OCEAN CITY, MD - A discussion over how to thank visitors for coming to Ocean City became a thankless business at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, as members mixed it up in a dispute over marketing.
Councilmen Brent Ashley and Joe Hall have pushed for the city to create and distribute silicone wristbands with the city’s Web site printed inside. They suggested that local businesses buy the wristbands at cost and give them to patrons and the special Web site will take visitors to a survey where they have a chance to win an Ocean City trip.
Some other council members have said that is not the best way to say thank you, because people might throw away the wristbands or not visit the Web site. Having businesses offer top-notch customer service is the best way to make visitors happy and wanting to return, they said.
It is true, so true, as Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, argues in the Washington Post, that the doyens of liberal media have been attempting to paint tea party members as the villains of the debt-ceiling confrontation. But this shouldn't surprise. From the inception of the movement, liberals and Democrats have purported to see dark and dangerous trends afoot. The movement has been insulted as stupid and radical, and slandered as racist and nativist. 
Moody's Investor Services is threatening to downgrade the credit ratings for dozens of local governments in Maryland, Virginia and 29 other states, based on how the federal government's negotiations concerning the U.S. debt ceiling affects financial markets. 
They say the movie theaters make more 
Auditors found that Morgan State University has a litany of problems with controlling spending on scholarships, research and development grants, and granting access to its computer systems – but on the whole, the university is doing much better. 
MILTON, DE — With very few revenue streams, Milton is expected to enter the fiscal year 2012 budget year with a deficit of $348,000.
Wicomico public schools Superintendent John Fredericksen doesn’t like certain members of the Wicomico County Council. That’s fine. I have a sneaking suspicion that some of them feel the same way about Fredericksen as I do – that he’s an arrogant spendthrift who believes that the taxpayers exist solely to fund his bureaucracy and his pet projects.
Earlier this week a forum hosted at Salisbury University was to 
While waiting for the debt limit vote … 
Facebook has become an effective crime-fighting tool for law enforcement officers, not only allowing cops to profile suspects but providing convenient ways for victims to report crimes.
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Iranian lawmakers will decide next week whether a senior figure in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a target of U.S., European Union and U.N. sanctions, will become the country’s oil minister – a position that would elevate him to the presidency of the OPEC oil cartel at a time of global economic uncertainty. 
WASHINGTON - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, accused House Speaker John Boehner of “partisan politicking,” and she said if he doesn’t "compromise" with Democrats on a debt-ceiling deal, Republicans will “have no one to blame but themselves for the fallout.”
Circuit Court Judge William C. Mulford II ordered the Maryland Department of Agriculture to redact any information identifying individual farmers from documents it is releasing concerning “nutrient management plans,” which spell out how much animal manure or chemical fertilizer is being spread on fields to grow crops.
SMYRNA, DE — Delaware carried out its first execution since 2005 early Friday, putting to death a man who was convicted of killing a woman with an ax during a burglary nearly two decades ago.
The 2011 Somerset County Fair begins today at 8AM.