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Ellen Sauerbrey compares Palin to Margaret Thatcher

Stan Moore — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:20:15 +0000

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who rose to national prominence last year as the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee, has announced she will not run for a second term as governor, and will resign from office in a few weeks.

Former Maryland Republican Gubernatorial candidate Ellen Sauerbrey calls Sarah Palin very much an American Margaret Thatcher.

Sauerbrey told WBAL’s Bruce Elliott that Palin can be a terrific candidate for president.

Sauerbrey says Palin is not stepping down because she is running away. She calls Palin a risk taker and an American patriot.

Tonight’s Live Music, 7/3/09

Stan Moore — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:00:09 +0000

Faster Faster Harder Harder with Mean Machine, Loose Lips at Sonar
Doc Hochman’s Dixieland Band at Rams Head On Stage
JB Beverley & The Wayward Drifters at Olde Town Tavern

Information from Pollstar and Localist.

Tonight’s Live Music, 7/2/09

Stan Moore — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:39 +0000

E. Joseph And The Phantom Heart with The Jagged Hearts, Freeway 111 at Sonar
Demivolt, Rev. Jack Starr Band, BlairBush at Sidebar
The “rep Yo’ City” Concert at Iguana Cantina
The Guggenheim Grotto at the First Thursday Concert Series at W. Mt. Vernon Park
Steep Canyon Rangers at The 8×10
Amel Larrieux at Rams Head On Stage

Information from Pollstar and Localist.

Tonight’s Live Music, 7/1/09

Stan Moore — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:00:21 +0000

Pianos Become The Teeth with Octaves, Werewolves, Age Sixteen at Sonar UPROAR, The Pogo, Suburban Showdown, Slimy Member, DisArmageddon, Point Blank at Sidebar The Strawbs and Van Der Graaf Generator at Rams Head On Stage Information from Pollstar and Localist. Related posts:Tonight’s Live Music, 6/30/09Tonight’s Live Music, 7/2/09Tonight’s Live Music, 7/3/09 Related posts:

Pharmacist charged with selling drugs

Jeff Quinton — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:30:59 +0000

WMAR

A suburban Baltimore pharmacist is accused of pocketing more than $300,000 from the illegal sale of prescription painkillers.

Federal prosecutors say Ketankumar Patel sold about 20,000 oxycodone pills to a single confidential informant between February 2008 and April.

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Prosecutors say Patel routinely filled bogus prescriptions at his Reisterstown pharmacy and even gave advice about how to forge prescriptions. He allegedly charged up to $1,800 in cash for 60 oxycodone tablets.

Motorycle crash closed I-97

Stan Moore — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:00:30 +0000

WBAL TV

A motorcycle driver was killed in a Tuesday afternoon crash in Glen Burnie, police said.

The crash occurred at about 2:20 p.m. at Interstate 97 and New Cut Road.

The crash forced the shutdown of I-97 as police investigated.

The driver’s name hasn’t been released, and further details weren’t immediately available.

Teachers’ union reaches agreement with Harford County

Stan Moore — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:30:37 +0000

WBAL.com

Harford County’s board of education and the Harford County Education Association, which represents about 3,000 teachers in the county, reached an agreement Monday which will take effect Wednesday, pending ratification by both sides. The teachers are not seeing pay increases in the deal.

According to a joint statement by the school system and the union, the contract brought few changes to the contract, maintaining health care and pay standards. The announcement comes following four months of negotiations.

“My fellow Board members and I are glad that we were able to reach an agreement with the Harford County Education Association,” the board’s President, Patrick Hess, said in the statement. “In light of tough economic times, we have reached an agreement which is best for all involved.”

So if they didn’t get a pay raise and just maintained the current health plan, wouldn’t the union members receive a de facto raise by cutting out their apparently worthless union membership fees?

Woman gets to keep house full of cats

Stan Moore — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:37 +0000

WMAR

Janice Brant says it was just a big miss understanding.

She doesn’t have 200 cats in her house.

Just a few shy of 60.

‘If I had 200 cats I would be gone….I have approximately 57 adults.’ Brant says.

Brant says she had a falling out with a former housemate who she says called the Cecil County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

They’ve been at her house off and on since last Friday….and her house passed muster from county housing inspectors.

There are cats in the living room, on top of the fridge, in all the bedrooms, including a kitten room, and a shed and old RV with quarantined cats inside.

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Judge closes trial to public in death of Crofton teen

Stan Moore — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:30:14 +0000

WBAL.com

An Anne Arundel County judge has barred the public from the trial of one of two teens charged in the death of a 14-year-old Crofton boy.

Judge Philip Caroom issued the ruling Monday allowing media at the trial asking that they not publish the names of the 14-year-old boy charged in the death of Christopher Jones and witnesses who are juveniles.

The ruling comes after Caroom learned of death threats against the teen charged as a juvenile with manslaughter and related counts. The teen will remain in custody until his trial this fall.

Sixteen-year-old Javel George faces the same charges in Jones’ death, but is being prosecuted as an adult.

To a large extent, your survival is your responsibility.

One Fine Jay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:15:11 +0000

The Maryland Daily Record has a report on one Yvonne Boughter, widow and former mother of two (now one). She has moved on from having settled her lawsuit with the Days Inn Hotel in Ocean City to suing the city’s fire department, and by extension, the city itself, to the tune of twenty million dollars.

The facts I gather from the report are disturbing, not so much in what she alleged to be negligent behavior on the part of Days Inn or that of the agents of the city, but she seems to act like she has no responsibility in the incident whatsoever. After spending the night in the room where she and her family fell ill, experiencing respiratory illness, she called the department at 9:43AM. She then called at 2:00PM to follow up. What happened in those four hours? Why did she not move her family out of the room? Why did she not elicit the help of the hotel staff, or strangers? After her 2:00PM phone call, her suite alleges she “lapsed back into unconsciousness.”

These, I’m certain, are questions that should be raised should this suit come to court. I still can’t get the idea that she, her husband, nor her two children had the conventional wisdom of leaving the hotel room and not coming back. I can’t imagine why she, in the absence of an EMS, did not try to hail a cab. I can’t imagine what kind of conversations went on in that hotel room. I hope for Ms. Boughter’s sake that it was not her words and deeds that kept her family away from a hospital that day.

911 calls, for all that they’re made out to be, should not be the only thing that a person in danger needs to be responsible for. If your house were on fire, after you call 911, do you just stand there and wait? Or do you crawl to the nearest exit? Miss Boughter’s story is a cautionary tale of over-reliance on public service.

Cross-posted on OFJ.