Editorial cartoon: Berlin Falls
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Gazette Editorial: Public participation is the public’s job
Public distrust of government has been around since the beginning of organized rule, and it is no worse now than it was 100 or even hundreds of years ago. In the 14th Century Florentine Republic, in what would become Italy some 500 years later, skepticism of government was so great that voters elected new rulers… Read more »
Gazette Editorial: Berlin park has little to do with budget woes
New critics of the Town of Berlin’s purchase of the former Tyson chicken processing plant in 2015 are mistaken, when they argue that passing on that purchase would have eliminated the current need for a tax increase and higher sewer and water rates. The property, which was bought for $2.5 million drawn, in part, from… Read more »
Editorial Cartoon: Main Street Patriots
Gazette Editorial: Impeachment lecture was misrepresented
American patriotism is not threatening people who want to know how their government works. Neither is it defending one point of view to the extent that those who think otherwise risk physical harm. That’s tyranny, the prevention of which is the reason for our constitution’s existence and which it accomplishes by establishing the division of… Read more »
Editorial Cartoon: Toy Town
Gazette Editorial: For Berlin, tax increase may be the only answer
It had to happen sooner or later in Berlin — a significant tax increase that is, as years of municipal reinvestment in the community to aid its economic resurgence had to be repaid at some point. The costs of maintaining and delivering services, after all, are tied to a town’s desirability and attractiveness, both of… Read more »
Editorial Cartoon: Bailey Out
Gazette Editorial: OPA ‘transition team’ a source of confusion
By establishing a transition team to help replace departed General Manager John Bailey with a different management approach, the Ocean Pines Board of Directors risks confusing what should be a straightforward matter. Understandably, the board and Bailey parted company this week in the waning days of a budget struggle that frequently veered into left field… Read more »
Editorial Cartoon: Buddy Jenkins
