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		<title>Smoke and Snooker, Promises and Placeholders: Will the Real Cecil County Budget Please Stand Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 22:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2022 budget, which will go before local residents at a public hearing on Thursday (5/20/2021), has become an ever changing list of promises and wishes—and a challenge to the County Council to figure out what is real or imagined. In addition, budget worksessions before the County Council disclosed this week that the Board of Elections (BOE) was significantly underfunded in the proposed budget, which covers the next fiscal year in which the BOE will have to implement costly new procedures under legislation passed this year by the General Assembly to expand early voting locations and absentee ballot distribution and processing in 2022. And the county health department also received a cut in county financial support. But witnesses said they had been assured by Hornberger’s administration that their agencies would get unspecified additional funds later in the year via budget amendments and the proposed budget amounted to placeholders for later actions. Where Hornberger would get the money for additional spending was unclear nor was there a timetable for such action or estimates of how much additional money might be available. No local budget is ever written in stone and budget amendments throughout [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State Marks 10K Virus Milestone, Cecil County Has 102; Hogan Orders Facemasks&#8211;but Claims Re-opening Business is Near</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Maryland marked a milestone in the spread of the COVID-19 virus on Wednesday (4/15/2020) with 10,032 confirmed cases in the state, and Cecil County’s count reached 102 cases. But Gov. Larry Hogan, while ordering all shoppers and store workers to wear facemasks and predicting that the state is still weeks away from a “peak” of infections, said he was working on plans to re-open businesses in the state. It was a remarkable mixed-message performance by Hogan, speaking at an afternoon press conference in Annapolis, and highlighted his dual roles as Maryland’s governor, presiding over a still escalating local health crisis, and his position as chairman of the National Governors Association. In the latter capacity, Hogan said he and other governors would speak with President Trump in a teleconference call on Thursday, at which the topic would be re-opening the states’ businesses. President Trump declared this week that he alone had the authority to order re-opening of businesses across the nation and to over-ride governors’ shut down orders. But after widespread criticism from health officials, governors and Constitutional authorities, Trump partially backed down to say he would consult with governors on their local situations, although he wanted at least [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>COVID-19 Virus Slams Calvert Manor Nursing Home, National Guard to Help; Elkton, Rising Sun Local Virus Hot Spots, Map Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sudden onslaught of COVID-19 cases at Calvert Manor nursing home in Rising Sun, with patients and staff testing positive for the virus, prompted emergency steps Saturday to bring in a special state medical “strike force,” including the National Guard. And new zip code data released Sunday by the state show Elkton and Rising Sun are the prime locations of confirmed infections in Cecil County. As of Sunday morning, there were 82 confirmed cases of the virus in the county, including one fatality. The numbers of confirmed cases have grown exponentially in recent days, from 17 cases reported by the local health agency on Wednesday 4/1/2020 to the 82 cases reported on Sunday 4/12/2020. As of Saturday afternoon, there were no known cases at other nursing homes in the county but local health officials admitted that they lacked sufficient testing supplies to verify virus status at other facilities. In Cecil County, the new state reporting of cases by zip codes showed Elkton with 37 cases and Rising Sun with 14 cases. That report totaled just 51 cases, or far less than the 82 confirmed cases reported by health officials so far in the county. The maps showed no cases in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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