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		<title>3 Amigos Aim to Give Cecil County Animal Control Contract to &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Group in Final Hours Before Charter Govt.; Settling Scores?</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2012/11/3-amigos-aim-to-give-cecil-county-animal-control-contract-to-buddy-group-in-final-hours-before-charter-govt-settling-scores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a final swan song before Charter government begins next Monday, the Three Amigos faction of the Cecil County Commissioners late Tuesday suddenly scheduled two “special” meetings so they can award an animal control contract to A Buddy for Life, a Delaware dog rescue group with no animal shelter and no experience in animal control, by the end of this week. A few minutes before 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, an email alert and posting on the county government website announced that there would be a “special meeting” of the Commissioners tomorrow, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday 11/28/12, and another “special meeting” at 10 a.m. Friday 11/30/12, “regarding the animal care and control contract between A Buddy for Life and Cecil County.” There was no public mention of such meetings, no details of a contract or pending action at the regular, public worksession of the County Commissioners held Tuesday morning. That worksession was previously scheduled as the last official meeting of the Commissioners before they go out of existence upon the onset of Charter government on Monday, 12/3/12 at noon. The Cecil County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Inc. (CCSPCA), which had bid on the contract but withdrew [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Commish Reject, in Secret Vote, Plan to Jumpstart New Tech School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 20:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report The Cecil County Commissioners decided in a recent closed door meeting to turn down—on the usual 3-2 vote&#8211; a proposed new school of technology on the Elkton site of the vacant Basell property that already has science labs and could be bought and renovated for about one-third the cost of past plans to build a tech school from scratch. The proposal would have jumpstarted the long delayed plans by the school system to upgrade vocational and technical education opportunities for high school students in Cecil County. And it could have been a cost-saving, landmark opportunity for the county to create an education/technology/business park on the 91-acre site that could be a lure for economic development and partnerships with other business and educational institutions. For several months, the County Commissioners and representatives of the School Board and Cecil County Public Schools officials have been meeting privately to discuss the opportunity to acquire the property. (The state Open Meetings law allows closed sessions to discuss real estate acquisitions.) Cecil Times has known from the outset about the proposed project and its location but refrained from publishing details, at the request of multiple sources, due to the sensitive [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Pipkin&#8217;s &#8220;War&#8221; on Cecil County, GOP, and Political Integrity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commentary and Analysis At “Cecil Night” in Annapolis a few months ago. Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-36) tried to convince some local business leaders that there really wasn’t a “Smipkin” political machine, led by him and Del. Michael Smigiel, and that they really had no interest in controlling Cecil County government. If only that were true. The massive Pipkin-financed smear campaign launched in the past week, with multiple robocalls and glossy flyers with one bogus or distorted claim after another—including accusing the strait-laced Tari Moore and Robert Hodge of smoking illegal drugs—show clearly that there is a Smipkin “war on Cecil County.” And it is war about control, power and trying to crush perceived “enemies” even if they are members of your own political party. The negative campaign is mostly financed by Pipkin’s campaign committee, “Friends of E.J. Pipkin, which is itself mostly financed by special interest Political Action Committees and out-of-county donors, according to state election records. Many of those donors would be surprised that some of their contributions to a state Senator&#8211; who is the top ranking Republican in the state Senate, Minority Leader, and has been mentioned for possible statewide office in 2014—are instead being funneled to negative [&#8230;]]]></description>
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