“Let’s keep all speed limits as they are, and use speed cameras everywhere. If you are caught speeding over what they allow you, soak ’em, big-time. Maybe $20 per mile, for each mile per hour over the posted speed limit.”
— Washington County
“Gov. O’Malley needs to keep the death penalty in Maryland and not repeal it. A life sentence is hardly a punishment for certain crimes. It is unconscionable that cop killers, murderers, child molesters who murder their victims, and other monsters are given a cot, three ‘hots,’ and free medical care for life, at taxpayer expense. Meanwhile, we have decent, hardworking, law-abiding citizens who can’t even afford the necessities of life such as rent, food, and utilities, much less health care. You tell me who deserves the taxpayers’ money more.”
— Boonsboro
“You know, all these Republicans, all the screaming, Second Amendment, Second Amendment, Second Amendment, it seems like ... that the Constitution is your bible, and not the Bible itself. Don’t you know one of the commandments is ‘Thou shall not kill,’ and Jesus said about turning the other cheek? If you’re so much worried about your Second Amendment right, so you can have a zillion guns, so you can what? If you’re a true Christian, you should stand there, turn the cheek, pray. Isn’t that true? It says thou shall not kill.”
— Hagerstown
“A good day for me is opening the newspaper to discover that it is not a Leonard Pitts day, with his crazy rants against the awful Republicans, anybody’s who’s a conservative, anybody that isn’t a Democrat. They are so tiresome. ... Yep, it’s a relief not to have to face Leonard every day.”
— East Hagerstown
“When playing bingo at the local fire companies, for baskets or pocketbooks or whatever, I don’t think it’s right that people selling the tickets to win money should be able to be buying them also. That should be just for the people that are playing bingo. People playing bingo should be allowed to buy the tip jars, but not the people selling the tip jars. This needs to be looked into.”
— Hagerstown
“To me, you have to look no further than the government’s war on drugs to see that if a government outlaws something one segment of the population wants, the use will continue. This will be the same with any gun ban. Criminals will still get the guns they want, as they do now with drugs, while law-abiding citizens will be regulated as to what they can buy.”
— Edgemont
“In President Obama’s State of the Union address, among the litany of proposals, he stated, ‘My administration will release a new college scorecard that parents and students can use to compare schools ... where you can get the most bang for your buck.’ We don’t need another federal government bureaucracy doing what the private sector has been doing for years. U.S. News & World Report and others have been measuring and rating colleges ... one of those rankings is educational value versus cost, and locally, we should consider ourselves fortunate.”
— Antrim Township, Pa.
“I believe the recent request by our new mayor, requesting $10 million for a stadium, is ludicrous. I mean, you stop and think about it, the City of Hagerstown wants to up surcharges and everything else on county residents that’s hooked to their city water and sewer, because they say they need to make improvements. Why don’t they borrow that money and put it in the capital gains fund or whatever, and put it in the water and sewer department? Fix what we got before you build something new. You build something new, it’s going to take more water, more sewer, and they’re going to charge more again.”
— Hagerstown
“I just saw in The Herald-Mail’s paper on Saturday that the Washington County public schools plan to give the students a longer spring break in 2013 through 2014. Reading between the lines, I feel as though that Maryland is leaning more toward a full school year with breaks in between, just like other states have done. This is really an insult to the students. They need their summers, family time. They are controlling when and how we can spend our free time with our kids.”
— Smithsburg
“I don’t know why John McCain, he’s worrying about this Benghazi thing, wants investigation about President Obama, what he’s doing on that attack, but he never asked for an investigation for why George Bush and Rumsfeld and all that bunch sent our troops into war in Iraq, got 4,000 people, soldiers killed, service people killed, plus civilians and children. So it was a lie to get us into a war, got all these kids killed. So why no investigation about him? So they’re only worried about Benghazi. I get tired of hearing about it.”
— Hagerstown
“The Washington County Sheriff’s Department is going to kill someone in this small town of Clear Spring. They drive through this town like they are on the Indy 500. This is a town. People live here. Slow it down.”
— Clear Spring
“I remember when Bush was president and gas prices were this high, the media was all over him. How comes now that Obama’s president, the media isn’t all over him? It’s too one-sided, isn’t it?”
— Williamsport
“To the person from Hagerstown who thinks 99 weeks is long enough to find a job: When was the last time you looked for work — not just filling out applications and going to interviews, but actually seeking to secure a position that offered wages you could live on? I’ve been unemployed for almost four years. I have a college degree, years of experience, and even took advantage of the time I was out of work to take courses and improve my skills. Hundreds of applications later, seeking any job I can, still no job offers. I can say from personal experience that most people are trying their best to get jobs. There just aren’t many jobs out there to get.”
— Sharpsburg
