It’s that time of year again, when local governments start throwing around numerous property tax rates and revenue projections based on what’s known as the constant yield rate. The term and the rate come from the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, which decided several decades ago that constant yield rate is a more precise… Read more »
Opinion
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Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Public needs to pay attention to budget
With Berlin’s water and wastewater utilities continuing to fall far short of breaking even, and a cash reserve that needs big-time bolstering, the public process of hashing out the town’s budget for the new fiscal year takes on greater importance. Property owners — i.e. taxpayers — should acquaint themselves with the town’s fiscal facts now… Read more »
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Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Saleh, Holloway give officials straight facts
If there’s one thing good financial administrators and accountants can be depended on to do, it is to tell it like it is. Massaging the message and sugar-coating the math doesn’t happen, because the numbers are the numbers and can’t be denied. That’s more or less the approach Berlin Finance Director Natalie Saleh took last… Read more »
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Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Election rules revision has no good purpose
Election bylaw change: you must be this tall ___ to run for a seat on the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors. As ridiculous and smart-alecky as that is, it nevertheless reflects the nature of the effort by members of the OPA board to narrow the pool of possible candidates by creating a package of… Read more »
Letter to the Editor
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Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Giving credit where credit is due in OPA
As is usually the case, when something goes according to plan or exceeds expectations, the person at the top gets the credit. When the opposite occurs, and something goes awry or fails to achieve the expected results, the blame is assigned to that same individual. It’s just easier to do that than to think about… Read more »