MATTHEW A. MACIARELLO RECOGNIZED AS 2016 OUTSTANDING PUBLIC HEALTH LEADER

(Salisbury, MD.) Mr. Matthew Maciarello was recognized as the 2016 Outstanding Public Health Leader for Wicomico County at a ceremony held April 5, 2016 at the Wicomico County Health Department. The award ceremony was held in recognition of National Public Health Week, April 4-10, 2016.

Mr. Maciarello was recognized for his efforts in leading the charge to develop services and programs that address the opiate misuse problems Wicomico County is facing. Mr. Maciarello was honored for his personal response to overdoses and his close working relationships with public agencies to decrease the number of overdoses in the community.

“The Wicomico County Health Department has been proud to work collaboratively with the Wicomico State’s Attorney’s Office. Mr. Maciarello is an example to all of us on how to care for those in need and how to work together to reverse community problems,” said Lori Brewster, Health Officer. Mr. Maciarello is to be commended for his tireless efforts to improve the health of Wicomico County residents and for his accomplishment on being recognized as Wicomico County's 2016 Outstanding Public Health Leader.

TWO SALISBURY RAMPS TO CLOSE FOR PAVING DURING DAYTIME HOURS THIS WEEK

RAMPS AT US 50 BUSINESS / US 13 BUSINESS INTERCHANGE CLOSING APRIL 6-9

WHAT: Resurfacing the following two ramps at the US 50 Business / US 13 Business interchange in downtown Salisbury: - Broad Street from US 13 Business to westbound US 50 Business - Church Street from eastbound US 50 Business at Baptist Street to US 13 Business 

WHEN: Wednesday, April 6 through Saturday, April 9. Work hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., weather permitting. To ensure the safety of motorists and workers, vehicle traffic will not be permitted on the ramps during work hours. 

WHY: This paving is necessary to restore ride quality and extend the service life of the ramp

Three Incredibly Racist Black Lives Matter Moments

During a Republican debate in November, three Black Lives Matter activists lowered a standing American flag, ferociously stomped it into the ground, and then lit it on fire. Sequentially, the anti-American degenerates then rose a a Black Liberation flag while other members of the movement raised their fists in support of the diabolical act.

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Watermen Fight Bill They Say Threatens Their Way Of Life

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — A lot of Maryland watermen were on dry land in Annapolis Tuesday, navigating the state legislature.

Alex DeMetrick reports they’re fighting a bill they say threatens their way of life.

The oyster season is over in Maryland and watermen say it was another good year—but a bill called the Sustainable Oyster Harvest Act has them worried about the years to come.

“The commercial community is concerned that this bill starts us down the road to a moratorium,” said waterman Bunky Chance.

The Department of Natural Resources surveys oyster bars and counts up the catch to gauge the bay’s oyster population. The bill calls for different measurements.

“It usurps the power of the DNR and gives it to the University of Maryland to do surveys of oyster bars and tell the watermen whether they can go to work on the oyster bars next year,” said waterman Russel Dize.

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Maryland casinos have second largest month ever with $97.8M in revenue

Maryland's gaming industry had its second biggest month ever, bringing in $97.85 million in revenue in March.

The strong showing trailed only July 2015, when the state's casinos brought in over $98.9 million in revenue, according to data released by Maryland Lottery and Gaming on Tuesday.

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SOMETHING TO KEEP YOU BUSY

Here’s an unbelievable collection of all the old time radio shows. This is a chance to go back in time, and listen to radio . Find your favorite, click on it, and listen to all the episodes.       Comedy Al Jolson Show Alan Young Show Aldrich Family Alka Seltzer Time Amos & Andy Avalon Time Baby Snooks Bergen & McCarthy Bickersons, The Bing Crosby Bob & Ray Breakfast In Hollywood Bright Star Burns & Allen Cavalcade Of America Command Performance Couple Next Door Curtain Time Danny Kaye Show Dennis Day Show Duffy's Tavern Easy Aces Father Knows Best Fibber McGee & Molly First Nighter Program Frances Langford Show Fred Allen Show Fred Waring Show Gasoline Alley GI Journal Glenn Miller Goldbergs Great Gildersleeve Guest Star Halls Of Ivy Harold Peary Harry James Show Hollywood Barn Dance It Pays to Be Ignorant Jack Benny Life Of Riley Lum And Abner Mail Call Mayor of the Town Mel Blanc Milton Berle Misadventures Of Si and Elmer My Favorite Husband My Friend Irma Our Miss Brooks Phil Harris & Alice Faye Red Skelton Story Lady, The Westerns American Trail Cisco Kid, The Fort Laramie Frontier Fighters Frontier Gentleman Frontier Town Gene Autry Gunsmoke Have Gun Will Travel Hopalong Cassidy Horizons West Lone Ranger A Lone Ranger B Roy Rogers Show, The Six Shooter Tales Of The Texas Rangers Detective Barry Craig Boston Blackie Broadway Is My Beat Casey, Crime Photographer Chase, The Crime Classics Crime Club Crime Does Not Pay Danger, Dr. Danfield Dick Tracy Dragnet Falcon, The FBI In War And Peace, The Federal Agent Frank Race Gangbusters Guilty Party I Was A Communist For The FBI Jeff Regan Let George Do It Lineup Mr. District Attorney Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Person Nero Wolfe Night Beat Pat Novak Philip Marlowe Saint, The Secrets Of Scotland Yard Sherlock Holmes This Is Your F.B.I Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Mystery Adventures By Morse Arch Obler's Plays Beyond Midnight Black Museum Cloak and Dagger Clock, The Creaking Door Dangerous Assignment Dark Fantasy Dark Venture Darkness David Harding Counter Spy Diary of Fate Dimension X Escape Five Minute Mysteries Frankenstein Ghost Corps Green Valley Line Hall Of Fantasy Haunting Hour, The Hermits Cave I Love A Mystery Incredible, But True Inner Sanctum, The Lights Out Macabre Man Called X, The Molle Mystery Theater Mysterious Traveler Mystery In The Air Quiet Please Sealed Book Shadow, The Strange Dr. Weird Suspense Weird Circle Whistler, The Witch's Tale X Minus One Drama Academy Award Theater Adventure Theater Adventures By Morse Air Adventures Of Jimmy Allen Archie Andrews Audio History Avenger Avengers Big John & Sparky Big Town Bill Sterns Sports Reel Birdseye Open House Blackstone, The Magic Detective Blue Beetle Box 13 British Shows 1 British Shows 2 Campbell Playhouse Captain Midnight Chandu The Magician Chesterfield Chicago Theater Of  Cinnamon Bear Columbia Workshop Commercials Corsican Brothers Damon Runyon Theater Dangerously Yours Family Theater Fifth Horseman Fighting AAF Fire Fighters Flash Gordon Ford Show Ford Theater Frank Merriwell Future Tense Goon Show, The Grand Hotel Grand Marquee Hallmark Playhouse Heartbeat Theater Hollywood Star Playhouse Hop Harrigan Horizons West Humphrey Bogart I Love Adventure Information Please Jungle Jim Lets Pretend Little Orphan Annie Lux Radio Theater 465 Magic Island Matinee Theater Mercury Summer Theater Mercury Theater Michael Shayne Miscellaneous Music Moon Over Africa Moon River Mr. President Railroad Hour Sears Radio Theater Smilin Ed's Buster Brown Gang Soap Operas Soldiers of the Press Speed Gibson Sports Thrills Superman Tarzan Treasury Star Parade Treasury Star Salute Vic & Sade World Adventures Club World War II Shows WSJV Complete Broadcast Day Your Army Air Force

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Obama's Plan to Destroy the Housing Market Once Again

The housing disaster is going to come back in a big way if Barack Obama has anything to do with it. According to the Washington Post:

The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.

President Obama’s economic advisers and outside experts say the nation’s much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind, including young people looking to buy their first homes and individuals with credit records weakened by the recession.

In response, administration officials say they are working to get banks to lend to a wider range of borrowers by taking advantage of taxpayer-backed programs — including those offered by the Federal Housing Administration — that insure home loans against default.

Housing officials are urging the Justice Department to provide assurances to banks, which have become increasingly cautious, that they will not face legal or financial recriminations if they make loans to riskier borrowers who meet government standards but later default.

We've seen this all before. During Bill Clinton's presidency, HUD secretary Andrew Cuomo pushed similar policies. As Reason notes:

The meltdown was the consequence of a combination of the easy money and low interest rates engineered by the Federal Reserve and the easy housing engineered by a variety of government agencies and policies. Those agencies include the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and two nominally private “government-sponsored enterprises” (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The agencies — along with laws such as the Community Reinvestment Act (passed in the 1970s, then fortified in the Clinton years), which required banks to make loans to people with poor and nonexistent credit histories — made widespread homeownership a national goal. This all led to a home-buying frenzy and an explosion of subprime and other non-prime mortgages, which banks and GSEs bundled into dubious securities and peddled to investors worldwide. Hovering in the background was the knowledge that the federal government would bail out troubled “too-big-to-fail” financial corporations, including Fannie and Freddie.

We've seen this cycle before: a government pursues a political goal with no regard for the predictable economic consequences, creating a free for all. Otherwise prudent institutions, aware of the consequences, nonetheless go along, lest they miss out on the record profits; the worst case scenario plays out. The government spends billions of dollars bailing out the well connected, and hardworking, middle class Americans suffer the consequences.

Source: AAN

What Black Lives Matter Really Thinks of America: Warning, Foul Language

This Guy is Risking His Freedom So that You Can Keep Yours

New York is a terrible place. This guy is doing something to fix it:

They want to put a red light to red-light cameras.

Long Islander Bryan Valentine, 26, was arrested Friday night for putting plastic bags over two red-light cameras at the intersection of Main Street and Landing Avenue in Smithtown.

Valentine is a follower of a group of self-styled “Red Light Robin Hoods,” who feel the cameras are a “money grab.” Members of the group hold get-togethers aimed at figuring out how to put the cameras out of commission.

The Saint James resident, who faces criminal-tampering charges, made bail Saturday and was released from the Suffolk County 4th Precinct station house. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 26 at Suffolk County District Court in Central Islip.

Red light cameras are a problem for those hardworking New Yorkers who have chosen to stay in a state they love despite high taxes. The state's fed up voters have demanded fiscal accountability, and cash strapped, patronage heavy municipalities unwilling to actually cut spending have turned to treating citizens like cash cows. Kudos to Bryan Valentine, and those like him, who are doing their part to expose the scam. 

Source: AAN

An Indiana Pastor Made His Congregation Unwitting Drug Mules in a Synthetic Pot Ring

Robert Jaynes Jr. must have been a little too inspired by Breaking Bad's Walter White. The Indiana pastor recently pleaded guilty to producing nearly 100 tons of synthetic marijuana and selling the stuff for $2.6 million. Some members of Jaynes's congregation helped to manufacture and transport the synthetic pot, known as spice or K2.

Jaynes told police that most members of his congregation believed he was running a "potpourri" business run out of warehouses near Irvington Bible Baptist Church, a parish he started 15 years prior to his arrest in October 2013. The "potpourri," however, was actually spice that Jaynes had either bought or produced himself with materials purchased from China.

In case this story wasn't weird enough, two married cops were also implicated in the drug ring for assisting Jaynes with security, and Jaynes would instruct other, unwitting members of his congregation to write personal checks to Reliable Distributing, a broker of raw synthetic drug powders.

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The Panama Papers Show Us That Every Political System in the World Might Be Rigged

And they're the result of a brilliant international exercise in investigative journalism.

MADISON, WISCONSIN—You'll have to forgive me, but it was the weekend, so I didn't manage to get through all 11.5 million files that were leaked regarding who was stashing how much money where around the globe. But I read enough to know that a whole massive amount of the world's financial and political corruption got dumped onto the Intertoobz, certainly enough to give more weight to the possibility that every political system in the world—even the nakedly authoritarian ones—is hopelessly rigged, and that the marvelous new world of the miraculous global economy is an even bigger thieves' paradise than you, me, or even Jamie Dimon thought it was.


Twelve national leaders are among 143 politicians, their families and close associates from around the world known to have been using offshore tax havens. A $2bn trail leads all the way to Vladimir Putin. The Russian president's best friend—a cellist called Sergei Roldugin—is at the centre of a scheme in which money from Russian state banks is hidden offshore. Some of it ends up in a ski resort where in 2013 Putin's daughter Katerina got married.

Among national leaders with offshore wealth are Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's prime minister; Ayad Allawi, ex-interim prime minister and former vice-president of Iraq; Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukraine; Alaa Mubarak, son of Egypt's former president; and the prime minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson. Six members of the House of Lords, three former Conservative MPs and dozens of donors to UK political parties have had offshore assets. The families of at least eight current and former members of China's supreme ruling body, the politburo, have been found to have hidden wealth offshore. Twenty-three individuals who have had sanctions imposed on them for supporting the regimes in North Korea, Zimbabwe, Russia, Iran and Syria have been clients of Mossack Fonseca. Their companies were harboured by the Seychelles, the British Virgin Islands, Panama and other jurisdictions. A key member of Fifa's powerful ethics committee, which is supposed to be spearheading reform at world football's scandal-hit governing body, acted as a lawyer for individuals and companies recently charged with bribery and corruption. One leaked memorandum from a partner of Mossack Fonseca said: "Ninety-five per cent of our work coincidentally consists in selling vehicles to avoid taxes."

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What's Faster on the Runway: Tesla or a Qantas Jet?

Delegate Carl Anderton Session Week #12

Session Week #12 We just wrapped up the 12th week of the 436th Maryland General Assembly and look forward to the upcoming week, which is the last full week. Legislative session ends on Monday, April 11th, which is called “Sine Die”. As I wrote last week, we will be working right up until midnight on Sine Die. When session ends we will re-open our Salisbury office. Look for that announcement in the coming weeks.   (Here, I was talking to Delegate Mary Beth Carozza, who I am blessed to sit beside on the House Floor.) This past week we worked on both the operating (SB190) and the capital budgets (SB191). They both passed with bipartisan support and await the Governor’s signature. The budgets include funding for local projects including: Salisbury University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and Shorebird Stadium, among others. I talked about the budget in an interview with WMDT, specifically mentioning that Governor Hogan’s budget included no new taxes for the second year in a row. In addition, the Baltimore Sun reported, “The budget leaves a $400 million surplus, as well as puts $1 billion into a rainy day fund. It also includes enough money to limit public college and university tuition increases to no more than 2 percent…” The Bay Bridge is a frequent topic of discussion on the Eastern Shore.  This week I was interviewed about the importance of the Bay Bridge by Fox 45. The initial bridge was opened for service in 1952, while the second followed in 1973. The bridge is not only a vital link between the people living on each side, it is also critical to the transportation of Eastern Shore goods and services to the larger markets on the other side. It also allows Eastern Shore residents access to jobs on the other side. It’s important that we begin the conversation now about how we are going to handle the ever-increasing traffic, while addressing safety concerns of the aging spans. This coming week we will see a flurry of activity on bills that have yet to pass both chambers. One of the bills that I co-sponsored will be voted on in the Senate this week is (HB431) also known as the “ABLE” bill. HB431 has wide bipartisan support and members of both parties are among the 67 co-sponsors. It passed the House with a 137-0 vote and I am optimistic that it will pass the Senate as well. The bill draws its’ inspiration from the Federal ABLE Act. Here is an explanation of the act from the Maryland Department of Disabilities website: On December 19, 2014, the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act was signed into law. This federal law will give many people who acquired disabilities prior to the age of 26 the ability to open tax-exempt bank accounts wit​​​hout losing eligibility for federal means-tested benefits. Funds in these accounts can be used for disability-related expenses. Eligible individuals must open an account in their state of residence, and most states are still working to set up programs to administer these accounts. Keeping in constant communication with a perpetually open door is our way of#makingithappen. We will continue to advocate for the Eastern Shore, poultry farmers, and our Shore way of life. I appreciate that you have taken the time to read our newsletter and thank you for your support. Please contact our office with any ideas, issues, or concerns that you have. We’re here to work for you. Blessed to be your voice in Annapolis, Carl

Missing Cat 4-5-16:Update

Hey Joe. Our cat, Mr. Socks, got outside 04/04/16 and failed to return home. He has yet to return home today. He is very friendly and gentle. Our family is concerned at his disappearance, but we are hoping maybe someone took him in with the old weather last night.
He has a VERY fluffy tail with stripes that is very unique. He disappeared in the vicinity of Wicomico Day School and Nick Meyers Park. Off Old Ocean City Rd near Beaglin Park. He is fixed, but did not have a collar on. Any information please call Renee at 443-880-4298. Thank you!!

This Candidate is Lying Through His Teeth

A Desperate Hillary's Hypocritical Plea

Last week, Hillary Clinton was absolutely creamed by Bernie Sanders, who pulled off a massive three state sweep that made him a thorn in Clinton's side once again. Her response? The Queen of Mean quipped that she would not debate Sanders again until he changed his tone. Many found this utterly ridiculous, since Sanders Campaign has been as meek as they come.

But with Bernie Sanders building a considerable lead over the Clinton clan in Wisconsin and rising in New York, the candidate has changed her mind. Now? She's demanding a debate with Sanders:

The Sanders campaign needs to stop with the games.

Over the course of the last week, we have offered three specific dates for a debate in New York, all of which the Sanders campaign rejected. We offered Monday, April 4 at 7:30 pm. We were told that the Sanders campaign rejected this date because they wanted the debate to be held after the Wisconsin primary and would make themselves available on any date between Wisconsin and New York. We then offered the night of April 14th and that was rejected by Sanders. While we preferred to do an evening debate on the 14th, we then agreed to a debate on Good Morning America on April 15, understanding that the Sanders campaign had already agreed to this forum. That, too, was rejected.

This is rich from Clinton. Aside from her refusal to commit to debating Sanders just a week ago, the candidate "coincidentally" benefitted from a series of DNC sanctioned debates that were scheduled when no one was watching.

Source: AAN

Gov. Larry Hogan Breaking Partisan Gridlock in Maryland