Cecil County Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey Announces Election Run for District 2...
Cecil County Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey, who was appointed earlier this year by County Executive Moore to fill the balance of Moore’s term in District 2, announced Thursday night that she will be a...
View ArticleDist. 36 State Delegate Seat Up for Grabs as Caroline County Candidate Falls...
“Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map…” (With apologies to ‘Fiddler on the Roof’) Caroline County residents thought they had a golden opportunity to have their own “resident” Delegate in the General...
View ArticleSteve Arentz, Queen Anne’s Co. Commissioner, Wins Majority GOP Panel Support...
Steve Arentz, president of the Queen Anne’s County Board of Commissioners, has won the endorsement of Republican party committees in three of the four counties of the 36th District to fill a vacant...
View ArticleSanta Pipkin Fills Smigiel Political Stocking with $6K; Coal for Jacobs,...
It was two days after Christmas, 2013 and all through the Upper Shore, Republican politicos had visions of sugar-daddy plums coming down the chimney with ex-Sen. E.J. Pipkin, who resigned from his seat...
View ArticleTawes Political Crab-Gab Fest Brings Candidates to Shore; Cecil County’s...
CRISFIELD—What a difference a year makes in the political landscape of the Upper Eastern Shore, but some things never change at one Shore political institution: the J. Millard Tawes annual crab and...
View ArticleCarrie L. Taylor Indicted for Theft, Perjury at Cecil County GOP Committee;...
Carrie L. Taylor, the former treasurer of the Cecil County Republican Central Committee and a protégé of the old ‘Smipkin” GOP political machine, has been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of...
View ArticleCarrie L. Taylor Pleads Guilty to Theft from Cecil County GOP Committee;...
Carrie L. Taylor, the former treasurer of the Cecil County Republican Central Committee, has pleaded guilty to felony charges of stealing over $8,859 from donations and using the money to buy personal...
View ArticleLast of Smipkins Seek Elkton Rule; Zeauskas, Gorman Morph into “Zormans,” to...
COMMENTARY Cecil County has been there, done that, with several years of political turmoil instigated by the old Smipkin political machine and its cloned “Three Amigos” rule of the old county Board of...
View ArticleSmigiels File Double-Play, Names-the-Same Political Contests: Dad for Judge,...
NEWS ANALYSIS Never let it be said that perennial candidate and three-time loser Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., doesn’t have any more political tricks up his sleeves, even if they aren’t the sleeves on a...
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