Carroll Roy Bond’s Oct. 29 sentence on three counts of illegal slot machine possession and operation may not seem like a lot when you consider he was charged with 110 counts.
But the prosecutor on the case says the result was just right. (more…)
He was an interested party, and he was supporting a friend in court on a traffic charge.
Those are the reasons offered by John Vontran to explain why he was present during Carroll “Roy” Bond’s illegal slot machine trial yesterday. (more…)
In The Graduate, Mr. McQuire imparted one word of advice to Ben: Plastics.
“There’s a great future in plastics,” McQuire says.
If that conversation were held today, McQuire might use two words: Vending machines. (more…)
Katie Brown, director of the Baltimore County Board of Elections, has a piece of advice for Election Day: “Vote between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.”
Brown and elections officials are expecting voter turnout to hit 85 percent for the Nov. 4 election. Most voters are likely to show up at the polls in the morning, before work, or in the evening, as people make their way home. (more…)
State Sen. Norman Stone wants four more years.
Stone, 73, plans to run for what political observers say would be an unprecedented 11th term. He recently held an event at which he raised an estimated $40,000 for his re-election bid.
Stone, first elected to the Senate in 1966, is the longest serving member of the state Senate. He also served one term in the House of Delegates just before he was elected to the Senate. (more…)
Baltimore County government appears to be the one calm spot in a storm of state and local government deficits.
Several counties and Baltimore City are combating projected deficits with furloughs and hiring freezes. But County Executive Jim Smith says such moves will not be necessary for this budget year or for the next which begins July 1.
“I have been going around to our employees and telling them that because they have been reading about what’s going on every place else,” Smith said. “They have been reading about what is going on in . … I want them concentrating on the good work that they do for Baltimore County.”
Here’s a little of what county employees have been seeing: (more…)
County Republicans and two Democratic clubs in Baltimore County have one thing in common - opposition to the referendum that would authorize video slot machines in Maryland.
Members the the Central Baltimore County Democratic Club and the Young Democrats of Baltimore County held a debate on slots in Towson on Oct. 14. Afterward, they voted 57 percent to 34 percent to oppose the expansion of gambling in Maryland. (more…)
A story about the confirmation of Dr. Gregory Branch to the position of Baltimore County health officer can be found here.
A Towson author who is running a scaled-down presidential campaign now has a mock news video courtesy of an unknown fan.
Blaine Taylor, who is running in Maryland, is the star of a video made on a Web site that allows anyone to put themselves or friends into a mock-news report. Currently, he is only on the ballot in Maryland. (more…)
Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, an education activist, is trying to keep attention focused on the need for air conditioning in more than half of the county’s schools.
The school system is currently examining the costs of adding to or upgrading air conditioning in all county schools. That report is expected to be completed next month.
In the meantime, Taylor-Mitchell, a member of the school system’s Central Area Advisory Council, has taken her case to the County Council. On Oct. 6, she urged the council to look at the costs of funding the upgrades through county bonds.