https://chestertownspy.org Nonpartisan and Education-based News for Chestertown Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:36:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/op-ed-anything-goes-but-pete-hegseth-may-go-first-by-aubrey-sarvis/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/op-ed-anything-goes-but-pete-hegseth-may-go-first-by-aubrey-sarvis/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:49:10 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183865 Springtime in Trump’s Washington is a mad, mad, mad world, one without humor, subtlety, or joy.  Washington is now a dangerous and chaotic place to work and live. Just ask the senator from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, who has been among the few Republican senators with the courage to respectfully disagree with President Trump and vote […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/op-ed-anything-goes-but-pete-hegseth-may-go-first-by-aubrey-sarvis/feed/ 5 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/03/op-ed-mayor-and-council-trust-in-you-has-evaporated-by-robert-miller/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/03/op-ed-mayor-and-council-trust-in-you-has-evaporated-by-robert-miller/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:13 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182743 The re-introduction of Chestertown Resolution 06-2023 is more than strange. The resolution is more insult after injury on the citizens of Chestertown inflicted by the Mayor and Council This is the same resolution Mayor David Foster and council members Tom Herz, Jose Medrano and Meghan Efland passed in bad faith in November 2023 to create […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/03/op-ed-mayor-and-council-trust-in-you-has-evaporated-by-robert-miller/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/28/l-kent-county-and-a-serious-healthcare-hit-by-tom-timberman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/28/l-kent-county-and-a-serious-healthcare-hit-by-tom-timberman/#comments Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:00:19 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182737 This article focuses on Kent County, but the possibly very damaging Federal  legislation now being considered, if passed, will affect every US county, particularly those in rural areas. On 2/24/25, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution ( H Con Res 14, 119th Congress) that serves as their blueprint for […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/28/l-kent-county-and-a-serious-healthcare-hit-by-tom-timberman/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/19/letter-to-the-editor-making-american-great-again/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/19/letter-to-the-editor-making-american-great-again/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:04 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182569 The President and his henchmen, full of themselves, began implementing  their agenda at breakneck speed on a freezing January afternoon to install, pardon, and enrich their devoted loyalists. The White House assured the American people their clever and smart disrupters were agents of change and among the very best in our country.  They also promised […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/19/letter-to-the-editor-making-american-great-again/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/12/marylands-fiscal-apocalypse-by-clayton-a-mitchell-sr/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/12/marylands-fiscal-apocalypse-by-clayton-a-mitchell-sr/#comments Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:33:29 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/12/marylands-fiscal-apocalypse-by-clayton-a-mitchell-sr/ Maryland’s State Budget is teetering on the brink of an unprecedented financial collapse. The refusal to address formula-driven mandatory and entitlement spending threatens to thrust the state into a cycle of automatic “runaway” deficits, culminating in a financial “Extinction Level Event” in the near future. Despite the gravity of this crisis, political leaders have shied […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/12/marylands-fiscal-apocalypse-by-clayton-a-mitchell-sr/feed/ 6 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/09/moores-delicate-balance-as-the-session-gets-under-way/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/09/moores-delicate-balance-as-the-session-gets-under-way/#respond Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:00:04 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/09/moores-delicate-balance-as-the-session-gets-under-way/ Gov. Wes Moore (D) made the scene across Annapolis Wednesday, as tradition dictates for governors on the opening day of the General Assembly session. He started the day at a forum sponsored by The Daily Record, presided over a meeting of the Board of Public Works, visited both chambers of the legislature for their inaugural […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/09/moores-delicate-balance-as-the-session-gets-under-way/feed/ 0