It’s time to play the music. … It’s time to light the lights. … It’s time for my kids to meet one of my childhood favorites — the Muppets. Yes, it’s that time of year, the holiday movie season, when fun family flicks hit the big screens as the days turn cold and short...
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It Did My Heart Good … By Mike Watkins It had been a draining week rolling the boulder of new urbanism up the hill of mediocrity, and just as I felt it pause as if to start to roll back toward me, I looked around. It was a perfect night in Kentlands, so I...
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Let’s Get Serious About Gaithersburg Business Development To the Editor: I am extremely disappointed with our Mayor, City Council and City Manager Jones for their stated push for economic development. What are they thinking? The Knapp contract is at the top of my list of concerns — I have questioned this hire from the...
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Most moms and dads are all too familiar with the childhood malady that I like to call “I-want-itis.” “I want this” and “I want that” becomes the clattery chorus immediately upon entering … well, any type of store. When they were little, my kids had a healthy dose of this ailment. They also had...
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“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson The critical importance of Egypt to American national security has apparently led us to support Hosni Mubarak for a long time. Sources say Mubarak’s Egypt has played a key...
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“Libraries Matter” — No More Cuts To the Editor: the county executive, Leggett, held an open forum at the regional government offices in Germantown to present the details of the county’s financial budget and the problems he and his administration are facing due to the shortfall in revenue during the...
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The Tough 2010 Without a doubt, the most difficult event of the year for us was the untimely passing of former Assistant City Manager Fred Felton. During his 19 years of service, Fred had an enormous impact on the city — how we deliver services, how we enforce code, how we work with Annapolis...
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In my entire life, I’ve fibbed dozens of times — usually to be polite or to get out of attending some mind-numbing social event — but I’ve only told one really big lie. … Are you on the edge of your seat? Waiting to see what big lie I told? Shocked that I’m ready...
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Just in case anyone was thinking that Internet access at public libraries is some kind of frivolity … “There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.” — Andrew Carnegie I am a...
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Reforestation Concerns To the Editor: I am sending in my response to your article on the planting of trees at the end of Diamond Drive in West Riding. In addition to things already mentioned by JoAnn Schimke, our homeowners’ association president, there is the importance of having a field and forest that was...
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