Letters to the Editor - Dec. 18

3:45 p.m. EST, December 16, 2011

Now, of course, not all people are Christians, so they wouldn't miss it maybe, because they never experienced it like we have all our lives. However, some people may enjoy these events as holidays, not realizing the real meaning behind it. This is sad, but I think it could be possibly true if they don't believe in Jesus. The Holy Spirit that Jesus left with us to live within us is proof that the everlasting love will never die.

This is the love I am writing about today.

Jack Myers

Hagerstown

Inmates' work with dogs is a labor of love

To the editor:

The Hagerstown prisons have gone to the dogs, literally. Dogs are being housed, trained, and shown love and care, some for the first time in their lives, here at Roxury Correctional Institution.

I watch them outside my window, and I see the intensive therapy given to the poor animals that have been used, abused and abandoned. People can truly be cruel, but isn't it nice that those who once were labeled the "bad guys" are now turning themselves around and helping the helpless dogs.

I hope others feel as I do and give kudos to the administration and those inmates involved for making use of inmate labor for such time-consuming work, a labor of love.

Rocky Hines

RCI, No. 176-059

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Robin Ficker at 12:04 AM December 30, 2011

Why are some folks afraid to post in their own name? I am not. The Ficker Amendment, as the opponents led by Gas tax Garagiola called it, stopped cold the annual large property tax increases we were getting in Montgomery County. So it has been a very good thing. Just like stopping a Maryland Gas Tax increase which will make Maryland's gas tax twice that of Virginia will be a good thing.

wayneat21783 at 6:59 AM December 23, 2011

Ficker SEEMS to have the best interests of MD taxpayers in mind doesn't he? WRONG! This is a man who has dedicated his life to keeping drunk drivers on the road and criminals on the streets by any underhanded, unscrupulous means possible. He has cost taxpayers countless thousands by clogging the courts with frivolous motions and requests that extend well beyond the boundary of good sense and responsibility. The "Ficker Ammendment"? Come on! If that doesn't smack of a typical narcissist, to have one's name as part of a effort supposedly crafted to save the misinformed taxpayers money, I don't know what does. Folks, it's the typical "wolf in sheeps clothing", "fox in the henhouse" type scenario that's become all too common in modern day politics. Thankfully, in his past 20-something years of trying, he has yet to gain a prominent position in mainstream politics. The only good thing to come of a person like Ficker running for office, thereby becoming a "public figure", is that it gives people like me the right to expose them for who they really are.

applejack at 12:26 PM December 19, 2011

here's a solution about how to revitalize downtown:

1) burn everything in a three block radius centered on the square

2) build one big casino where the square used to be

3) build a dozen or so (to start) strip clubs like in WV

4) legalize prostitution and build a couple of high-class brothels like in Nevada

5) save room for several head shops for when the Feds legalize marijuana and cocaine

this would have several benefits:

1) the place would look nice

2) all the vice would be concentrated in one place hence the need for fewer police (lower taxes?)

3) it would be busy 24/7, 365 days a year

4) there would be so much revenue genreated the politicians could line their pockets and no one woule notice or care.

in short, vice does pay!

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