News Analysis The Cecil County Council has been tied up in knots— some might say a “Five Shades of Grey” political bondage—by recent take-colleagues-as-prisoners attacks by Cecil County Councilor Diana Broomell (R-4), full of salacious verbiage with little if any factual substantiation on issues as unrelated as horses and ethics. Not since the 2011-2012...
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Tags: Alan McCarthy, campaign finance, cecil county, Cecil Times, County Council, county executive, Diana Broomell, election, ethics, Fair Hill, fifty shades of grey, horse, Joyce Bowlsbey, Michael Dunn, Politics, porn, Robert Hodge
Posted in Business, campaign finance, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Cecil Whig, county commissioner, Elections, politics, Uncategorized | 20 Comments »
A Cecil Times Special Report Cecil County’s animal control contractor, A Buddy for Life, Inc., has admitted it omitted details of a fatal attack by one of its ‘foster’ dogs in a required report to county officials, while a state inquiry into the group continues and new financial data indicates taxpayers are paying caviar...
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Tags: ACCOC, Animal Care and Control Oversight Commission, animal control, bite, Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, Brittany, buddies, Buddy for Life, cat, caviar, cecil county, Cecil Times, County Council, dog, Jenn Callahan, Lyn Yelton, Mindy Carletti, oversight, Robert Hodge, taxpayer, Vet boatd, vicious
Posted in Business, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, Michael Smigiel, politics, real estate, Uncategorized | 9 Comments »
A tempest over Cecil County’s animal control ordinance, and an attempt by Councilor Alan McCarthy (R-1) to change two provisions as an amendment to legislation proposed by the county executive, has highlighted a test of legal powers between the two branches of county government. But under pressure from the county administration, McCarthy said Friday...
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Tags: Alan McCarthy, amendment, animal control, animal ordinance, balance of power, cecil county, charter, charter government, County Council, county executive, Diana Broomell, dogs, hobby kennel, Jason Allison, Robert Hodge, strays, Tari Moore
Posted in cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Elections, Elkton, politics, real estate, Republicans, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
It must have been a political version of the “polar vortex,” that has turned the weather topsy turvey lately, when Cecil County Council President Robert Hodge (R-5) sided with his two usual foes on the Council Tuesday in opposing any pay raise in Fiscal 2015 for whatever individual is elected sheriff in this year’s...
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Tags: "Barry Janney", Alan McCarthy, budget, candidates, Cecil Times, cedcil county, County Council, county executive, detention center, Diana Broomell, election, Joyce Bowlsbey, Michael Dunn, pay, Politics, Robert Hodge, salary, Sheriff, Tari Moore
Posted in Barry Janney, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, Chris Sutton, county commissioner, Elections, Elkton, politics, Robert Hodge, Sheriff's Department, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
A new proposed “strategic plan” for Cecil County’s future, mandated by the new county Charter, sets five priorities for the county’s next five years but at least in its draft form, it is long on lofty rhetoric and short on concrete steps on how to achieve its goals. The proposal–drafted by a panel of...
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Tags: broadband, cecil county, charter, charter government, county commissioner, County Council, county executive, education, fiscal responsibility, goals, internet, Robert Hodge, SPAN, strategic plan, Tari Moore
Posted in Business, cecil county, cecil county government, Cecil Government, Cecil Times, county commissioner, education, Elkton, politics, Robert Hodge, Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
