I'm a Salisbury University student, and I wanted to let you and your congregation know, that only by God's miraculous provision, were we able to set up a 24/7 prayer tent outside on Salisbury University's campus. It started this past monday and will continue till Monday, April 12th at noon.
We are welcoming Christians from the community to come join us in prayer for a couple minutes or a couple hours sometime this next week. The tent is open all day and all night!
We would love to gather with other believers from all different denominations to pray for revival in Salisbury. We are praying for the hearts of the believers to turn back to God in repentance and for the unbelievers to turn to God in large multitudes! If you look at history, you will see that the revivals in America never started in churches, but at prayer meetings or on college campuses. Please come support us in prayer! Who knows what opportunities God will open up!?
The tent is located outside of the Gurrieri building. Parallel park on Dogwood, or on the street next to Asbury Church. Walk around the right side of Gurrieri towards the middle of the campus. You will see the white tent!
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Special Edition Show Tonight
Folks, we're working on a Special Edition Show tonight and we're doing our very best to get it up by 6 PM tonight. However, this is about a 1/2 hour Show so it may air a little past 6 PM.
What to look forward to tonight.....
I went out and interviewed some business owners of the Downtown Plaza and I'm confident you'll be VERY interested in what they had to say. See you later tonight.
Rt. 50 East Bound From Royal Farms To Naylor Mill Road Closed Down
While I expect to get a Press Release later today, the Sheriff's Department was in a brief chase with another vehicle where the suspect started throwing what is suspected to be many bags of cocaine out the window and onto the highway.
K-9 Dogs were brought in to help collect as many bags as possible but we're told vehicles riding over them may have destroyed much of the evidence. More to come.
Mail Delivery Issues
Joe,
I would believe you and the readers may like to know this. About 2 weeks ago I did not receive the pay stub, that has been mailed for 3 years, And the next one 2 weeks later! So I had a track able order going through the USPS. The first one about 2 weeks ago came fine. BUT yesterday I tracked it and it said undeliverable.
BOTH addresses WERE Confirmed correctly. My jobs checks were always there.
Well I spoke with someone at the USPS over on Route #50 in Salisbury. She stated that the mail carrier has been fired and that we need to place notes in our mailboxes for them. The USPS person was very nice. BUT how many readers here in the Area have not received mail they were waiting on?
I was told this carrier was fired, fine, But what did they get away with? Something sure is fishy about this I sure hope that the person who I spoke with is correct, and that something like this does not happen again. Just wondering how many people were removed from addresses?
I would believe you and the readers may like to know this. About 2 weeks ago I did not receive the pay stub, that has been mailed for 3 years, And the next one 2 weeks later! So I had a track able order going through the USPS. The first one about 2 weeks ago came fine. BUT yesterday I tracked it and it said undeliverable.
BOTH addresses WERE Confirmed correctly. My jobs checks were always there.
Well I spoke with someone at the USPS over on Route #50 in Salisbury. She stated that the mail carrier has been fired and that we need to place notes in our mailboxes for them. The USPS person was very nice. BUT how many readers here in the Area have not received mail they were waiting on?
I was told this carrier was fired, fine, But what did they get away with? Something sure is fishy about this I sure hope that the person who I spoke with is correct, and that something like this does not happen again. Just wondering how many people were removed from addresses?
BREAKING NEWS: Another Thief Found In Wicomico County?
It seems every time you turn around here in Wicomico County, another thief surfaces.
This time it has been reported that an employee of the Wicomico County Library, specifically, the Eastern Shore Library in the basement has been placed on Administrative Leave for allegedly stealing from the Library/County.
Now we're not talking books or cd's here Folks. We're talking MONEY. We're talking personal services charged to the Library Account.
The growing concern is, is this person on administrative leave WITH PAY? We're also informed the Library has brought in an auditor to see just how bad it is. And these people want $30,000,000.00 for a new building!
In the mean time, the MSM sits idle and waits for news and information like this to be brought to them. I'm sure they'll use the old, its an ongoing investigation bit. Once again, Salisbury News Delivers.
More to come, I'm sure.
A Comment Worthy Of A Post
I was just thinking about everything I buy that has increased in price because of taxation. Everything from eggs and milk to clothes and vehicles. What kills me is the government says there is no cost of living increase. Really? That's odd because I know 7 years ago I rented a place for $900 a month now that very same rental property goes for $1300 a month.
I could go to the grocery store just 2 years ago once a week, spend $100 and my family of 4 could eat 3 healthy meals a day for a full week. Now I go grocery shopping once every two weeks and spend $200-$250 to get us thru lunches on the weekends, dinner every night, and maybe a weeks worth of snacks for the two kids.
I paid around $25 every 3 months for my W&S now I am paying $210, for poor quality water that I don't even trust to drink! Which adds to the expenses at the grocery store since I have to buy bottled water.
I could afford to fill up the gas tank in both my vehicle and my husbands for about $65 a week. Now it costs over $50 just to fill his, I have cut way back on my traveling so now my ability to put gas in my tank dictates where I can go in between pay checks.
I also find myself having to pick and chose which bills to pay since the electric bill is now over half of what my mortgage payment is. I recall getting car insurance based on my driving record, not on my credit score. I have been driving for 13 years, never had an accident never had a ticket and my husband is a truck driver with a spotless record yet every renewal our insurance creeps a little higher.
I remember a time I could afford to take my children out to eat, bowling, or to a movie. The last time they attended a movie it was a free summer flick at Center of Salisbury theater. The last paid movie was "Cars".
Just 4 or maybe 5 years ago I could walk into a store and see a variety of jeans I could buy for less than $15 now I have to wait until those jeans are on final clearance and hope like hell they have a pair..any pair.. left in my size to get a pair at that price.
I used to be able to buy shoes for my children for $15-$30, now I cannot touch a pair of shoes constructed well enough to withstand the wear and tear of little ones for less than $40 unless they are on clearance.
I am not saying the whole world is out to get us, I think the government needs to conduct an experiment. I want to see if they can live for 3 months on what us every day blue collar workers are making. We may not be high class or drive a Mercedes but damn it we work. We work hard to provide for our children. We educate our kids and teach them the importance of caring about others. We don't sit in the welfare office every month with applications on our laps, even though we would qualify if we applied. We don't do that because we are trying to make it on our own. I don't want to live off any one or anything other than our own hard work and dedication. The sad part is people just like us go to work every day, raise our children up right, and do everything in our power to make life enjoyable and affordable but we always get over looked. How is that right? So I wasn't born with a talent to make millions. So I have enough pride to not beg someone else to bare my burdens. Why can't all of us in this class be appreciated because we are what makes this country operate. The government needs to see if they keep making us, and those like us, feel like we will never be able to climb out of the hole and continue to step on our foreheads as we try, we will at some point give up. Then what happens? What happens when we have had enough and stop trying so hard to just live?
I could go to the grocery store just 2 years ago once a week, spend $100 and my family of 4 could eat 3 healthy meals a day for a full week. Now I go grocery shopping once every two weeks and spend $200-$250 to get us thru lunches on the weekends, dinner every night, and maybe a weeks worth of snacks for the two kids.
I paid around $25 every 3 months for my W&S now I am paying $210, for poor quality water that I don't even trust to drink! Which adds to the expenses at the grocery store since I have to buy bottled water.
I could afford to fill up the gas tank in both my vehicle and my husbands for about $65 a week. Now it costs over $50 just to fill his, I have cut way back on my traveling so now my ability to put gas in my tank dictates where I can go in between pay checks.
I also find myself having to pick and chose which bills to pay since the electric bill is now over half of what my mortgage payment is. I recall getting car insurance based on my driving record, not on my credit score. I have been driving for 13 years, never had an accident never had a ticket and my husband is a truck driver with a spotless record yet every renewal our insurance creeps a little higher.
I remember a time I could afford to take my children out to eat, bowling, or to a movie. The last time they attended a movie it was a free summer flick at Center of Salisbury theater. The last paid movie was "Cars".
Just 4 or maybe 5 years ago I could walk into a store and see a variety of jeans I could buy for less than $15 now I have to wait until those jeans are on final clearance and hope like hell they have a pair..any pair.. left in my size to get a pair at that price.
I used to be able to buy shoes for my children for $15-$30, now I cannot touch a pair of shoes constructed well enough to withstand the wear and tear of little ones for less than $40 unless they are on clearance.
I am not saying the whole world is out to get us, I think the government needs to conduct an experiment. I want to see if they can live for 3 months on what us every day blue collar workers are making. We may not be high class or drive a Mercedes but damn it we work. We work hard to provide for our children. We educate our kids and teach them the importance of caring about others. We don't sit in the welfare office every month with applications on our laps, even though we would qualify if we applied. We don't do that because we are trying to make it on our own. I don't want to live off any one or anything other than our own hard work and dedication. The sad part is people just like us go to work every day, raise our children up right, and do everything in our power to make life enjoyable and affordable but we always get over looked. How is that right? So I wasn't born with a talent to make millions. So I have enough pride to not beg someone else to bare my burdens. Why can't all of us in this class be appreciated because we are what makes this country operate. The government needs to see if they keep making us, and those like us, feel like we will never be able to climb out of the hole and continue to step on our foreheads as we try, we will at some point give up. Then what happens? What happens when we have had enough and stop trying so hard to just live?
ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLLLE
What: PreFight Press Conference
WHO: Fernando Guerrero & Mike Walker
Shawn Porter & Raul Pinzon
Where: Main St Gym located off Northwood Dr. behind United Electric
When: Wed April 14th 2:00pm
!!!!! ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLLLE? !!!!!!
Well, we are coming down to opening bell and in just 8 days Salisbury will be in the worldwide spotlight, as we send our own Fernando Guerrero into the ring to represent us. It will be the biggest night in Salisbury and we want all of you to up on every aspect of this huge Showtimes event
As always Prizefight Promotions and Team Guerrero work hard to keep our media associate up on any and all important developments and news items.
Prizefight Promotions and Team Guerrero will host a prefight Press Conference, Wed April 14th at the Main St Gym at 2:00pm
This will be an opportunity to talk to and interview, not only Fernando Guerrero, but his opponent Mike 'The Midnight Stalker" Walker of Chicago.
You will also have the opportunity to talk to our Co-Main Event Fighters
Shawn" Showtime" Porter and his opponent Raul Pinzon 17(16)-4 of Columbia South America.
Prizefight will provide food and beverage for the media, and the event is open to the public, so please broadcast this event within in all the respective media avenues you work in.
Team Guerrero, Prizefight Promotions and these fighters are working hard to put Salisbury on the map in a big way. Now you have the rare and unique opportunity to be a huge part of that.
Thank You All.
Hal Chernoff/ Team Guerrero
Late Bond Bill Additions Questioned
By Erich Wagner
Erich@MarylandReporter.com
The House passed the state’s capital budget Wednesday, despite Republican allegations that the House Appropriations Committee improperly added projects at the last minute.
Del. Susan Krebs, R-Carroll, accused Capital Budget Subcommittee Chair Adrienne Jones of adding projects to the budget that did not go through the proper process for local bond bills, the state’s version of earmarks.
“The process was violated by the very person who wrote the rules [for filing bond bills],” Krebs said.
Krebs unsuccessfully introduced an amendment that would take $1 million from the funding for those projects, many of which are for schools in Jones’ native Baltimore County. The measure would have put the money toward projects to fix aging schools. She said the money should be available for all schools in the state, instead of just the chair’s constituency.
“There was no bond bill, no hearing, and no paperwork [for these projects],” Krebs said. “This amendment just takes the money for those projects and puts it back in the Aging Schools Fund.”
GO HERE to read more from the Marylandreporter.
Erich@MarylandReporter.com
The House passed the state’s capital budget Wednesday, despite Republican allegations that the House Appropriations Committee improperly added projects at the last minute.
Del. Susan Krebs, R-Carroll, accused Capital Budget Subcommittee Chair Adrienne Jones of adding projects to the budget that did not go through the proper process for local bond bills, the state’s version of earmarks.
“The process was violated by the very person who wrote the rules [for filing bond bills],” Krebs said.
Krebs unsuccessfully introduced an amendment that would take $1 million from the funding for those projects, many of which are for schools in Jones’ native Baltimore County. The measure would have put the money toward projects to fix aging schools. She said the money should be available for all schools in the state, instead of just the chair’s constituency.
“There was no bond bill, no hearing, and no paperwork [for these projects],” Krebs said. “This amendment just takes the money for those projects and puts it back in the Aging Schools Fund.”
GO HERE to read more from the Marylandreporter.
Incurable Gonorrhea May Be Next Superbug
Some strains of STD showing signs of becoming resistant to all treatments
An alarming new superbug may be on its way — an incurable form of gonorrhea. The disease, once easily killed with a shot of penicillin, is increasingly becoming drug-resistant. Soon, the world may face a version that can’t be killed by any known antibiotic, warned Catherine Ison, the director of the sexually transmitted bacteria reference library with the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency.
In recent years, as the disease has evolved, medications once proven to kill the bacteria have become less effective except one, a class of antibiotics called cephalosporins. Now some strains of gonorrhea are showing signs of being resistant to even that, Ison told those at a scientific meeting last week in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"If this problem isn't addressed, there's a very real possibility that gonorrhea will become a very difficult infection to treat," she said.
GO HERE to read more.
An alarming new superbug may be on its way — an incurable form of gonorrhea. The disease, once easily killed with a shot of penicillin, is increasingly becoming drug-resistant. Soon, the world may face a version that can’t be killed by any known antibiotic, warned Catherine Ison, the director of the sexually transmitted bacteria reference library with the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency.
In recent years, as the disease has evolved, medications once proven to kill the bacteria have become less effective except one, a class of antibiotics called cephalosporins. Now some strains of gonorrhea are showing signs of being resistant to even that, Ison told those at a scientific meeting last week in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"If this problem isn't addressed, there's a very real possibility that gonorrhea will become a very difficult infection to treat," she said.
GO HERE to read more.
New Jobless Claims Rose Unexpectedly Last Week
Labor Department finds claims jump by 18,000 — a sign hiring remains flat
The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, a sign that jobs remain scarce even as the economy recovers.
The Labor Department said first-time claims increased by 18,000 to a seasonally adjusted 460,000. That's worse than economists' estimates of a drop to 435,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
The report covers the week that includes the Easter holiday, and a Labor Department analyst said seasonal adjustment for that week can be difficult since the Easter holiday occurs in different weeks each year.
GO HERE to read more.
The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, a sign that jobs remain scarce even as the economy recovers.
The Labor Department said first-time claims increased by 18,000 to a seasonally adjusted 460,000. That's worse than economists' estimates of a drop to 435,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
The report covers the week that includes the Easter holiday, and a Labor Department analyst said seasonal adjustment for that week can be difficult since the Easter holiday occurs in different weeks each year.
GO HERE to read more.
Both Obamas Surrendered Law Licenses, Very Interesting, WHY?
Just one more thing to add to the “Great List of Deceit.....
Big Surprise
Consider this:
1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a “lawyer”. He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. NOTE: Click on "lawyer" to see the actual documents.
2. Michelle Obama “voluntarily surrendered” her law license in 1993.
3. So, we have the first black President and First Lady — who don’t actually have licenses to practice law. Facts. Source: http://jdlong.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/pres-barack-obama-editor-of-the-Harvard-law-review-has-no-law-license/
4. A senior lecturer is one thing... A fully ranked law professor is another. Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Chicago .
5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March, 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “served as a professor” in the law school—but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.
6. “He did not hold the title of professor of law,” said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law . Source: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html
7. The former Constitutional senior lecturer cited the US Constitution the other night during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence … not the Constitution.
8. The B-Cast posted the video: http://www.breitbart.tv/did-obama-confuse-the-constitution-with-the-declaration-of-independence/
9. Free Republic: In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said: “We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal….
10. Um, wrong citing, wrong founding document there Champ, I mean Mr. President. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named them unalienable rights. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
11. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech???
When you are a phoney it's hard to keep facts straight.
Pres. Barack Obama – Editor of the Harvard Law Review– Has No Law License???May 15, 2009 by Johnny Alamo
I saw a note slide across the #TCOT feed on Twitter last night that mentioned Michelle Obama had no law license. This struck me as odd, since (a) she went to school to be a lawyer, and (b) she just recently held a position with the University of Chicago Hospitals as legal counsel — and that’s a pretty hard job to qualify for without a law license.
But being a licensed professional myself, I knew that every state not only requires licensure, they make it possible to check online the status of any licensed professional. So I did, and here’s the results from the ARDC Website:
She “voluntarily surrendered” her license in 1993. Let me explain what that means. A “Voluntary Surrender” is not something where you decide “Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?” and forget to renew your license. No, a “Voluntary Surrender” is something you do when you’ve been accused of something, and you ‘voluntarily surrender” you license five seconds before the state suspends you.
Here’s an illustration: I’m a nurse. At various times in my 28 years of nursing I’ve done other things when I got burned out; most notably a few years as a limousine driver; even an Amway salesman at one point. I always, always renewed my nursing license — simply becuase it’s easier to send the state $49.00 a month than to pay the $200, take a test, wait six weeks, etc., etc. . . I’ve worked (recently) in a Nursing Home where there was an 88 year old lawyer and a 95 year old physician. Both of them still had current licensures as well. They would never DREAM of letting their licenses lapse.
I happen to know there is currently in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City Indiana an inmate who is a licensed physician, convicted of murder when he chased the two burlars who entered his home and terrorized his family into the street and killed them. (And I can’t say I blame him for that, either.) This physican still has an active medical license and still sees patients, writes prescriptions, etc all from inside the prison. And he renews his medical license every two years, too. I tried looking up why she would “Voluntarily surrender” her licese, but Illinois does not have it’s 1993 records online.
But when I searched for “Obama”, I found this:
“Voluntarily retired” — what does that mean? Bill Clinton hung onto his law license until he was convicted of making a false statement in the Lewinsky case and had to “Voluntarily Surrender” his license too.
This is the former editor of the Harvard Law Review who doesn’t seem to give a crap about his law license.
Something else odd; while the Search feature brings up the names, any searches for the Disciplinary actions ends quickly.As in, Too Quickly. Less than a half-second quickly on a Search Engine that can take five seconds to Search for anything.As in, “there’s a block on that information” kind of thing.
So we have the first Lawyer President and First Lady —who don’t actually have licenses to practice law. There’s more to this story, I’m sure. I’ll let you know when I find it.
Big Surprise
Consider this:
1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a “lawyer”. He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. NOTE: Click on "lawyer" to see the actual documents.
2. Michelle Obama “voluntarily surrendered” her law license in 1993.
3. So, we have the first black President and First Lady — who don’t actually have licenses to practice law. Facts. Source: http://jdlong.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/pres-barack-obama-editor-of-the-Harvard-law-review-has-no-law-license/
4. A senior lecturer is one thing... A fully ranked law professor is another. Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Chicago .
5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March, 2008 saying Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “served as a professor” in the law school—but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008.
6. “He did not hold the title of professor of law,” said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law . Source: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html
7. The former Constitutional senior lecturer cited the US Constitution the other night during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of Independence … not the Constitution.
8. The B-Cast posted the video: http://www.breitbart.tv/did-obama-confuse-the-constitution-with-the-declaration-of-independence/
9. Free Republic: In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said: “We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal….
10. Um, wrong citing, wrong founding document there Champ, I mean Mr. President. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named them unalienable rights. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
11. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech???
When you are a phoney it's hard to keep facts straight.
Pres. Barack Obama – Editor of the Harvard Law Review– Has No Law License???May 15, 2009 by Johnny Alamo
I saw a note slide across the #TCOT feed on Twitter last night that mentioned Michelle Obama had no law license. This struck me as odd, since (a) she went to school to be a lawyer, and (b) she just recently held a position with the University of Chicago Hospitals as legal counsel — and that’s a pretty hard job to qualify for without a law license.
But being a licensed professional myself, I knew that every state not only requires licensure, they make it possible to check online the status of any licensed professional. So I did, and here’s the results from the ARDC Website:
She “voluntarily surrendered” her license in 1993. Let me explain what that means. A “Voluntary Surrender” is not something where you decide “Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?” and forget to renew your license. No, a “Voluntary Surrender” is something you do when you’ve been accused of something, and you ‘voluntarily surrender” you license five seconds before the state suspends you.
Here’s an illustration: I’m a nurse. At various times in my 28 years of nursing I’ve done other things when I got burned out; most notably a few years as a limousine driver; even an Amway salesman at one point. I always, always renewed my nursing license — simply becuase it’s easier to send the state $49.00 a month than to pay the $200, take a test, wait six weeks, etc., etc. . . I’ve worked (recently) in a Nursing Home where there was an 88 year old lawyer and a 95 year old physician. Both of them still had current licensures as well. They would never DREAM of letting their licenses lapse.
I happen to know there is currently in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City Indiana an inmate who is a licensed physician, convicted of murder when he chased the two burlars who entered his home and terrorized his family into the street and killed them. (And I can’t say I blame him for that, either.) This physican still has an active medical license and still sees patients, writes prescriptions, etc all from inside the prison. And he renews his medical license every two years, too. I tried looking up why she would “Voluntarily surrender” her licese, but Illinois does not have it’s 1993 records online.
But when I searched for “Obama”, I found this:
“Voluntarily retired” — what does that mean? Bill Clinton hung onto his law license until he was convicted of making a false statement in the Lewinsky case and had to “Voluntarily Surrender” his license too.
This is the former editor of the Harvard Law Review who doesn’t seem to give a crap about his law license.
Something else odd; while the Search feature brings up the names, any searches for the Disciplinary actions ends quickly.As in, Too Quickly. Less than a half-second quickly on a Search Engine that can take five seconds to Search for anything.As in, “there’s a block on that information” kind of thing.
So we have the first Lawyer President and First Lady —who don’t actually have licenses to practice law. There’s more to this story, I’m sure. I’ll let you know when I find it.
Possible Census Meltdown
As the U.S. census nears its final stages, the government is preparing for possible debacles that could derail its $15 billion head count, from mass identity theft and lawsuits to homeowners who refuse to answer their doors.
Census Bureau documents, obtained by The Associated Press, underscore the highly fragile nature of the high-stakes population count before the government dispatches some 700,000 temporary workers to visit homes, beginning in May.
The preparedness efforts are not entirely new. Previous censuses had contingency plans in place, at least conceptually, and the Census Bureau has never failed to meet its constitutional mandate of delivering population counts by Dec. 31 each decennial year.
But this is the first time the Census has detailed - in 300 pages of internal documents released under the Freedom of Information Act - specific risks to the once-a-decade government count. It's part of the bureau's approach to handling threats that could undermine accuracy, omit large segments of the public or add to already ballooning costs.
Many of the documents proved telling, even with portions redacted or withheld for security reasons.
"Considering the volume of data that the Bureau of Census gathers during the census, some loss of confidential data is bound to occur," one document bluntly states. Citing past missteps, such as the loss of work laptops by census employees in 2006, it details a rapid-response effort that includes notification of authorities, if appropriate, as well as free credit monitoring for potential identity theft victims.
One document says the "No. 1 concern" could be a refusal by immigrants to participate.
Placing a cap on costs if immigrants try to evade the count, the response plan notes that a census worker will attempt to visit a home six times at most - or fewer, if a resident makes clear he won't cooperate - before the worker questions neighbors to get the information. If that fails, the Census Bureau will statistically impute data based on characteristics of neighboring households.
In 2000, imputation, a statistical method that was not part of previous court battles over statistical sampling, increased the U.S. population by 1.1 million, particularly among urban racial minorities who would have been missed by a head count. Census Bureau director Robert Groves has ruled out sampling but not other statistical methods.
Another risk being monitored by the Census Bureau is the possibility of a conservative boycott following recent rhetoric, including one blogger's threat to pull out a shotgun to scare away census workers. The White House condemned the remarks Tuesday, and the bureau said it remains on the lookout for signs of a boycott or other trouble. Conservatives who refuse to participate may also be counted by way of neighbor questioning or statistical imputation.
"With these things, anything can turn on a dime, implode and impact our ability to recruit staff and gain cooperation," Arnold Jackson, the bureau's associate director for the decennial census, said in an interview. "We also remain terribly concerned about safety."
He said the bureau has tightened security procedures and boosted targeted advertising to specific groups, including a public service announcement released this week featuring President George W. Bush's former political adviser, Karl Rove. Still, while there have been anecdotal reports that conservatives may fill out only the number of people in their households, Jackson says there has been little sign of incomplete census forms received so far.
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Census Bureau documents, obtained by The Associated Press, underscore the highly fragile nature of the high-stakes population count before the government dispatches some 700,000 temporary workers to visit homes, beginning in May.
The preparedness efforts are not entirely new. Previous censuses had contingency plans in place, at least conceptually, and the Census Bureau has never failed to meet its constitutional mandate of delivering population counts by Dec. 31 each decennial year.
But this is the first time the Census has detailed - in 300 pages of internal documents released under the Freedom of Information Act - specific risks to the once-a-decade government count. It's part of the bureau's approach to handling threats that could undermine accuracy, omit large segments of the public or add to already ballooning costs.
Many of the documents proved telling, even with portions redacted or withheld for security reasons.
"Considering the volume of data that the Bureau of Census gathers during the census, some loss of confidential data is bound to occur," one document bluntly states. Citing past missteps, such as the loss of work laptops by census employees in 2006, it details a rapid-response effort that includes notification of authorities, if appropriate, as well as free credit monitoring for potential identity theft victims.
One document says the "No. 1 concern" could be a refusal by immigrants to participate.
Placing a cap on costs if immigrants try to evade the count, the response plan notes that a census worker will attempt to visit a home six times at most - or fewer, if a resident makes clear he won't cooperate - before the worker questions neighbors to get the information. If that fails, the Census Bureau will statistically impute data based on characteristics of neighboring households.
In 2000, imputation, a statistical method that was not part of previous court battles over statistical sampling, increased the U.S. population by 1.1 million, particularly among urban racial minorities who would have been missed by a head count. Census Bureau director Robert Groves has ruled out sampling but not other statistical methods.
Another risk being monitored by the Census Bureau is the possibility of a conservative boycott following recent rhetoric, including one blogger's threat to pull out a shotgun to scare away census workers. The White House condemned the remarks Tuesday, and the bureau said it remains on the lookout for signs of a boycott or other trouble. Conservatives who refuse to participate may also be counted by way of neighbor questioning or statistical imputation.
"With these things, anything can turn on a dime, implode and impact our ability to recruit staff and gain cooperation," Arnold Jackson, the bureau's associate director for the decennial census, said in an interview. "We also remain terribly concerned about safety."
He said the bureau has tightened security procedures and boosted targeted advertising to specific groups, including a public service announcement released this week featuring President George W. Bush's former political adviser, Karl Rove. Still, while there have been anecdotal reports that conservatives may fill out only the number of people in their households, Jackson says there has been little sign of incomplete census forms received so far.
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KAREN MIHALIK Recognized As 2010 Outstanding Public Health Leader
(Salisbury, MD.) Mrs. Karen Mihalik, R.N., CIC, Infection Preventionist at Peninsula Regional Medical Center, was recognized as the 2010 Outstanding Public Health Leader for Wicomico County at a ceremony held April 6, 2010 at the William C. Fritz Health Center in Salisbury. The award ceremony was held in recognition of National Public Health Week, April 5-11, 2010.
Mrs. Mihalik is described as a dynamic individual who always displays a positive attitude and demonstrates thoughtful attention, energy and innovation in her position which ultimately protects the citizens of Wicomico County from infectious diseases.
Mrs. Mihalik is to be commended for her tireless efforts to improve the health of Wicomico County residents and for her accomplishment on being recognized as Wicomico County's 2010 Outstanding Public Health Leader.
(L-R) Brandy Wink (Wicomico Co. Deputy Health Officer)
Karen Mihalik (2010 Outstanding Public Health Leader)
Lori Brewster (Wicomico Co. Health Officer)
What Happened To Local News?
There was a day when WBOC, WMDT and the Daily Times would report on mainly local news, meaning Salisbury and Ocean City.
Today, things are quite different. They are now pulling more state wide and national news and doing far less local coverage. Some complain about WBOC doing so much coverage in Delaware and now they're covering the "MID SHORE" with green reporters, almost forgetting which TV Station they work for. After watching the local news stations recently even I am amazed at how little coverage they give to OC and Salisbury.
Yesterday we watched WBOC do a story about Salisbury becoming a candidate for an All American City. Now the funny part is, they went to the Downtown Plaza and actually shot their footage right in front of WMDT's building.
They continued to show different angles, trying to make things look busier than they were but only ONE person walked past them at the time and she seemed to be very reluctant to talk to them. The interview sucked, (as it usually does) voices cracking, red faces, you know the drill. Reporters never seem to make people feel comfortable, more than likely because they too are scared to death.
For me personally, I want you to feel a part of the interview/conversation. However, WBOC can't be too particular, since it's a pretty rare sighting seeing someone actually walk down the Downtown Plaza any more these days. I can see it now. Oh please do this interview with us. We haven't seen anyone else for an hour. Oh please, please, please, please, please!!!!! Alright, here's twenty bucks. Now just smile and agree with us, OK!
Back to you Charlie.
Today, things are quite different. They are now pulling more state wide and national news and doing far less local coverage. Some complain about WBOC doing so much coverage in Delaware and now they're covering the "MID SHORE" with green reporters, almost forgetting which TV Station they work for. After watching the local news stations recently even I am amazed at how little coverage they give to OC and Salisbury.
Yesterday we watched WBOC do a story about Salisbury becoming a candidate for an All American City. Now the funny part is, they went to the Downtown Plaza and actually shot their footage right in front of WMDT's building.
They continued to show different angles, trying to make things look busier than they were but only ONE person walked past them at the time and she seemed to be very reluctant to talk to them. The interview sucked, (as it usually does) voices cracking, red faces, you know the drill. Reporters never seem to make people feel comfortable, more than likely because they too are scared to death.
For me personally, I want you to feel a part of the interview/conversation. However, WBOC can't be too particular, since it's a pretty rare sighting seeing someone actually walk down the Downtown Plaza any more these days. I can see it now. Oh please do this interview with us. We haven't seen anyone else for an hour. Oh please, please, please, please, please!!!!! Alright, here's twenty bucks. Now just smile and agree with us, OK!
Back to you Charlie.
Maryland's 2010 Legislative Summary
Marylanders For Fair Property Taxation
516 Walters Mill Road Forest Hill, Maryland 21050-1428 (410) 879-7993
April 7, 2010
The 2010 Maryland legislative session is just about over. Again this year, we taxpayers sent about 200 elected officials to the General Assembly to represent us and conduct the State’s business in the best interests of the majority of taxpaying residents of this state.
Approximately 2500 bills were introduced, of which, at the time of this writing, 46 had actually been passed. We know we do not need 2500 new laws on our books but we also know that just as was the law in the Roman days that if our elected representatives really did the job we elect them to do we could get a few needed, necessary, appropriate bills passed. Perhaps we need to re-institute Roman law and when a bill is introduced, does not have the ability to become law, the legislator who introduced the failed bill is hung by his thumbs. Might promote some more thought‼! Maybe even get some much needed legislation passed.
We spend millions of dollars sending these people to Annapolis to REPRESENT US BUT IN ESSENCE GET VERY LITTLE FROM THEM. IT IS TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE. The voice of the taxpaying public has again been completely ignored as none of the bills regarding property tax reform ever came out of committee. Committees should be limited to reviewing bills for merit, constitutionality, completeness, public value and interest and passed on to the respective house with a recommendation for or against the bill with appropriate comments. All of the respective assembly members we elect should then act upon the measures. THAT IS THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS‼‼
In the infinite wisdom of Senator Currie, Chairman Budget and Taxation Committee and Delegate Hixson, Chairman Ways and Means Committee those bills of specific interest to all property taxpayers for the sixth year were again shoved in the drawer never to see the light of day. We suggest you write and e-mail these committee members as well as your individual Senators and Delegates to ask why they did not do more to bring these bills to the floor where ALL of the representatives we elect could act upon them. Perhaps you will get a better response than we received last year when we asked for an explanation of the inaction and Senator Currie mistakenly sent us an e-mail intended for others but which read “Should we answer this?” We responded with a resounding “yes” but still received no answer.
We think the folks in Baltimore City, Prince George’s, and Montgomery County where most of the committee members reside should take a hard look at these elected representatives, see what if anything they did for us this year and then VOTE accordingly in November. It is hard for us to understand how the taxpayers in Baltimore City, Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties who have the largest number of property assessment appeals have failed to support these measures as the taxpayers of Harford County and the Eastern Shore have done. What are you thinking? What are you waiting for?
FAILED BILLS
SB 190 = HB 658 Seniors Tax Relief Act - allowed deduction for additional exemptions under MD. income tax for individuals..
SB 409 = HB 538 Property Tax- Annual Assessment - changes the three year assessment period to an annual assessment.
SB 458 = HB 204 - Task Force Property Assessment and Appeals reform bill. - review the current assessment system, evaluate its effectiveness, study alternative methods of creating assessments which would result in fair, uniform, and equitable assessments commensurate with current market values.
SB 712 Maryland Taxpayer Protection Act - a new section to the Maryland Constitution requiring three-fifths of the members of each House of the General assembly to pass legislation to increase the rate of an existing tax or to impose a new tax on an individual or entity..
SB 724 Property Owners Bill of Rights – codifies rights for property taxpayers to receive educational assessment meetings, to record hearings, minimum of 90 minutes for hearing, extends time to appeal to 180 days, requires physical inspection of appealed property, requires more data to be furnished by SDAT to document value, and allows a change of hearing venue.
For full text and how your representative voted on any of these bills -- See www.mlis.state.md.us.
Contact the members of the Ways and Means Committee --- e-mail addresses are all in this format followed by @house.state.md.us
sheila.hixson annmarie.doory joseph.bartlett kumar.barve joseph.boteler jon.cardin page.elmore bill.frick ron.george jim.gilchrist carolyn.howard jolene.ivey anne.kaiser peter.murphy leroy.meyers john.olszewski craig.rice justin.ross christopher.shank melvin.stukes frank.turner jay.walker
Contact the members of the Budget and Taxation Committee ---- e-mail addresses are all in this format followed by @senate.state.md.us
ulysses.currie edward.kasemeyer david.brinkley james.degrange george.edwards verna.jones nancy.king rona.kramer richard.madaleno nathaniel.mcfadden donald.munson douglas.peters james.robey lowell.stoltzfus bobby.zirkin
Let them know how you feel. Let them know we will be letting them know how we feel in November.
516 Walters Mill Road Forest Hill, Maryland 21050-1428 (410) 879-7993
April 7, 2010
The 2010 Maryland legislative session is just about over. Again this year, we taxpayers sent about 200 elected officials to the General Assembly to represent us and conduct the State’s business in the best interests of the majority of taxpaying residents of this state.
Approximately 2500 bills were introduced, of which, at the time of this writing, 46 had actually been passed. We know we do not need 2500 new laws on our books but we also know that just as was the law in the Roman days that if our elected representatives really did the job we elect them to do we could get a few needed, necessary, appropriate bills passed. Perhaps we need to re-institute Roman law and when a bill is introduced, does not have the ability to become law, the legislator who introduced the failed bill is hung by his thumbs. Might promote some more thought‼! Maybe even get some much needed legislation passed.
We spend millions of dollars sending these people to Annapolis to REPRESENT US BUT IN ESSENCE GET VERY LITTLE FROM THEM. IT IS TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE. The voice of the taxpaying public has again been completely ignored as none of the bills regarding property tax reform ever came out of committee. Committees should be limited to reviewing bills for merit, constitutionality, completeness, public value and interest and passed on to the respective house with a recommendation for or against the bill with appropriate comments. All of the respective assembly members we elect should then act upon the measures. THAT IS THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS‼‼
In the infinite wisdom of Senator Currie, Chairman Budget and Taxation Committee and Delegate Hixson, Chairman Ways and Means Committee those bills of specific interest to all property taxpayers for the sixth year were again shoved in the drawer never to see the light of day. We suggest you write and e-mail these committee members as well as your individual Senators and Delegates to ask why they did not do more to bring these bills to the floor where ALL of the representatives we elect could act upon them. Perhaps you will get a better response than we received last year when we asked for an explanation of the inaction and Senator Currie mistakenly sent us an e-mail intended for others but which read “Should we answer this?” We responded with a resounding “yes” but still received no answer.
We think the folks in Baltimore City, Prince George’s, and Montgomery County where most of the committee members reside should take a hard look at these elected representatives, see what if anything they did for us this year and then VOTE accordingly in November. It is hard for us to understand how the taxpayers in Baltimore City, Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties who have the largest number of property assessment appeals have failed to support these measures as the taxpayers of Harford County and the Eastern Shore have done. What are you thinking? What are you waiting for?
FAILED BILLS
SB 190 = HB 658 Seniors Tax Relief Act - allowed deduction for additional exemptions under MD. income tax for individuals..
SB 409 = HB 538 Property Tax- Annual Assessment - changes the three year assessment period to an annual assessment.
SB 458 = HB 204 - Task Force Property Assessment and Appeals reform bill. - review the current assessment system, evaluate its effectiveness, study alternative methods of creating assessments which would result in fair, uniform, and equitable assessments commensurate with current market values.
SB 712 Maryland Taxpayer Protection Act - a new section to the Maryland Constitution requiring three-fifths of the members of each House of the General assembly to pass legislation to increase the rate of an existing tax or to impose a new tax on an individual or entity..
SB 724 Property Owners Bill of Rights – codifies rights for property taxpayers to receive educational assessment meetings, to record hearings, minimum of 90 minutes for hearing, extends time to appeal to 180 days, requires physical inspection of appealed property, requires more data to be furnished by SDAT to document value, and allows a change of hearing venue.
For full text and how your representative voted on any of these bills -- See www.mlis.state.md.us.
Contact the members of the Ways and Means Committee --- e-mail addresses are all in this format followed by @house.state.md.us
sheila.hixson annmarie.doory joseph.bartlett kumar.barve joseph.boteler jon.cardin page.elmore bill.frick ron.george jim.gilchrist carolyn.howard jolene.ivey anne.kaiser peter.murphy leroy.meyers john.olszewski craig.rice justin.ross christopher.shank melvin.stukes frank.turner jay.walker
Contact the members of the Budget and Taxation Committee ---- e-mail addresses are all in this format followed by @senate.state.md.us
ulysses.currie edward.kasemeyer david.brinkley james.degrange george.edwards verna.jones nancy.king rona.kramer richard.madaleno nathaniel.mcfadden donald.munson douglas.peters james.robey lowell.stoltzfus bobby.zirkin
Let them know how you feel. Let them know we will be letting them know how we feel in November.
Farmers & The Bay
I have been a farmer all my life. I also used to be a state legislator and Secretary of Agriculture. So I was very interested in the fight in Annapolis about whether the taxpayer-supported University of Maryland law school should be suing a farm family. I would like to offer some thoughts on the matter.
Farmers are being accused of polluting the Chesapeake Bay. Because of this, some environmental groups are going after farmers very aggressively. One such group is the Waterkeepers, which has a history of using lawsuits to get their way. It was their lawsuit against a farm family that lives about a dozen miles from me that started this whole chain of events.
The Waterkeepers said they found a pile of chicken litter on the ground and claimed it was polluting the water in a nearby ditch. I found it interesting that they said they found this pile in October, but waited until December to make any announcement. If it was such a source of pollution, they should have spoken up right away. Then they said they were going to sue within 60 days. At no time along the way did they get in touch with the farm family or offer to help stop the pollution they claimed they found.
Then it was proven that the pile was not chicken litter. Instead it was Class A biosolids (treated municipal sewage sludge from Ocean City). Farmers use these biosolids as fertilizer, and it is an approved use. But the Waterkeepers still did not give up their lawsuit. And it seems they got the law school students involved by telling them they were going after some big polluters.
It is bad enough to use taxpayer money to help put farmers out of business. It is even worse to file a lawsuit when they did not even have their facts right. The Maryland Department of the Environment said the sewage sludge may not have even caused the pollution, since there are many other sources (such as wildlife) that could have caused the same readings in the ditch.
I know families who once farmed but have now gone into other businesses. Some did so because they were losing so much money they could not afford to farm any longer. Others quit because their kids had to move to other areas to find work and they did not have anyone in the family to take up farming. Many farmers have no choice but to sell their land, which turns into housing developments.
I learned many years ago that a well-managed acre of farmland produces a lot less pollution than an acre of housing. Farmers are doing this by using cover crops, nutrient management plans and other best practices. They are doing it very well. If we help farmers stay in business, the result will be far less harm to the Chesapeake Bay.
No one I know, myself included, wants to see our waters and land polluted. Farmers were the first environmentalists. We need our land to make a living. We love the Eastern Shore and want to be good stewards of God's creation. But this lawsuit, and more like it, will drive farmers out of business.
I hope everyone who has a farm, who benefits from having agriculture in our region and who appreciates our quality of life will call on the Waterkeepers to stop using threats and lawsuits. If they really want to clean the bay, let them start working with our farmers to protect our environment.
Lewis R. Riley
Parsonsburg
Farmers are being accused of polluting the Chesapeake Bay. Because of this, some environmental groups are going after farmers very aggressively. One such group is the Waterkeepers, which has a history of using lawsuits to get their way. It was their lawsuit against a farm family that lives about a dozen miles from me that started this whole chain of events.
The Waterkeepers said they found a pile of chicken litter on the ground and claimed it was polluting the water in a nearby ditch. I found it interesting that they said they found this pile in October, but waited until December to make any announcement. If it was such a source of pollution, they should have spoken up right away. Then they said they were going to sue within 60 days. At no time along the way did they get in touch with the farm family or offer to help stop the pollution they claimed they found.
Then it was proven that the pile was not chicken litter. Instead it was Class A biosolids (treated municipal sewage sludge from Ocean City). Farmers use these biosolids as fertilizer, and it is an approved use. But the Waterkeepers still did not give up their lawsuit. And it seems they got the law school students involved by telling them they were going after some big polluters.
It is bad enough to use taxpayer money to help put farmers out of business. It is even worse to file a lawsuit when they did not even have their facts right. The Maryland Department of the Environment said the sewage sludge may not have even caused the pollution, since there are many other sources (such as wildlife) that could have caused the same readings in the ditch.
I know families who once farmed but have now gone into other businesses. Some did so because they were losing so much money they could not afford to farm any longer. Others quit because their kids had to move to other areas to find work and they did not have anyone in the family to take up farming. Many farmers have no choice but to sell their land, which turns into housing developments.
I learned many years ago that a well-managed acre of farmland produces a lot less pollution than an acre of housing. Farmers are doing this by using cover crops, nutrient management plans and other best practices. They are doing it very well. If we help farmers stay in business, the result will be far less harm to the Chesapeake Bay.
No one I know, myself included, wants to see our waters and land polluted. Farmers were the first environmentalists. We need our land to make a living. We love the Eastern Shore and want to be good stewards of God's creation. But this lawsuit, and more like it, will drive farmers out of business.
I hope everyone who has a farm, who benefits from having agriculture in our region and who appreciates our quality of life will call on the Waterkeepers to stop using threats and lawsuits. If they really want to clean the bay, let them start working with our farmers to protect our environment.
Lewis R. Riley
Parsonsburg
SALISBURY UNIV. MENS' LACROSSE KEEPS ROLLING ON
SALISBURY, Md. – The Salisbury University men's lacrosse team got its first chance of 2010 to defend its newly-earned No. 1 national ranking Wednesday night and did so in fine fashion, taking down Capital Athletic Conference opponent St. Mary's (Md.) College, 18-5.
The Sea Gulls (13-0, 4-0 CAC) grabbed a 3-0 lead just eight minutes into the game, with two of the goals coming off the stick of senior Jake DeLillo (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and never looked back. The Seahawks (6-4, 3-1 CAC) were able to get one goal back, trailing just 3-1 through the first 15 minutes of play, but it was all Salisbury the rest of the way.
Another three-goal burst to start the second quarter stretched the edge to 6-1 and Salisbury could rely on its defense and goalkeeper Johnny Rodriguez (Gambrills, Md.) the rest of the way. Rodriguez saw action into the second half, playing just under 49 minutes in the game, turning away eight Seahawk shots.
While the Salisbury defense held St. Mary's to just five goals, the Sea Gull offense kept coming, led by DeLillo who finished with four goals and senior Mike Von Kamecke (Winter Park, Fla.), who put up a hat trick. Junior Shawn Zordani (Littleton, Colo.) and sophomore Sam Bradman (Canton, N.Y.) each scored a pair of goals. Bradman's scores in today's victory give him a total of 40 goals for the 2010 season.
The Sea Gulls will host Hood College on Saturday, April 10 at 1:00 p.m. It will mark the second of three-straight home games for Salisbury. The maroon and gold will also host York (Pa.) College on Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m.
Source: http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=18885
The Sea Gulls (13-0, 4-0 CAC) grabbed a 3-0 lead just eight minutes into the game, with two of the goals coming off the stick of senior Jake DeLillo (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and never looked back. The Seahawks (6-4, 3-1 CAC) were able to get one goal back, trailing just 3-1 through the first 15 minutes of play, but it was all Salisbury the rest of the way.
Another three-goal burst to start the second quarter stretched the edge to 6-1 and Salisbury could rely on its defense and goalkeeper Johnny Rodriguez (Gambrills, Md.) the rest of the way. Rodriguez saw action into the second half, playing just under 49 minutes in the game, turning away eight Seahawk shots.
While the Salisbury defense held St. Mary's to just five goals, the Sea Gull offense kept coming, led by DeLillo who finished with four goals and senior Mike Von Kamecke (Winter Park, Fla.), who put up a hat trick. Junior Shawn Zordani (Littleton, Colo.) and sophomore Sam Bradman (Canton, N.Y.) each scored a pair of goals. Bradman's scores in today's victory give him a total of 40 goals for the 2010 season.
The Sea Gulls will host Hood College on Saturday, April 10 at 1:00 p.m. It will mark the second of three-straight home games for Salisbury. The maroon and gold will also host York (Pa.) College on Tuesday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m.
Source: http://www.laxpower.com/laxnews/news.php?story=18885
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