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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1994
Page
6
Three of five commissioners plan to leave next month and kill any proposal to grant a $150,000 pay raise to a select county employee group. The piece argues a lame duck board should not set policy or approve raises and urges keeping government orderly until new officials take over.
Lawrence A Tommy Dorsey Jr of Woodsboro reflects on 24 years serving Frederick County as State's Attorney and Deputy State's Attorney. He thanks voters, colleagues, and campaign supporters, congratulates Scott Rolle, and cites President Kennedy and UVA motto. He notes future plans and church duties amid campaign acknowledgments.
A satirical look at Washington power players as pit bulls chase a stalled Edsel of governance. The piece warns voters to watch Republican messaging on TV for signs of progress or political payback, focusing on Newt Gingrich as a central figure and the media’s role in shaping perception.
Martin Schram surveys GOP infighting and shifting strategies as Newt Gingrich faces a kinder gentler majority bid while Dole Gramm duel for Senate leadership and Alfonso D Amato eyes the Whitewater probe. He warns the GOP must change tactics overnight or risk alienating voters.
U S Army Pfc George W Roberts was due at Fort Meade on furlough before returning to his Frederick home after 53 months overseas in the Asiatic Pacific theater. Eskay Packing hosted the Independent Retail Food Distributors of Frederick County at the Frederick YMCA where 12 door prizes were awarded after viewing Romance and Meats. Rebecca Koontz won the grand prize ham. Nearly 100 attended a Women of the Moose dinner and dance at Hotel Frederick, organized by Mary Baker and others with Clark Sheetenhelm’s orchestra. A Greyhound terminal spokesman declined comment on possible effects of a nationwide bus strike on Frederick commuters. County commissioners appointed William H duBell as coordinator to pursue housing funds for low and moderate income families. Clarence Fisher and others set a new 60 hour Monopoly elevator record at the Holiday Inn. Piano students prepared for a Frederick Piano Teachers Association festival at the Church of the Brethren.
The letter cites two Frederick Post stories on rising gasoline prices with wholesale spikes of 8 to 9 cents in two weeks. A local station saw price jumps from 113.9 to 125.9 and crude trades near 18.93 a barrel. The writer blames winter cleaner gasoline costs and pipeline breaks from Houston floods, urging political action and accountability.
David G. Fay argues the East Street extension should remain a city scale connector rather than a broad ramp to I-70. He envisions keeping the post office area intact and channeling growth as a high tech commercial corridor behind FSK Mail, with a wider main road instead of widening suburbia. He contends Monrovia ends retail activity at Patrick Street and proposes directing funds to redevelopment rather than expansive sprawl.
Stephen OPhilips and John Hagerhorst advocate transforming vacant land south of Patrick Street into arts infrastructure. They envision satellite museums, a potential arts institute, and a broader interstate extension to East Street. The pair urge embracing landscape architecture terms and reference Olmstead as a master planner.
A reader criticizes a front page piece on the Monocacy River study for omitting the word landscape in landscape architecture. The letter emphasizes the profession's identity, notes landscape architecture as a 3,000 year old art and science, and cites Frederick Law Olmstead as coining the term in the 1850s.
TOM FAULK argues that government regulation protects health and welfare, warning Republicans and others against dismantling controls. He asks readers to consider consequences like bad ice cream, toxic exposure, air and water pollution, and dangerous corporate greed if oversight vanished.
The Frederick News-Post invites letters including name address and phone for verification. Due to high volume some letters may not be published and others edited for space or taste. Poetry religious verse or letters to others are not published.
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