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Tomorrow: Cecil County Tea Party

Just a reminder to our regular site visitors — tomorrow is the Cecil County Tea Party.  We’ll be there from 11am – 1pm. It will be at the property next to the McDonald’s in El...

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Mark Tapskot provided a link to the breakdown of the Obama-Waxman-Markey impacts by industry. The Center for Data Analysis (CDA) at The Heritage Foundation has conducted an econometric model study on...

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Your Invited: Tea Party

You are cordially invited to the Cecil County Tea Party on July 4th. The event will be held next to McDonalds in Elkton on Rt. 40 and Rt. 213 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. There is a great lineup of sp...

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Learning from history: Keynes on Inflation

On this day in 1883 John Maynard Keynes was born. I’ll take this opportunity to give you a quote from Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919): By a continuing process of inf...

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“Zero Budget” Suggestion

Over at the Cecil County Blog, reader C. Jagoe emailed suggestions for how to better manage the county budget and reduce wasteful spending. Remember, there is a cost we pay for government. This has li...

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COMMISSIONERS VOTE 5 – 0 FOR TAX INCREASE!

I was considerably disappointed and frustrated (to say the least) to hear the news about the May 26, 2009 budget vote and the raise on taxes. Considering our economic times and wasteful spending still...

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“Maryland taxpayers need to know their government is raiding another dedicated fund,” said Senator E. J. Pipkin (R. Upper Shore 36).  “This time, they are stealing money donated by Marylanders....

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Live: Cecil County Budget Meeting

** Live Blogging — scroll down for updates. *** I am sitting in on the Board of County Commissioners Budget Work session, which is taking a short break right now. The commissioners have asked so...

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Change you can expect: media-ownership rules

While the Obama administration continues to assert that they are not interested in bringing back the old “fairness doctrine”, you can certainly trust that “change” is in the wo...

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Letter of support for the sediment grant request

Lower Susquehanna Grant Letter View more documents from cecilyoungrepublican....

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CECIL COUNTY GOV 2008 EXPENDITURES BY DEPT

Continuing the trend of government transparency, Craig Whiteford, Cecil County Budget Manager, was kind enough to send me the attached file “FY 2008 EXPENDITURES BY DEPARTMENT.” Since we are in th...

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Final 24 Hours to fight Stimulus

I got this in my inbox from Americans for Prosperity. Please make sure to ad your name to the petition!! Tomorrow, we will present your more than 400,000 petitions and – if you can help us...

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A Stimulus in Name Only

The following is a guest editorial for the Colorado Springs Gazette in this last Sunday’s issue by Dr. Paul Prentice. It is reprinted here with permission by the author. Government can’t c...

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Contacting your Senators about the stimulus

INTERESTED IN CONTACTING YOUR SENATORS ABOUT THE STIMULUS? The main number is (202) 224-3121. And here’s a page of contact information with direct numbers, etc. HT: Instapundit...

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Big Brother cares about your health?

Yikes! This should certainly cause plenty of concerns for many Cecil County voters.  Bloomberg is reporting that the Obama “Stimulus” plan ( quotes denote sarcasm) had a radical socialist...

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