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Have you seen this recent announcement from Howard County Government?

VOLUNTARY WATER RESTRICTION: Effective immediately, the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) has issued a voluntary water restriction for public water customers in the surrounding area, including Howard County. Due to the ongoing lack of rain and overall below-average annual rainfall, Carroll County’s Liberty Reservoir, one of our region’s main drinking water sources, has dropped to its lowest point in nearly two decades.

To read the announcement in its entirety, click here. 

One of the first comments I read responding to this was along the lines of, “That’s ridiculous! How can there be a drought? It’s raining!”

Oh, my. Surely that person is some relation to the fellow who claimed that there was no such thing as global warming because he had recently been able to make a snowball.

I thought of this last evening when I saw reports of dangerous flooding in Allegany County. Who knows what our commenter would think of that?

To be honest, I also thought about retired Superintendent of Schools Michael Martirano. You may have seen the news that he has been chosen to be the new Superintendent in Allegany County. His term doesn’t begin until July 1st, but I’m sure he was watching these events unfold with great concern.


If we think it was a challenge to implement a new bus system, that’s nothing to taking a new job knowing it may entail evacuations by boat. Onward to new challenges, eh?

An aside: this particular article inadvertently makes it clear that Larry Hogan is still pretending to be the Governor and that this news outlet was willing to give him the space to do that. 




A shoutout to the teachers, and all other school staff, who were keeping those students safe under extraordinary circumstances yesterday. Just add that to the list of things we expect teachers to do for our children while being underpaid, overworked, and under-resourced. 

If you have noticed Howard County teachers out in force lately to advocate for improved education funding in the budget, you might want to give a thought to exactly who it is who shelters your child in an active shooter situation or when the waters are rising around them.








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