Odds and ends no. 12

This morning there’s not a lot of news out there, so I’ll place a smorgasbord of small items and updates in this post.

First is a mini-Election Calendar. Tonight I’m inviting you to our monthly Wicomico County Republican Club meeting starting at 7 p.m. with the social hour and getting down to business at 7:30 p.m. under our newly elected President Marc Kilmer (an occasional monoblogue commenter who I butt heads with from time to time. Despite that he’s a good guy and I look forward to serving under him.) Our speaker this month will be John Cannon, and hopefully he’ll be armed with information about the state of Wicomico County as we struggle with a number of issues like Landfillgate and its associated audit, the Davis Ruark situation, slowing tax receipts, budgetary dealings, privatization of liquor sales, and the possibility of a new Civic Center. (Think we could hit up Perdue for naming rights? That may bring in a few million.)

And just as an FYI, our next two speakers will be fresh out of this year’s General Assembly session. Delegate Addie Eckardt will be the guest speaker on April 28 and after a break for Memorial Day Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio takes her turn on June 23.

The other meeting of note next week will be the Lower Shore Young Republicans meeting at 7:00 on Thursday, March 27. They’ve gotten off to an impressive start and have grown enough to need a regular meeting site that can accomodate those interested. Both meetings will be held at the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce, 144 E. Main Street in Salisbury.

Sticking with politics, I got a note from Delegate Rick Impallaria (via the ever-handy Gail Bartkovich) that alerted me to how the House of Delegates voted on the FY2009 budget. While it passed with 34 votes against, Delegate Impallaria notes that is the highest vote total against in the six years he’s been in the General Assembly. Of the nine Eastern Shore Delegates, six of the seven Republicans voted “no” – the only exception being Delegate Page Elmore of District 38A. Not surprisingly, neither of the two Democrats voted against the O’Malley budget.

To change the subject drastically, sometimes monoblogue gets results. On Friday I lamented the absence of new posts on Karen’s A Woman’s Point of View. Yesterday she returned with a new post and a little credit to me for bringing her back. So enjoy reading and encourage her to write some more! You won’t be sorry.

Last Tuesday I was excited about my alma mater‘s women’s basketball team getting to the Big Dance – alas, it was a short trip as Miami University lost to Louisville 81-67. The other bummer was having the game on at the same time as Maryland vs. Coppin State so I didn’t get to watch. Our men’s team lost in their tournament as well, so it was a tough week all around. But the Miami hockey team did make the 16-team NCAA field despite losing to Michigan in their conference tournament (Central Collegiate Hockey Association) and will be the #1 seed in the Northeast Region, playing #4 seed Air Force in their opener.

So that’s a nice little breakfast buffet of stuff. Tonight I’ll discuss the WCRC meeting and hopefully have some good info about how Wicomico County is doing.

Author: Michael

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