Imagine a track race. The contestants are lined up, ready to give it their all. When the gun goes off, they take off running, except for the Black man; someone has put heavy weights on his ankles. He struggles to run as the others pull farther and farther ahead. As the other contestants reach the home stretch, a race official finally stops the race and points out that the Black man has been wrongly and unfairly handicapped. The race officials take the weights off the Black man’s ankles, pa...
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(River Hill) Money Makes the World Go ‘Round
I updated this piece on October 24.
In an election year, scrutiny of campaign finance reports is nothing new. People want to know who is donating cash and gifts to candidates and why. This year, a small subset of Howard County residents, still upset about last year's school redistricting process, are convinced that greedy real estate developers are pumping cash into Board of Education campaigns in exchange for influence. The conspiracy theory is that the $650 donated by Howard Hughes is b...
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District 4: Say No to Sezin Palmer (Part 3)
Sezin Palmer is an unsuitable candidate to represent District 4 on the Board of Education in Howard County. This is the final post in a multi-part series discussing the reasons why.
In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I presented Sezin’s own words and behaviors as evidence that she is not the benevolent, non-partisan candidate she makes herself out to be. This evidence revealed her to be a right-wing, conservative candidate, fueled by anti-redistricting senti...
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District 4: Say No to Sezin Palmer (Part 2)
Sezin Palmer is an unsuitable candidate to represent District 4 on the Board of Education in Howard County. This is a multi-part series discussing the reasons why. See Part 3 here.
I recently saw a home in District 4 with several signs in the front yard. Signs for “Hate Has No Home Here,” Black Lives Matter, a rainbow flag, Joe Biden... and one for Sezin Palmer. This baffling incongruity demonstrates how successful Sezin is in misrepresenting herself to heavily Democratic and liberal Distr...
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District 4: Say No to Sezin Palmer (Part 1)
Sezin Palmer is an unsuitable candidate to represent District 4 on the Board of Education in Howard County. This is a multi-part series discussing the reasons why. See Part 2 here.
I don’t know about you, but I had never heard of Sezin Palmer until last fall, when she and many other Howard County residents had a collective aneurysm over the idea of redistricting to better integrate our schools by socioeconomic status.
The first time I saw her name was shortly after Howard County Public ...
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