Welcome to the first installment of a new Dagger feature, where we chronicle some of the happenings surrounding Harford’s upcoming November 2010 election. We’ll be tracking news stories, campaign events, election issues, election controversies, and a dash of heard-on-the-street rumor. We’ll be working to report and confirm as much news as possible ourselves, but we […]
Wayward Manatee Surfaces In Havre de Grace: Boat Cautiously ‘Til The Sea Cows Come Home
Havre de Grace police are used to fielding calls when strange things are found floating down the river or in the bay. On Saturday, those calls poured in to the police department in droves as residents of the waterside city reported seeing a strange creature paddling in the waters where the mouth of the Susquehanna […]
Transformer Grinds Through Harford: Exelon Upgrade Headed To Peach Bottom
A transformer will be passing through Harford County in the near future and this one is no toy. Weighing in at 481,000 pounds and belonging to Exelon Corporation, the first of seven new transformers bound for the company’s Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in Delta, PA will be hauled on Harford County roads over six […]
Magnetic Opportunities: With Harford Tech Full, Where Can Students Go?
Harford County Public Schools has a little gem of a high school once known to locals as Votech, but now called Harford Technical High School. As it stands today, the school is both a credit and a reproach to the management of Harford County Public Schools. Like every other public high school in Harford County, […]
Harford Officials Call For Reality Check On Property Tax Assessments
If you don’t agree with the way the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation figured your property tax bill recently, you are not alone. In a June 26th letter to Governor Martin O’Malley, Harford County Councilman Dion Guthrie says his constituents are complaining about the State’s “refusal to reevaluate real property valuations…in light of […]
Get Your Revolt On: Liberty, Taxes, And TEA On Tap Tuesday In Bel Air
The forecast for Tuesday in Bel Air calls for sunny skies, a high of 86 degrees, and a near-100 percent likelihood of a serious tax revolt. The Harford County Council is holding a public hearing on the tax assessment cap Tuesday night and a half-dozen tax-reducing, tax-repealing, tax-revolting groups have already mobilized their supporters to […]
Del. Pat McDonough And The Angry Mob That Wasn’t
Losing all focus and apparently abandoning the previous day’s fight against alleged oppression at the Bel Air Independence Day parade, Del. Pat McDonough and a handful of his supporters have launched an oppressive act of their own – attempting to silence and control this local news web site for daring to call them an “angry […]
Del. McDonough Threatens Legal Action If Parade Rules Don’t Change
Del. Pat McDonough has threated to pursue legal action and introduce legislation in Annapolis if the Bel Air Independence Day Committee fails to remove or revise rules he claims prohibit free speech during the annual July 4th parade. A furious letter writing campaign and bitter back-and-forth between Del. McDonough’s supporters and members of the Independence […]
