NEWS ANALYSIS Jeffrey Lawson is a familiar face in local government circles, as a nine-year veteran of the county public schools’ administrative staff. But that experience was like being an exercise rider at the racetrack before a recent elevation to the top jockey position: Superintendent of the Cecil County Public Schools. In his first...
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Tags: Alan McCarthy, Bob Meffley, budget, CCPS, cecil county, cecil county public schools, Cecil Times, councilor, County Council, county executive, D'ette Devine, Elkton, Jackie Gregory, Jeff Lawson, Jeffrey Lawson, Joyce Bowlsbey, reserve funds, school security, schools, security, spending, Tom Kappra, video cameras
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NEWS ANALYSIS The three water-filled jugs placed in front of the witness table at the Cecil County Council worksession on Tuesday (7/17/2018) were a graphic show-and-tell representation of what has been described in the past as a “holy crap moment” in the long and politically torturous saga of providing and paying for adequate sewage...
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Tags: bond rating, budget, cecil county, Cecil Times, County Council, crap, deficit, election, enterprise fund, fund balance, greg Meffley, Joyce Bowlsbey, Lisa Saxton, Politics, reserve funds, Scott Flanigan, Seneca Point, sewage, sewer, wastewater
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NEWS ANALYSIS It took a last minute impassioned appeal on Tuesday by Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy to defend his budget and his track record on improving the county’s economy, and an independent consultant’s endorsement of McCarthy’s budget, to deflate a belated effort by one Council member to trim a few budget items. As...
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Tags: Alan McCarthy, budget, Carl Roberts, cecil county, Cecil County council, Cecil Times, charter, consultant, County Council, county executive, Dan Schneckenburger, fisal, fund balance, greg Meffley, Jackie Gregory, Joyce Bowlsbey, spending, tax, Weyrich
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NEWS ANALYSIS It was mostly a meeting of the like-minded when four Republican candidates for the Cecil County Council met for a polite discussion of issues at a forum sponsored by the Republican Club of Cecil County on 3/15/2018 in Elkton. But there was an extra elephant in the room, apart from pictures of...
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Tags: Al Miller, County Council, Dan Schneckenburger, economic development, Ed Larsen, George Patchell, Jobs, Joyce Bowlsbey, Republican Central Committee, schools, Tari Moore, taxes, Thomas Wilson
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NEWS ANALYSIS We’ve seen it before in Cecil County politics: a disgruntled lone wolf creates a rump group with a name similar to a well-established organization to confuse the public and launch political attacks on the original group. So, a dissident online presence created in 2016 by conservative activist Vincent Sammons that had existed...
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Tags: Alan McCarthy, Cecil Countgy, Cecil County Republican Club, club, county executive, Dan Schneckenburger, Ed Larsen, George Patchell, Joyce Bowlsbey, Politics, Republican, Republican Club of Cecil County, Richard Ledwandowski, Thomas Wilson, Vince Sammons, Vincent sammons
Posted in Business, campaign finance, Cecil Chatter, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Times, Cecil Whig, Elections, Elkton, Michael Smigiel, politics, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Rising Sun, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
