The 2010 elections will bring change to Southern Maryland.  Let’s all hope that it is change for the better!
Levy to step down at end of term
Delegate, ex-commissioner has served since 1986
By ALAN BRODY, Staff writer
Del. Murray D. Levy, a fixture of public life in Charles County for nearly four decades, will not seek re-election [...]

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It would be up to the insurance companies to make sure that the government option isn’t “triggered.”
By Ed Henry and Dana Bash
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama and top aides have quietly stepped up talks with moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine on a scaled-back health care bill, according to two sources familiar with the [...]

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If you are a resident in the Town of Indian Head, you can vote between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM at the Village Green Pavilion.  If you are a La Plata resident, voting is open from noon to 8:00 PM at Town hall.

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From the Town of La Plata’s public notice:

The Town of La Plata will hold a General Election on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 8:00 p.m. The polling place for all qualified voters of the Town is the La Plata Town Hall, 305 Queen Anne Street. The Town will be [...]

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When I read the email from Scot Lucas posted by Jennifer, it was pretty clear to me that Mr. Lucas was talking about his opponent in the Town Council election.  As a La Plata resident in Scot Lucas’ ward, I know that Scot Lucas’ opponent is Keith Back.  We all live in the same neighborhood, [...]

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Jennifer:
 
On April 20 the LaPlata Business Association held a meet the candidate night at Town Hall.  After the meeting a few people were still gathered when one of the candidates stated he was rigorously opposed to a definition in the Town Code–
 
FAMILY–One (1) or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit, provided that, unless all [...]

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Republican Mark Sanford Has Been One of the Most Outspoken Critics of Obama’s Plan

By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 3, 2009; 1:29 PM
South Carolina’s Republican governor will break his political logjam with the White House over stimulus funds today, his aides said, becoming the last governor in the nation to officially seek billions [...]

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I signed an online petition today directed at the AIG bonuses.  I don’t know if it will help, but it made me feel a little better.
AIG Executives: Your Bonuses or Your Jobs!
The U.S. unemployment rate has risen to 8.1% – yet taxpayers are providing more than $170 billion in bailout assistance to help keep American [...]

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I missed this by a month.  I didn’t get the memo.
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The John & Yoko Amsterdam Bed-In took place from 25-31 March 1969 at The Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam, Holland.
The John & Yoko Montreal Bed-In took place from 26 May to 2 June 1969 at The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada, culminating in the recording of the anthem [...]

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It sometimes takes me a while to catch up on my reading. Usually what happens is I have three or four newspapers stacked up, I grab them, sit on the couch, turn on the TV and flip through the pages. Today, before tossing it in the recycling pile, I found this convoluted gem in [...]

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Does Maryland have any say in this?

Michael Neibauer, Examiner Staff Writer
More than a third of Americans believe the best solution to D.C.’s lack of representation is to cede the District’s residential areas to Maryland, according to a new survey.
Only 20 percent of the 1,000 likely U.S. voters surveyed this weekend by Rasmussen Reports thought D.C. [...]

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“What is the morals of a gay person? You can’t answer that because anything goes.”
~ Utah Senator Chris Buttars
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Oh, he said plenty with that little comment, but he’s been saying more.  I can’t wait until this breed of bigot in power evolves already.
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Tom Baldwin in Washington

President Obama’s political opponents, having tried and failed in the election to brand him a socialist or convince people that his background was “un-American”, are reprising the line of attack with claims that he wants to make a robustly free-market US economy look a lot more like Europe.
Mitch McConnell, the Republican [...]

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From this week’s batch of Postsecrets.

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Huckabee: Stimulus is ‘anti-religious’
Politico
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is “anti-religious.”
In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate’s passage, Huckabee wrote: “The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.”
The former Republican presidential [...]

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