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Monday - May 12
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| • Aberdeen City Council legis. meeting (City Hall) |
Tuesday - May 13
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• Farmers Market (Risteau parking lot, Bel Air, 9 am)
• Harford Poetry & Lit. Society (Rockfield Manor, Bel Air, 1 pm)
• HCC Board Of Trustees meeting (board rm, HCC, 6 pm)
• Harford County Council legis. meeting (Bel Air, 7:30 pm) |
Wednesday - May 14
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| • Ripken Stadium Management Board meeting (City Hall, Aberdeen, 4 pm) |
Thursday - May 15
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| • Farmers Market (MARC train station, Edgewood, 3 pm) |
Friday - May 16
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| • Lunchtime Concert (Office Street, Bel Air, 1 pm) |
Saturday - May 17
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• Farmers Market (Risteau parking lot, Bel Air, 7 am)
• Havre de Grace High School Music Boosters presents 4th Annual 5K Run/Walk (700 Congress Ave., 7:30 am)
• Farmers Market (Pennington Avenue between Washington Street and Union Ave, Havre de Grace , 9 am)
• Dancing with Friends - Grand Opening (Bel Air Athletic Club, 11:30 am)
• Harford County Astronomical Society (Parking Lot, Harford Technical High School, dusk) |
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Upcoming ...
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• Northeast Maryland Technology Council meeting (Chesapeake Bay Golf Club, Rising Sun, 11:30 am) - May 22
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• 9th Annual Harford Hospice Regatta (Concord Point Lighthouse, Havre de Grace, 6:30 pm) - May 30
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• The McDonald's LPGA Championship presented by Coca-Cola (Bulle Rock Golf Course, Havre de Grace) - June 2-8
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• Summer Concert: ZZ Top band (Aberdeen Proving Ground, 6 pm) - June 22
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Interesting
A 2004 World Wealth Report compiled by brokerage firm Merrill Lynch & Co. found that one of every 125 Americans is a millionaire. That means Harford County has over 1,800 millionaires, if the local population profiles national statistics. It used to be bad form to die rich. If these guys ponied up just $1 million each, the county could have a world-class theater, opera house, symphony orchestra and hall, hospital complex, food kitchen, homeless shelter, Christian academy, Harford College, regional airport -- and still have $500 million left over to turn Havre de Grace into a world-class marina. Hmm.
Currently there is around $20 billion of housing value in the county. Payroll for employed adults is about $6 billion. Each segment contributes approximately the same in taxes annually to the county -- about $185 million. It would seem there is plenty of money to do the things that need doing here. Yet more than half of the county's income goes to the public school system, which many say performs badly. The county library system periodically seems to have difficulty keeping extended hours for patrons. It took 20 years to get Moores Mill Road, then the worst road in the county, repaved. And unless you are a paid up member, it costs $400 for an emergency ride to the hospital in a publicly financed ambulance. Hmm.
In a 2004 report, the U.S. Geological Survey said that about 408 billion gallons of water per day were withdrawn for all uses in the U.S. during 2000. That's around 1,450 gallons per person per day. In Harford County, that represents about 340 million gallons per day. The two largest users are thermoelectric power and irrigation. Since 1950, irrigation has accounted for about 65 percent of total water withdrawals. Public drinking water accounts for about 10 percent. What does all of this mean for Harford County? It would seem that as we fill up our farmland with houses, our need for water should drop. Hmm.
While we're on the subject of water, I have noticed over the years a disturbing phenomenon. As I rinse my series of drinking glasses using public water from the spigot and set them back in the same spot on the sink counter, after about three weeks a yellow circle forms from the run-off from the glasses. Is this chlorine residue? Is it yellow sand or clay particles suspended in the drinking water? The Harford County government web site indicates that extensive water testing goes on regularly for all kinds of chemicals. So maybe I am hallucinating. On the other hand, I have noticed over the years that shelf space has grown substantially for bottled drinking water in our grocery stores. Hmm.
Competition in business is a wonderful thing. It keeps prices down and product and service quality high. So we know, of course, that it was an anomaly, pure coincidence, that the week prior to Election Day 2005, the price of gasoline fell to its lowest range in several months: $1.99 - $2.05 per gallon; and the week after Election Day 2005, the price of gasoline started back up. At this writing, it's around $2.33 per gallon. Our guess is it will peak during the summer driving season, and that there will be two or three Middle East incidents to help it along. We're pretty sure these price increases have nothing to do with the merger of Shell and Texaco, two of the largest oil companies in the world. After all, the Justice Department said the merger was not anti-competitive. Hmm.
Archives
Shout Out: Nothing Left to Sell (John Buren) - November 2005
Harford's Top 20 Most Influential Women - March 2005
Harford's Top 20 Web Sites - February 2004
Shout Out: It's not the heat, it's the stupidity
(John Buren) - December 2003
Shout Out: Good News / Bad News
(John Buren) - November 2003
Shout Out: Bits and Pieces (John Buren) - October 2003
Trivial pursuits (John Buren) - September 2003
Where have you gone, Mr. Robinson (John Buren) - August 2003
Liars, cheats, and other heroes (John Buren) - July 2003
Harford's top 20 most influential people - June 2003
The day before he died - November 2002
End of terrorism! End of freedom? - September 2002
Service with a frown - September 2001
No good deed goes unpunished - June 2001
There are no more downtowns downtown - March 2001
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