It just can’t be that a quarter of the country’s voting population is evil, or Marxists, fascists, racists or unpatriotic. Yes, plenty of each exist in a country with a population of 325 million. That’s just the law of averages, which also accounts for the 2.3 million felons, thugs, liars and cheats serving time in… Read more »
Opinion
Gazette Editorial: Anticipating results of Ocean Pines’ audit
Nobody doesn’t like a good mystery, which is what the forensic audit of the Ocean Pines Association’s finances has become as it enters its second, and possibly final, phase. Association members know — or can find out on the community’s web page — what the auditors have accomplished to date, but they won’t learn anything… Read more »
Editorial Cartoon: You want me to do what?!
Gazette Editorial: Lack of communication from county is puzzling
Maybe the decision required a vote and maybe it didn’t, but however the Worcester County Commissioners agreed last month to waive the fines against Deer Run Jeep Golf for sediment control and erosion violations, they won’t discuss it. Further, there’s no record of a vote or agreement in the minutes of the Sept. 18 meeting,… Read more »
Editorial Cartoon: Celebrate in Berlin
The Battle of the Caucuses
Gazette Editorial: Mathias, Carozza rivalry has nothing on D.C.
Given the increasingly bitter relationship between the major political parties these days, a rivalry so extreme that it’s destroying any sense of national unity by poisoning one half of the national population against the other, the argument between Sen. Jim Mathias (D) and Del. Mary Beth Carozza (R) about dirty advertising barely registers as a… Read more »
All the answers
Gazette Editorial: Town Council should side with developer
The question whether to include land at the corner of U.S. Route 50 and Old Ocean City Boulevard in Berlin’s growth area should be an easy one when it goes before the mayor and council on Oct. 9. There are a couple of reasons for that, not the least of which is that two-thirds of… Read more »
Gazette Editorial: Deferred maintenance has an easy solution
Figuring out who’s to blame for the failure to keep up with the maintenance of some of Ocean Pines amenities is easy: the responsible parties are — everyone. Rather than a culture of indifference, as Director Frank Daly asserted last week, it was the culture of disagreement on boards of directors that resulted in more… Read more »