Maryland: Frederick

Conservative Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Frederick and liberal Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards of Prince Georges County--the ideological bookends of the state's congressional delegation--were the only Marylanders to vote against a $106 billion measure to insure continued military operations in...

All politics may be local. But do local politics need to be partisan? That’s what aldermen in Frederick, Maryland’s second largest city, will discuss tonight when they consider a proposal to switch Frederick municipal elections to non-partisan status– meaning no...

The Baltimore Sun's Liz Bowie reports this morning that the state school board released a legal opinion yesterday forbidding the Frederick School District from releasing a count of the number of children of illegal immigrants attending school there. At least...

Perhaps you have seen the most recent iteration of the long time controversy over Maryland's state song "Maryland, My Maryland." Del. Pam Beidle (D-32) has proposed changing the lyrics to the state's song after receiving letters from a bunch of fourth graders. Let's break this down a bit.

The common sense reaction to this is no different than those mentioned in the well stated objections to efforts to outlaw "beer pong" namely there are more important problems yet to be solved that should garner Delegate Beidle's attention. But this is a cultural issue and provides a teaching moment for both the failure of our public schools to properly teach the history of this state and to demonstrate the indoctrination of public school children led by the close knit cooperation of teacher's unions and liberal politicians.