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		<title>Joyce Bowlsbey, Former Charter Panel Chair, Named to Cecil County Council; Del. Smigiel Files Suit against County Exec Moore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joyce Bowlsbey, a longtime community volunteer who chaired the citizens’ panel that drafted the Cecil County Charter approved by voters in 2010, was appointed to the vacant District 2 County Council seat Tuesday by County Executive Tari Moore. But Del. Michael Smigiel, whose political allies lost majority control of the Council in the aftermath of the November election, filed a lawsuit seeking to block the appointment—which he called a “coup.” Moore announced the appointment of Bowlsbey early Tuesday morning, shortly before a scheduled County Council worksession. Bowlsbey will serve the remaining two years of Moore’s term in the Council seat, which Moore vacated when she was sworn in as County Executive on 12/3/12. “Joyce’s qualifications, experience and passion made her an outstanding candidate for this position,” Moore said. “She is an excellent listener who does her homework on the issues. She makes good decisions based on sound reasoning and common sense. She reaches out to build consensus and works toward positive solutions,” Moore added. In accepting the appointment, Bowlsbey said she believed that “no Council member should have their own political agenda but instead we should all work together to move Cecil County forward.” She said she had “no hidden [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Council Dist. 1: The Doc and The Disoriented</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the first public political sighting of Pamela Bailey, who has been incognito since she won the early April primary to become the Democratic candidate for the District 1 Cecil County Council seat, when she showed up in Elkton Tuesday night at a candidates’ forum. Some Democrats may have wished she stayed home. Bailey, a secretary at the county’s School of Technology who also ran for the seat and lost four years ago, showed minimal knowledge of the current fight over “tiers” land use policies mandated by state legislation, SB236, and mis-stated the terms of a south county ambulance proposal that she claimed as her signature “behind the scenes” work effort on county policy issues. Her opponent, Dr. Alan McCarthy, a veterinarian and businessman who defeated incumbent James Mullin in the Republican primary by a wide margin, outlined his business experience and advocated completion of infrastructure in the county’s growth corridor, a stand-up-and-fight stance against the state’s land use mandates, and creation of a ‘business-friendly’ environment to bring jobs and an expanded economic base to the county. The candidates’ forum, sponsored by the Cecil County Patriots, the local ‘tea party’ group, drew questions from an audience of about 100 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiers, Tears and Taunts: Cecil County Commish Blasted on &#8220;Tier&#8221; Maps; Broomell Bashes Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were tears from farm families fearful of losing their land legacy, taunts from property rights advocates and angry outbursts by Cecil County Commissioner Diana Broomell against her critics and a fellow commissioner, as an overflow crowd jammed a public hearing in Elkton Tuesday night on a proposed ‘tier” land preservation map endorsed by a three-vote majority of the Commissioners. The comments were spirited and overwhelmingly against the proposal. But at one point the verbiage spilled over into an attack by Broomell (R-4) against members of the Cecil County Patriots, the local “tea party” group that has been outspoken against the plan, and yet another attack by Broomell on her fellow county commissioner, Robert Hodge (R-5). Broomell was a prime architect of the so-called “Draft 4” version of the “tier” maps that are being drawn under directives from new state legislation designed to control land development as part of Chesapeake Bay clean-up efforts. But the core of the local controversy that played out at the public hearing was whether the “Draft 4” map puts too much privately-owned land into a no-growth category, well beyond what the county’s relatively new Comprehensive Plan called for. It was that “Draft 4” map that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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