘shout-out,’ in the current slang parlance, it is usually a good-natured verbal hello to a friend, while a ‘call-out’ is a throw-down-the-gauntlet challenge. But those...
View ArticleCecil County Exec Offers Limits on Power to Remove Appointees; Ethics Panel...
Cecil County Executive Tari Moore has drafted proposals to restrict her own power, granted by the county Charter, to remove appointees to county boards and commissions, according to proposals discussed...
View ArticleBaltimore Port Hosts PR Tour to Press Cecil County for Renewed Dumping in...
BALTIMORE—The Maryland Port Administration pulled out the big cranes, the big cargo ships, a modest motorboat for a putt-putt water tour and a great big goose-egg zero on a chart Tuesday to try to...
View ArticleSupreme Court Same-Sex Fed Marriage Rights Ruling has Little Impact on Cecil...
A landmark Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday, finding that same-sex legally married couples must have equal rights to benefits under federal law, is expected to have little impact on Cecil County...
View ArticleEvelyn Potter, Cecil County Elections Director, Retires; A Beacon of...
An Appreciation In the tumultuous and often nasty world of recent Cecil County politics, there has always been one shining light, a beacon of fairness, impartiality and calm in the eye of the local...
View ArticleCecil County Council Talks Trash, and Not Just Garbage
Trash-talking is often par for the course in some of the rhetoric employed by at least one member of the Cecil County Council during the panel’s meetings, and Tuesday’s worksession was no exception....
View ArticleCecil County Council Discusses Gunfire Limits, After Child’s Death from Stray...
Cecil County Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1) on Tuesday proposed a draft bill to limit discharge of firearms in close proximity to homes as a way to prevent tragic but unintended consequences of shooting...
View ArticleCecil County Exec Names 30-member Panel to Draft County ‘Strategic Plan’
Cecil County Executive Tari Moore has appointed a 30-member task force to draft a long-range “strategic plan” to guide the county’s future, a requirement established by the county’s new Charter form of...
View ArticleLocal Biz ‘Preference’ Backed by Cecil County Councilor Hodge, as State...
Cecil County Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) has long been dismayed that county-financed construction projects often use non-local subcontractors and services—from port-a-potties to cement—rather...
View ArticleCecil County Exec Gives $400K in Casino ‘Impact’ Grants to Local Fire,...
Cecil County Executive Tari Moore has awarded nearly $400,000 in grants, derived from a local “impact” share of county revenues obtained from the Hollywood casino in Perryville, to a wide array of fire...
View Article“MAD Mike” Dawson Files for State Senate; Perpetual Candidate Seeks new...
ANALYSIS When one-term Perryville town commissioner Michael A. Dawson declared a few months ago that he would not seek re-election to the post he had only won by one vote, town officials and many...
View ArticleCecil County Councilor Diana Broomell Says She Plans to Run for Re-election...
Cecil County Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4), often a lightening rod for controversy both on the old county Commissioners board and the new County Council, told Cecil Times that she plans to run for...
View ArticleCecil County Drug Crisis: ‘Culture’ of Abuse Pervades County; Poverty, Lack...
A Cecil Times Special Report Cecil County’s widespread drug abuse problems– linked to crime, child abuse, suicide and joblessness—will need a broad-based solution to address a culture of drug abuse...
View ArticleCecil County Council: Sewer Solstice, Deja vu Do-overs; DPW Chief, Broomell...
Elsewhere it might be close to the summer solstice, but in Elkton, it was the Cecil County Council’s sewer solstice– as members danced around the fiscal and political bonfires of boosting sewer fees to...
View ArticleCecil County Cuts Deal to Buy Basell Site for Tech School, but at $4million...
Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, a long-debated and much needed expansion of vocational/technical education in Cecil County has been resurrected with a proposed deal, announced Friday by the...
View ArticleEJ Pipkin to Resign Senate Seat; Smigiel, Sossi to Contend for Appointment to...
State Sen. E.J. Pipkin of Elkton announced Monday he will resign his 36th District Senate seat, representing Cecil County and three other counties on the Upper Shore, to seek a new career in sports...
View ArticleCandidates Vie for Pipkin’s Vacated State Senate Seat; Queen Anne’s County...
The iron grip held on the four-county 36th legislative district by former state Sen. E.J. Pipkin ( R) for over a decade has crumbled in the past week since he announced his resignation and departure...
View ArticleBULLETIN: Audrey Scott, ex- State GOP Chair, Wins Key Support in Race to fill...
Audrey Scott, the former Maryland Republican Party chairwoman, has won key support from two counties’ GOP party committees in her quest to fill the state Senate seat vacated recently by E.J. Pipkin in...
View ArticleUpper Shore Senate Seat Selection Process Presses On; Smigiel Allies Blast Scott
The process to fill the state Senate seat vacated recently by E.J. Pipkin has turned into an increasingly bitter brawl, with pressure on local Republican Central Committees in the four-county District...
View ArticleCampaign 2014: Wayne Norman Files in Redrawn Dist. 35 Senate; Reilly,...
The 2014 campaign for state legislative seats in western Cecil County will bring new names and faces in re-drawn Senate and House of Delegates districts, and two new Republican contenders declared...
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