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		<title>Judge Rules Smigiel Off the Hook to Pay Taxpayers&#8217; $40K Legal Bill for his Lawsuit Against Cecil County</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know it’s going to be an interesting, or circuitous, argument when a legal or political document begins with an 1835 quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville, that astute observer of early America. A Circuit Court judge recently struck both legal and political notes in ruling that Del. Michael Smigiel (R-36) should not be required to pay nearly $40,000 in county legal fees for his losing lawsuit challenging Tari Moore’s change in political party registration. “There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn’t sooner or later turn into a judicial one,” visiting Judge Thomas E. Marshall wrote, beginning his opinion with the quotation from de Tocqueville. And the judge cited lots of local politics before concluding that Smigiel’s handling of his lawsuit didn’t rise to the level of “bad faith” that would meet stringent state legal standards for “sanctions” that would have required him to compensate the county government for legal fees it had to pay to defend itself against Smigiel’s lawsuit. “The original complaint contained allegations of political chicanery,” the judge observed. And Smigiel’s named client in the case, Chris Zeauskas, chair of the county’s Republican Central Committee, was “not amused by Mrs. Moore’s political maneuver.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Twilight Zone: Broomell Rants Over Court Settlement&#8217;s Reversal of Amigos 2011 Zoning Coup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To settle a lengthy and costly court case, Cecil County will reverse a 2011 decision by the old “Three Amigos” faction of the County Commissioners board to strip a Perryville property of its heavy industry zoning and downgrade it to the most restrictive agricultural designation. But Councilor Diana Broomell, who led the downzoning effort, lashed out Tuesday, attacking the County Council President, local ‘tea party’ activists and just about anyone in earshot. The county government has already spent more than $5,600 on legal fees in the case, according to county officials, and a memo calculated potential additional county legal bills of $45,000 if the case went to trial as scheduled on 7/15/13, and a likely appeal of any Circuit Court decision. Settling the case now would save those costs. And the settlement would restore the status quo of the property, located on Carpenters Point road in Perryville, to the same as it was before the Amigos downzoned it on their own initiative. But Broomell (R-4) did not go down without a fight, reading a statement at both a morning worksession and evening Council meeting in Elkton attacking the settlement of the court case. And she played to an evening crowd [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State PSC Approves Sale of Most Cecil County Water, Sewer Plants to Private Artesian Firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Public Service Commission has approved the sale of most Cecil County water and sewage treatment plants to the private Artesian firm, rejecting arguments by the Appleton Regional Community Alliance (ARCA) that has battled against the sale for over three years. In an order dated 8/31/11, the PSC ruled that Artesian had “the financial, technical, and managerial resources and qualifications to operate and maintain the water system in Elkton West and in the Elkton West Extended area in Cecil County, Maryland.” Furthermore, Artesian demonstrated, with a detailed analysis by the Maryland Department of the Environment, that the company has significant water resources to more than meet the needs of the area for which the county granted Artesian a franchise, the PSC said. “In addition to its financial, technical and managerial fitness, the Applicants have demonstrated the ability to assure the availability of adequate and reliable water supplies for the foreseeable future from a variety of sources, including Susquehanna River sources that are currently unavailable to the County,” the PSC stated. And the regulatory panel also rejected claims by ARCA that the sale would impair the county’s ability to comply with state and federal anti-pollution mandates for its other operations. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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