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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1993
Page
4
Community voices clash over shifting funds as Visual and Performing Arts and Outdoor Education face cuts while new demands surface. The school board weighs pay raises of 15.75 percent and a budget $500 000 higher than the superintendent’s proposal, with commissioners set for final decision.
Joel Caplan argues Urbana should not host an off track betting parlor near the Cracked Claw restaurant noting local schools and family life would suffer and questioning who benefits. He contends OTB would conflict with a bucolic lifestyle and broad community planning in Frederick County Urbana.
The piece satirizes a Clinton message about taxes and sacrifice. It argues Congress and the President will shift tax burdens onto the middle class and wealthy while excluding the underground workforce and the truly poor. The author mocks political rhetoric and questions honesty and bought influence.
Mike Royko argues that Clinton's tax plan shifts funds with little clear gain and urges the press to track every taxpayer nickel. He portrays the deficit fix as hollow, notes the political impact on upper and middle classes, and calls for hard accounting over Washington gossip.
Yesterday the Board of Aldermen promoted Reno C. Six to lieutenant and Daniel E. Swomley to sergeant in the Frederick City Police Department by a unanimous vote after Mayor Lloyd C. Culler presented the Acting Police Chief Arthur C. Poulsen's recommendations. County commissioners published a detailed Frederick County budget for 1943 totaling 854 444 43 dollars, while state health authorities refer the Ballenger Creek sewer grant and county water and sewer plan to the Attorney General for review. Black History Week activities at East Frederick Elementary featured biographies, artifacts, masks, and a papier-mache life figure.
In Frederick January 21 The Frederick Post urged PMO and several agencies to use volunteers as interpreters for deaf detainees. The author, a certified RID interpreter, warns volunteer interpreters risk due process rights, ethics breaches, and potential miscarriages in legal cases, urging professional interpretation standards be maintained.
DEJABARBARA SMULLEN from Charles Town West Virginia writes of shock and sorrow over the loss suffered by the Koontz family and Ms Brandon. The writer pleads against further humiliation in court and urges Kathy Wetzel to set aside bitterness and accept the consequences with grace.
A reader letter in The Nears from Shirley Wetzel accuses Kathy Brandon of insensitivity after a fatal accident in front of North Frederck Elementary School. The writer condemns the comparison of Wetzel’s charges with the victims’ families and calls the remark selfish.
Patricia King expresses mixed feelings about a letter and cartoon in The Fredericks News-Post dated January 28 on abortion. She hopes a published cartoon she sent will convey her view, echoing the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words.
Kathy Valenti of Walkersville describes a cycle of court hearings in Frederick County Circuit Court over child support. She says the father has been ordered to pay or serve a six month detention, yet remains unemployed and unable to enforce the sentence due to trial rights. She lists lost work time, rising costs, and a fractured family as the toll of the system. She calls for an end to the distress and a path to stability for her five children.
A Thurmont resident William B. Bruchey defends a long standing road through Utica Lewistown area against columnist Fran Robinson. He warns against erasing local beauty for development urging preservation for future generations in Frederick County Maryland.
The Frederick News-Post invites readers to send letters to the editor including a signed name address and telephone number. Do not publish street addresses. Contact options include mailing to 200 Patrick St Frederick MD 21705 or fax number 682 8233.
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