Backs funding for fire service Editor, I wanted to write in regards to the article in the paper where OPFD is asking for more money for staffing. As someone who has been an active first responder for the OCBP and the OCFD Dive Team, and has worked closely with these positions, let me share a… Read more »
Opinion
Gazette Cartoon
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Paid fire department will happen eventually
Ocean Pines, like many communities in this and other areas, might as well accept the idea and prepare for the eventuality of an all-paid fire and rescue service. Unless towns and communities revert to a way of thinking that has faded over the last 20 years, it’s going to happen at some point, as the… Read more »
Gazette Cartoon
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Creating budgets now requires extra caution
Budgeting is nothing like it used to be for business or government, both of which these days have little choice but to proceed prudently while fervently hoping the year ahead doesn’t go sideways. The last two years certainly did, rendering useless many of the logical conclusions on which budgets are based. Time was, budget masters… Read more »
Cartoons by Jim Adcock
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Gazette Cartoon
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
Gazette Cartoon
Cartoon by Jim Adcock
No easy solutions for short-term rental rule
Berlin, like many other municipalities, cities and counties, is trying to balance a scale that has property owners’ desire to earn income from short-term rentals on one side and traditionalists’ wish to preserve their long-held sense of community on the other. The fulcrum on which this debate teeters is what property law experts call the… Read more »
Letter to the Editor
OPA should adopt minimum wage This letter was sent to the Ocean Pines Association Board and forwarded to Bayside Gazette Members of the Board: On March 20, 2019, the Maryland General Assembly passed a new state minimum wage law. The law raises the state’s minimum wage from $10.10 to $15 by 2025. For example, in… Read more »