About a dozen faith leaders and environmentalists were arrested on Thursday morning in Annapolis at a demonstration against allowing fracking in Maryland.
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Anti-Fracking Protesters Arrested at Demonstration in Annapolis
Wednesday Morning Headlines: State School Board VP Resigns; McDonough Banking on Trump; and More
Baltimore’s Czech and Slovak Festival is a surprising reflection on heritage – Baltimore City Paper
Maryland Voices: Western Maryland voters avoid talking about politics – WYPR
VP of State School Board Resigns In Protest Over Executive Orders – WBAL Radio
McDonough Thinks Trump Can Help Him Win a Congressional Seat – CBS Local
Thieves smash and grab ATM from Brooklyn convenience store – ABC2
6 Biggest Shake-My-Head Moments of 2013
As we look back on the year, let’s remember six moments that left Marylanders bemused, outraged, or even embarrassed, depending on one’s sense of humor.
6) There was the time Maryland schools exempted an unprecedented number of students from a standardized reading test to inflate our public schools’ national ranking.
5) And who could forget the plight of the Park Elementary second-grader who was suspended for chewing his pop-tart into the shape of a gun and making “inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class.” (This shake-my-head moment even spawned a sequel when Anne Arundel Republicans presented the kid with a lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association.)
4) 2013 was also the year Maryland got its own secessionist group, which hopes to take the five westernmost counties and form a more politically conservative state.
3) Remember when a brilliant Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon compared Obamacare to slavery — slavery! — on national television?
The 51st State, Western Maryland: How To Succeed Without Seceding
Courtesy Citybizlist–The mountain natives are restless in Maryland. They want to have it their way, though they represent just 10 percent of the state’s population.
Here are a few things that annoy them:
• A stream of tax increases (including one on rain!) from Annapolis.
• State restrictions that devalue their land.
• Tougher gun-control laws.
• A bleeding-heart law that does away with the death penalty.
• A state law legalizing gay marriages.
• Political map-makers who deprive them of their conservative congressman.
It’s enough to make you want to secede, which is the plan put forth by a Carroll County blogger, Scott Strzelczyk of New Windsor, for the five counties often lumped together as Western Maryland.
The verb “to secede” is a curious term not to be confused with the similar-sounding verb “to succeed.”
Indeed, were the five western counties to secede from Maryland, there would be no chance for that movement to succeed.
It won’t happen
Here’s why.
• The 51st state: Western Maryland would be the third smallest by population (less than 660,000). Only Wyoming and Vermont would have fewer residents.
