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/2025/02/01/the-political-is-personal-reflections-on-dei/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/01/the-political-is-personal-reflections-on-dei/#comments Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:00:38 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/01/the-political-is-personal-reflections-on-dei/ As the women’s movement was unfolding in the late 1960s, all across the country women gathered in small, informal groups called consciousness raising (CR) groups—conversations that helped us identify the societal origins of problems we were facing in our individual lives. Domestic violence, rape, job discrimination, illegal abortion, the lack of birth control—you name it: […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/01/the-political-is-personal-reflections-on-dei/feed/ 5 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/30/new-report-reveals-value-of-resource-conservation-for-shore-businesses-by-john-horner/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/30/new-report-reveals-value-of-resource-conservation-for-shore-businesses-by-john-horner/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:37:51 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/30/new-report-reveals-value-of-resource-conservation-for-shore-businesses-by-john-horner/ I consider it a privilege to live and work in a place so many Marylanders associate with vacations, retirement, recreation, and quiet retreats. But as good as our parks, rivers, beaches, and charming towns are for those very activities—the Eastern Shore is equally a place of everyday living and hard honest work, schools and small […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/30/new-report-reveals-value-of-resource-conservation-for-shore-businesses-by-john-horner/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/27/history-of-us-territorial-acquisitions-by-tom-timberman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/27/history-of-us-territorial-acquisitions-by-tom-timberman/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:00:42 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182082 President Trump’s second Administration has begun. And one of his most memorable goals mentioned during the 2024 Campaign, is to expand the geographic size of the United States.  The locations Mr. Trump identified as potential additions are: the Panama Canal Zone, Greenland and Canada (as 51st state). The last strikes me as highly unlikely, but […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/27/history-of-us-territorial-acquisitions-by-tom-timberman/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/17/presidential-pasts-and-an-impending-future-by-steve-parks/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/17/presidential-pasts-and-an-impending-future-by-steve-parks/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:00:47 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181914 Former president and now president-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated again – this time to a non-consecutive second term. (The first since Grover Cleveland, elected in 1885 and 1893.) Although I was disappointed, to say the least, about his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November, it is clear that Trump was elected fair […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/17/presidential-pasts-and-an-impending-future-by-steve-parks/feed/ 0 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 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/20/electric-workboats-on-the-chesapeake-by-rob-etgen/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/20/electric-workboats-on-the-chesapeake-by-rob-etgen/#comments Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:30:29 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181529 I love electric cars. I’ve owned two and have fallen hard, not just for environmental reasons, but more so because they are fast, silent, and virtually maintenance free. And don’t forget that you do not put gas in them! Why not boats? And why not workboats on the Chesapeake? I have taken the last half […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/20/electric-workboats-on-the-chesapeake-by-rob-etgen/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/19/reflections-on-cabinet-choices-by-j-t-smith/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/19/reflections-on-cabinet-choices-by-j-t-smith/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:29 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180947 Last week President-elect Trump proved his wish to be a “disrupter” by announcing several capricious and extraordinary choices for some of the most important posts in his cabinet. They included Robert F Kennedy Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS); Peter Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense; and Matt Gaetz to […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/19/reflections-on-cabinet-choices-by-j-t-smith/feed/ 2 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/02/balancing-growth-and-green-chestertowns-greenbelt-plan-faces-a-solar-challenge-by-steve-kline/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/02/balancing-growth-and-green-chestertowns-greenbelt-plan-faces-a-solar-challenge-by-steve-kline/#comments Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:20:50 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/02/balancing-growth-and-green-chestertowns-greenbelt-plan-faces-a-solar-challenge-by-steve-kline/ My love for the Eastern Shore started in Chestertown. I used to visit each fall for the Chestertown Wildlife Art Festival and it was one of my favorite weekends of the year. Big groups of migrating Canada geese would hang in the air, as would that first real bite of autumn chill. The magic of […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/11/02/balancing-growth-and-green-chestertowns-greenbelt-plan-faces-a-solar-challenge-by-steve-kline/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/17/a-modest-proposal-seven-obvious-steps-by-gren-whitman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/17/a-modest-proposal-seven-obvious-steps-by-gren-whitman/#comments Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:00:58 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180040 You’re a former one-term president who’s been indicted by diverse federal and state prosecutors for — ah, let’s see — inciting an insurrection at the Capitol, or perhaps stealing classified documents, or maybe attempting to subvert an election, or possibly paying off a porn star, or perchance falsifying business records, or mayhap sexually attacking a […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/17/a-modest-proposal-seven-obvious-steps-by-gren-whitman/feed/ 4 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/09/20/striking-out-at-camden-how-three-bad-seasons-sent-a-once-proud-franchise-into-a-decade-long-tailspin/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/09/20/striking-out-at-camden-how-three-bad-seasons-sent-a-once-proud-franchise-into-a-decade-long-tailspin/#respond Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:07:06 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/09/20/striking-out-at-camden-how-three-bad-seasons-sent-a-once-proud-franchise-into-a-decade-long-tailspin/ The 1998–2000 Orioles were one of the more disappointing teams of modern times. From owner Peter Angelos’s ham-fisted and wrongheaded ownership to Mike Mussina’s inevitable exit, we saw how a team loses 14 straight seasons. How does it start? One season at a time… The cynical among us say that the roots of the 1998 […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/09/20/striking-out-at-camden-how-three-bad-seasons-sent-a-once-proud-franchise-into-a-decade-long-tailspin/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/22/sunset-for-sea-stars-by-rob-etgen/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/22/sunset-for-sea-stars-by-rob-etgen/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:21:54 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=178765 On our annual visit to my wife’s family farm on the Maine coast, we tend to do nearly the same set of activities every year. Hike the “Blue Hill” trail. Kayak to the Deere Isle Bridge and “Sand Dollar Beach.” Visit Bar Harbor. Eat lobsters purchased from a local waterman. Hike to Barred Island across […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/22/sunset-for-sea-stars-by-rob-etgen/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/09/were-all-stocked-up-on-crazies-by-maria-grant/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/09/were-all-stocked-up-on-crazies-by-maria-grant/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:45:54 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/09/were-all-stocked-up-on-crazies-by-maria-grant/ One of my favorite lines from Melvin Udall, aka Jack Nicolson, in the film As Good as It Gets is,” Go sell crazy somewhere else; we’re all stocked up.”  I’ve been thinking about that line a lot lately. Here’s why. Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has touted bizarre anti-vax theories, claimed that CIA agents were […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/09/were-all-stocked-up-on-crazies-by-maria-grant/feed/ 2 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/02/what-difference-does-it-make-by-maria-grant/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/02/what-difference-does-it-make-by-maria-grant/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:17:21 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/02/what-difference-does-it-make-by-maria-grant/ This week Donald Trump spoke at a National Association of Black Journalists Conference and said that Kamala Harris used to be Indian and now she says she’s Black. He went on to question, “So is she Indian or is she Black?” What I want to know is what difference does it make?  Trump, a man […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/08/02/what-difference-does-it-make-by-maria-grant/feed/ 9 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/15/hypocrisy-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-america-by-maria-grant/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/15/hypocrisy-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-america-by-maria-grant/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:00:35 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/14/hypocrisy-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-america-by-maria-grant/ Call me crazy, but I don’t get why people who say incredibly damning things about a candidate then turn around and support him. Not only support him but campaign to be his vice president. Here are some comments from Trump’s current VP contenders. Marco Rubio. “He runs on this idea that he is fighting for […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/15/hypocrisy-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-america-by-maria-grant/feed/ 4 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/10/help-wanted-a-fit-commander-by-aubrey-sarvis/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/10/help-wanted-a-fit-commander-by-aubrey-sarvis/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:00:52 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=177722 A debate is raging within the Democratic Party about whether President Biden has the mental acuity to defeat former President Trump in the upcoming election and be President of the United States for another four years.  Of course the same concerns should be raging within the Republican Party about their presumptive nominee former President Trump. […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/07/10/help-wanted-a-fit-commander-by-aubrey-sarvis/feed/ 2