The Cecil County Council made a strategic retreat Tuesday evening (2/2/2021), voting to rescind its previous refusal to consider five nominations by new County Executive Danielle Hornberger to the county’s Ethics Commission after she summarily fired all five sitting members. Faced with a threat that she would install her picks unilaterally if the Council...
Read more »
Tags: Bill Coutz, Bob Meffley, cecil county, Cecil Times, County Council, Dan Schneckenburger, danielle hornberger, GOP, harold McCannick, Jackie Gregory, Republicans, Vincent sammons
Posted in Alan McCarthy, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Democrats, Elections, Elkton, politics, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, women | No Comments »
NEWS ANALYSIS The national shock and horror of last weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH brought out the usual “thoughts and prayers” for the victims from a bipartisan roster of public officials, but that wasn’t good enough for State Sen. Steve Hershey (R-36), who represents Cecil County and three other...
Read more »
Tags: Boyd Rutherford, cecil county, Dayton, delegate, discrimination, District 36, Donald Trump, Eastern Shore, El Paso, GOP, governor, Hispanic, Hispanics, Larry Hogan, maryland, mass murder, Ohio, police, politician, race, Republicans, segregation, senator hershey, shooter, social media, Stephen Hershey, Steve Hershey, talk radio, Texas, Twitter, white nationalist, white supremacy
Posted in Business, cecil county, Cecil Times, Elections, Elkton, governor, politics, Politics, Republicans, Richard Sossi, Uncategorized | No Comments »
A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Karl.H. Fockler, a candidate for Cecil County State’s Attorney in the June Republican primary, is under court-ordered garnishment of his salary as a prosecutor due to court judgements for millions of dollars in unpaid debts. If elected state’s attorney, he would get a major pay boost and would be...
Read more »
Tags: 2018, appeal, Brenda Sexton, campaign, Circuit Court, COTAP, Court of Appeals, debt, double jeopardy, Edwin Fockler, election, GOP, judge, Karl Fockler, Michael Halter, Politics, primary, prosecutor, Republican, Republican Club of Cecil County, Republicans, State's Attorney, Suzanne Fockler
Posted in Business, campaign finance, cecil county, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Elections, Elkton, Michael Halter, Politics, real estate, Republicans, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
There were some tough questions when rival candidates in the June Republican primary for Cecil County State’s Attorney and the Register of Wills office squared off in a candidates’ forum sponsored by the Republican Club of Cecil County last week, putting some candidates on the defensive hot seat. In contrast, a panel of three...
Read more »
Tags: "Mike Smigiel", Amanda Bessicks, campaign, Cecil Times, chesapeake city, Circuit Court, Edwin Fockler, election, Ellis Rollins, judge, Karl Fockler, Kevin Urick, Lyn Nickle, Michael D. Smigiel, Michael W. Dawson, Politics, public defender, register of wills, Republican Club of Cecil County, Republicans, Sr., Will Davis
Posted in campaign finance, cecil county, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, chesapeake city, Democrats, Elections, Ellis Rollins III, governor, politics, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, State's Attorney, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Jason Gallion, a Harford County farmer and a former two-time candidate for the House of Delegates, has been named by Republicans in the two-counties of Senate District 35 to run unopposed on the GOP primary election ballot in June. His name would replace that of incumbent Sen. Wayne Norman, who died suddenly on Sunday....
Read more »
Tags: Andrew Cassily, barry glassman, cecil county, Cecil Times, delegate, election, farmer, General Assembly, general election, GOP, Harford County, Harford county executive, Jason Gallion, NRA, Patriots, Politics, primary, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Right to Life, senate, state board of elections, teresa reilly, Wayne Norman
Posted in Business, campaign finance, cecil county, Cecil Times, Democrats, Elections, governor, politics, Republican Central Committee, Republicans, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
