Posts belonging to Category 'Maryland'
July 23, 2010 | Posted by BJH
Code Red Heat Alert in Baltimore City for Friday and Saturday. Cooling centers are open in the city. Call 311 for locations.
Temperatures 95+ on Friday. 100+ on Saturday. Highs of 103-106 possible on Saturday. Oppressively high humidity. Heat index temps 95 to 105 on Friday, and up to 110 on Saturday. That’s right, the heat [...]
Categories: Baltimore, Health, Life, Maryland, Nature, News | 
Tags: Baltimore County, Eastern Shore, Heat, Summer, Weather | 
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July 19, 2010 | Posted by BJH
And on . . . and on . . . and on . . . See Frank’s Weather Blog.
Pass the ice water, and the Gatoraide, and please help your elderly neighbors.
Categories: Life, Maryland | Tags: Summer, Weather | No Comments »
July 2, 2010 | Posted by BJH
We’re looking forward to a classic July 4 weekend here in Ocean City, Maryland — nothing but sunshine and blue skies.
The heat wave broke earlier this week. Friday, we’re enjoying a sunny and mild morning, about 73 degrees right now. High Friday will be about 78. I imagine traffic will be heavy this afternoon and [...]
Categories: Maryland, OCEAN CITY, Travel | Tags: Beach, Boardwalk, Eastern Shore, Fourth of July, July 4, Ocean City Maryland, Ocean City MD, Resorts, Summer | No Comments »
June 28, 2010 | Posted by BJH
Democracy is easy. All you need for democracy is:
1) Voters
2) Candidates
That’s all, folks. Voters + Candidates = Democracy. Everything else — political parties, opinion polls, advertising — is froth.
Pretty simple, right? So what is the state of democracy in Maryland, and in the U.S. generally?
We have enough voters to make it work.
Sometimes turnout is disappointingly [...]
Categories: Democracy, Maryland, Politics | Tags: Election 2010 | 1 Comment »
June 25, 2010 | Posted by BJH
Thousands of Americans will be going to beaches Saturday to say “No” to offshore oil drilling, and “Yes” to clean energy. Clean energy in our lifetime, please! Clean energy now! People will link hands on the beach in a demonstration of solidarity to protect the coastline.
In Maryland, “Hands Across the Sand” will be at Ocean [...]
Categories: Maryland, News, OCEAN CITY, Politics, Travel | Tags: Beach, Environment, Ocean City Maryland, Ocean City MD, Offshore drilling, Oil, Oil spill, Sand | No Comments »
June 23, 2010 | Posted by BJH
Baltimore has announced a CODE RED heat alert for today, Wednesday, June 23, and Thursday, June 24, with high temperatures in the 90s. Heat index near 100 today in Baltimore, and 100 to 105 on Thursday.
Heat throughout Maryland will be dangerously hot and humid. Would you believe 96 in Hancock, in Western Maryland? Baltimore has [...]
Categories: Baltimore, Life, Maryland, Nature, News, OCEAN CITY | Tags: Eastern Shore, Storms, Summer, Weather | No Comments »
June 22, 2010 | Posted by BJH
Since when do U.S. generals give interviews to Rolling Stone?
Double-dip recession? There was never any real question of that. You can see bigger storm clouds on the horizon. Of course, they could blow over. You never know.
BP lies. So which big corporation can you trust?
What about government? Everyone turns to the federal government. But what [...]
Categories: Business, Democracy, Economy, Leadership, Maryland, OCEAN CITY, Politics, Work | Tags: Barack Obama, Election 2010, Recession, Summer | No Comments »
June 18, 2010 | Posted by BJH
We’re going to make America first in the future, not just the past.”
There it is. Write it down. Send it to the printer. Barack Obama said it today, in Ohio. “We’re going to make America first in the future, not just the past.” You can put that on your bumper sticker.
“Make America Great In The [...]
Categories: Democracy, Economy, Leadership, Maryland, News, Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2010, Martin O'Malley | No Comments »
May 30, 2010 | Posted by BJH
Here we have two crowd-pleasing statues on the Ocean City Boardwalk. People stop to photograph the soldier, who’s standing at attention with an American flag, and Ms. Liberty, holding a small bouquet of flowers. They’re standing maybe 50 feet apart on the Boardwalk at North Division Street, very near the statues at the Firefighters memorial. [...]
Categories: Maryland, OCEAN CITY, Travel | Tags: Art, Beach, Boardwalk, Memorial Day, Ocean City Maryland, Ocean City MD, Photos, Resorts | No Comments »
May 24, 2010 | Posted by BJH
Frank Kratovil, Maryland’s District 1 congressman, is committed to keeping constituents informed about how busy he is, working for us on Capitol Hill.
Today’s mail brings another of Rep. Kratovil’s increasingly frequent “legislative updates.” This is the second legislative update during the month of May. Do you think there’s an election coming up?
The first May update [...]
Categories: Democracy, Maryland, Politics | Tags: Congress, Eastern Shore, Election 2010, Frank Kratovil | 1 Comment »
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