Mommy and Daddy are fighting about money again. Daddy lost his job because of the pandemic, and they must figure out how to live only on Mommy's income. Mommy wants to stop buying fresh produce for home-cooked meals and switch to Hungry-Man TV dinners to save money. Daddy thinks they should invest some money into creating a backyard garden so they can grow their own produce instead. Mommy thinks that idea is ridiculous, because in times like these, they should be saving money, not spending ...
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Hall of Shame – May 15, 2020
This was quite a week at Howard County Progress Report, as my piece published Monday that exposed BOE D3 candidate Gian Alfeo’s hateful Facebook postings reached over 7.1k views, caught the attention of the Howard County Muslim Council and The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and resulted in Mr. Alfeo withdrawing from the race, as reported by the Baltimore Sun yesterday.
As I read the Baltimore Sun article, I became confused toward the end, when they quoted the Howard County...
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Analysis of Scott E’s D2 BOE Debate
*** May 28, 2020: This post originally stated that Larry Pretlow is not a member of the Stevens Forest Elementary School PTA. That is not accurate, and I have updated the post with the correct information. ***
At long last, I made it through the last of Scott Ewart's online debates for Howard County Board of Education candidates. Over the weekend, he held the final debate, for District 2. Is anybody else exhausted?
(ICYMI: my analyses of the debates for districts 3, 4, and 5.)
Havin...
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Analysis of Scott E’s D3 BOE Debate
On Friday evening, Scott Ewart held the third in his series of online debates for Howard County Board of Education candidates, this time for District 3. Of the three candidates in District 3, one is head-and-shoulders above the rest (spoiler: it’s Jolene Mosley), but I’ll cover all of them anyway.
Tom Heffner
Tom Heffner is a mystery to me. His website states that he has experience solving hard problems and innovating. When it comes to the issues, he has some fleshed-out ideas on his we...
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Hall of Shame – May 10, 2020
Happy Mother’s Day! It seems that my blog and I have gained the attention of a gentleman (and I use that term loosely) named Matthew Mitchell. His Facebook profile picture frame indicates that he supports Sezin Palmer for BOE, so perhaps this is his ham-handed attempt at electioneering? Yeesh.
Allow me to set the record straight: I do not live on a golf course (not that there’s anything wrong with that), my children attend HCPSS, I write my blog on my phone, and I am lucky and blessed to...
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