Conservative refuge

An interesting article in the Sun today about new county executive John Leopold’s directive to department heads to come up with 5-10% cuts in next year’s budget. Leopold, who ran as the stronger anti-tax candidate, is planning for expected revenue reductions by cutting spending rather than, at least for the moment, raising taxes. What a [...]

I had the opportunity yesterday to attend the swearing in of our recently reelected orphans’ court judges, Gail Schaffer, Nancy Phelps and Gordon Witherspoon and our newly elected Register of Wills, Lauren Parker. The outgoing Register of Wills, George Nutwell, was also honored for his decades of faithful service. I was pleased to be invited [...]

In today’s Sun there is an article about the debacle in deciding how to fix Severna Park Middle School. After a day long meeting and months of discussion, the board boldly determined to do nothing. The numbers are interesting. The three options presented, revitalization, modernization and building a new school came with price tags of [...]

It is official today as noted here that Don Dwyer (R-31) has defeated Joan Cadden to complete the Republican sweep of District 31. As noted weeks ago here, the challenge made by Cadden never had much of a chance and should have been abandoned earlier. Since the race was so close, however, we taxpayers get [...]

The story is approximately 100 years old. Company Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) in 1912 from its factory in New York for the first time the market represents Orao cookies. The idea came from the British market cookies, which was too simple and neinventiven. The first two flavors of cookies that had toured the world and [...]

Many dishes in the world owes its name to a particular person who conceived, or served as inspiration to make it tolkmu meal. Here is a story about three of these dishes and how to get the name. Caesar SALAD Quite mistakenly think that Caesar salad acquired its name after the great Roman conqueror. The [...]