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Sex Offender causes Ho-Ho-Hold on Dear Santa Mail

After a sex offender was discovered to be working in Maryland at the local operation... more

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Self Magazine’s Healthiest Cities for Women

For the 10th year in a row, SELF Magazine set out to determine the healthiest cities... more

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Beautiful Maryland weddings at Milton Ridge

Weddings at the Milton Ridge Historic Chapel are perfect, intimate and elegant.

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Latest in the ACORN scandal, new report says group is operating illegally in Maryland

ACORN may be operating illegally in the state of Maryland. According to the exclusive... more

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Some Potent Arguments For Legalizing Marijuana

“When’s the last time you heard about some guy on marijuana coming in and hitting... more

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JOHN HOPKINS:CONTACT,DIRECTION AND MAP

JOHN HOPKINS:top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings.

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71st Annual Labor Day Parade- Maryland

The City of Gaithersburg and the Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Fire Department... more

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Maryland Town Mayor Hoists Gadsen Flag in Protest

The mayor of Hampstead, Maryland, will replace the town’s municipal flag with the Gadsen flag on September 1, a press release reports. Newly elected mayor Haven N. Shoemaker ordered the switch through executive order to protest anticipated cuts in state funding to local governments including Hampstead.
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“We have the so-called stimulus which is nothing more than an unprecedented issuance of debt. We have ObamaCare. In Maryland, we have a complete failure by Governor O’Malley and the Legislature to balance the state budget,” Shoemaker said. “The $3.8 billion in federal money sent to Maryland was wasted on pork barrel projects and social program spending rather than on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Now the State is dumping their failure of fiscal leadership into our laps.”

Shoemaker hopes other mayors will follow suit. “Maybe this won’t amount to anything. Maybe other local governments will decide to join us. In any event, the people in Hampstead will know that there is still one level of government left in America that is of the people, by the people and for the people.”

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The flag was designed by and is named after American general and statesman Christopher Gadsden. The use of the timber rattlesnake on the yellow flag as a symbol of the American colonies can be traced back to the publications of Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, he made the first reference to the rattlesnake in a satirical commentary published in his Pennsylvania Gazette. It had been the policy of Britain to send convicted criminals to America, and Franklin suggested that they thank the British by sending rattlesnakes to England. During the Revolutionary War, the snake image was used as a symbol of the colonies. Since the Revolution, the flag has seen times of reintroduction as both a symbol of American patriotism and as a symbol of disagreement with the government.The mayor of Hampstead, Maryland, will replace the town’s municipal flag with the... more