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STATEMENT - COUNCIL CHAIR INGRID M. TURNER Council Makes Tough Fiscal Decision on Union Contracts Urges Baker Administration to Consider One-Time Bonus for All County Employees BY PRESS OFFICER percent of the County’s workforce, Fiscal Year 2012. edgement for their sacrifices, which Organization was negotiated by the previous As part of our fiduciary role in have contributed to the County’s Administration and included a two- overseeing the County’s finances, undesignated fund balance. The Prince George’s County percent Cost-of-Living increase that however, the County Council is well Therefore, we are urging the Council, after careful consideration the County Executive and County aware of the challenging economic Baker Administration to negotiate a and at times, emotional debate, Council agreed the County cannot times we continue to face in Prince one-time payment, or partial fur - voted 5-3 to accept County afford in the current economy. George’s County. Declining real lough reimbursement to all employ - Executive Rushern Baker’s recom - The County Council greatly property assessments, a lagging ees, in a manner that would not add mendation to decline endorsement appreciates the dedication, commit - housing market, and increasing to the County’s structural deficit. of legislation (CB-9-11; CB-10-11; ment, and sacrifices of all of our pressures in pension contributions For bargaining unit employees, the CR-31-11; CR-32-11), which employees--General Schedule and and healthcare costs pose short and Council has strongly recommended approved the Collective Bargaining those across all bargaining units, long-term challenges for the that the Administration pursue Agreement between Prince over the last few years. In Fiscal County. As we near completion of multi-year collective bargaining George’s County and Council 67 of Years 2009 and 2010, our hardwork - our review of the FY 2012 proposed agreements. Such agreements could the American Federation of State, ing employees lost a portion of their County Budget, we appreciate the be patterned after the one recently County, and Municipal Employees salaries and wages due to furloughs. difficult choices that all of us must agreed to by the state of Maryland, (AFSCME), and its affiliated Locals In FY 2010 and FY 2011, employ - make to balance the County’s rev - which included a one-time payment 1170, 2462, 2735 and 3389, cover - ees did not receive cost-of-living enues with ever-present service FIlE PHOTO ing Fiscal Year 2011. The adjustments (COLAs) or merit demands, but we firmly believe that Prince George’s County Council Chair Agreement, which affects about 20- increases, and none are planned for our employees deserve acknowl - See CONTRACTS, Page A 7 Ingrid M. Turner Governor Mikulski, Sarbanes Introduce Bill to Clean Leon Kerry O’Malley Awarded Up Waste, Fraud In Government Contracting Signs Honorary By PRESS OFFICER long-time critic of the contract - Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s Office ing out process, which can be Doctorate Energy Bill wasteful, bad for morale at fed - Goal is to Generate WASHINGTON, D.C. – eral agencies and lead to poor Commissioner Guided U.S. Senator Barbara A. performance of essential gov - CIAA Conference to 20% of Energy from Mikulski (D-Md.) has intro - ernment functions. Under the Unprecedented Success duced the Correction of Bush administration, federal Renewable Source Longstanding Errors in spending on contracting out BY PRESS OFFICER Agencies Unsustainable skyrocketed from $222 billion PHOTO BY CaPITal NEwS SERvICE By PRESS OFFICER Procurements (CLEAN UP) in 2001 to $532 billion in U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) has introduced CIAA Governor’s Office Act, legislation that will reduce 2008. the Correction of Longstanding Errors in Agencies waste, fraud and abuse in the A poignant example of the Unsustainable Procurements (CLEAN UP) Act, legislation INDIANAPOLIS – Dr. ANNAPOLIS, MD (May federal contracting out process. dire consequences of contract - that will reduce waste, fraud and abuse in the federal con - Charlotte Westerhaus- 2011) – Governor Martin Congressman John ing out is the scandal at Walter tracting out process. Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) Renfrow, acting president of O’Malley issued this statement Sarbanes (D-Md.) introduced a Reed Hospital. The outrageous introduced a companion bill in the House of Martin University, bestowed regarding Senate Bill 690 - companion bill in the House of abuse of the A-76 process Representatives. upon Leon G. Kerry an Renewable Energy Portfolio - Representatives. resulted in the elimination of Honorary Doctorate of Laws Waste-to-Energy and Refuse- “Year after year, I’ve fought 350 federal employee positions tory definitions of inherently · Tasking agencies to deter - during a commencement cere - Derived Fuel: to improve the contracting out at the hospital. governmental or closely relat - mine whether they are now mony held Saturday, May 7, “After careful deliberation, process and make the competi - For years, those 350 ed to inherently governmental experiencing or will in the 2011, that also presented to I have decided to sign Senate tion process fair before federal employees had cleaned and is actually performed by feder - future experience shortages of 81students their university Bill 690. Our State has an jobs are contracted out,” maintained the hospital build - al employees. categories of federal employ - diplomas. aggressive goal of generating Senator Mikulski said, “Our ing and grounds, working · Encouraging agencies to ees and devise plans for Kerry is commissioner and 20% of our energy from Tier I federal employees are on the hand-in-hand with Walter Reed give federal employees oppor - addressing those shortages. chief executive officer (CEO) renewable sources by 2022 and front lines every day, working medical staff to provide the tunities to perform new work · Reforming the discredited of the Central Intercollegiate we intend to achieve that goal hard for America. They best care to our wounded war - and certain types of outsourced OMB Circular A-76 privatiza - Athletic Association (CIAA), through as much in-state ener - deserve our respect and appre - riors. When the Walter Reed work, including work that was tion process by ensuring all located in Hampton, Virginia. gy generation as possible. This ciation. I will not stop fighting contract was awarded to a pri - contracted out without compe - costs of conducting studies are Kerry has guided the 99-year will require a diverse fuel mix to level the playing field for vate contractor, 250 of the 350 tition and work that is contract - considered, charging in-house old, 13-member conference to including onshore and offshore federal employees and to pro - maintenance and grounds jobs ed out but is being poorly per - workforces only for actual unprecedented success. The wind, solar, biomass including tect them against unfair con - were eliminated. In September formed. overhead costs, abolishing CIAA Basketball Tournament poultry litter, and now waste- tracting out policies.” 2006, Senator Mikulski tried to · Requiring agencies to automatic recompetition of in- is the third most attended ath - to-energy if we are to realize “Over the last decade, we stop contracting out at Walter establish inventories of specif - house workforces, and impos - letic event in collegiate sports. our 20% goal. have been much too quick to Reed, taking the unusual step ic contracts identical to the one ing firm time limits on studies. Only the Atlantic Coast “Maryland is not alone in outsource many of govern - of bringing the individual con - already developed by the · Imposing a temporary sus - Conference (ACC) and Big this determination. Over half ment’s most basic functions,” tracting item out to the Senate Department of Defense. The pension on the use of the OMB East tournaments have larger of the states that have a renew - said Congressman Sarbanes. floor for a vote, but lost on the inventory would be used to Circular A-76 privatization attendance for their respective able energy goal classify “The desire to do so reflected a Senate floor by 2 votes. determine, among other things, process until the OMB events. The CIAA is the first municipal solid waste as a political ideology of shrinking The CLEAN UP Act will which contracts include inher - Director and the Inspectors National Collegiate Athletic renewable fuel. European the government workforce – build on Senator Mikulski’s ently governmental work, General of the five largest Association (NCAA) Division countries that are many even if it meant diminishing efforts to level the playing field which contracts were awarded agencies determine that all of II conference to have its tour - decades ahead of the United the quality or increasing the for federal employees by: without competition, and the reforms required by this nament televised as part of cost of government services.” · Ensuring that work that which contracts are being measure have been substantial - Senator Mikulski has been a meets the statutory and regula - poorly performed. ly implemented. See ENERGY, Page A 5 See KERRY, Page A 7 INSIDE County Executive, Rushern L. Baker, III Submits Keep Medicare Movie Review "Bridesmaids" We can -- and we must -- "Bridesmaids" is so funny, Appointments for County Council for Approval develop a credible deficit and has so many It's about reduction plan that is compre - time! qualities to it, that you By PRESS OFFICER Francis, Director, Office of Finance; already exceeded my expectations as hensive and considers all can easily overlook the fact County Executive’s Office Thomas Himler, Director, Office of Acting Directors, and I expect they will options. A credible budget that it's too long and has too Management and Budget; Monica continue to build on their accomplish - plan, however, does not hurt many dangling, underdevel - Acting Department Heads for Police, Johnson, Director, Office of Central ments in their agencies and departments.” the weakest, most vulnerable oped threads. Fire/EMS, Department of Environmental Services; Mark Magaw, Chief of Police; In accordance with the County Charter Americans. The House budget It's miraculous that the movie Resources, Department of Housing and and Samuel Wynkoop, Jr., Director, (Section 322: Confirmation of plan turns Medicare into a exists at all, never mind Community Development, Office of Department of Environmental Resources. Administrative Appointments), heads of voucher program and Medicaid whether its execution is flaw - Finance, Office of Management and “As Acting Directors of their agencies, agencies in the Executive Branch, as well into a block grant program less. Budget, and Office of Central Services they have served with a commitment to as members of boards and commissions, Opinion, Page A4 Out on the Town, Page A6 submitted for permanent appointments excellence. I submit them to the Council are subject to confirmation by the County UPPER MARLBORO, MD – Prince for approval with the utmost confidence Council, which must act to confirm or New Commissioners Earth Talk George’s County Executive, Rushern L. that they are the right choices for this reject such appointments within forty-five The Prince George’s County Dear EarthTalk: Baker, III submitted seven agency and County.” said Baker. “Their experience, days of their submission. The County Council approved County I heard someone say that department heads to the County Council leadership, and most importantly, dedica - Council must also hold public hearings on Executive Rushern L. Baker, legalizing pot—as for approval for permanent appointment. tion to the residents of Prince George’s all appointments not less than thirty days III’s nominees to the Californians considered doing The appointments by County Executive County will create noticeable positive after they are submitted by the County Washington Suburban last year—would benefit the Baker are as follows: Marc Bashoor, change for the employees within their Executive. Sanitary Commission and the environment. How would that Chief of Fire/EMS Department; Eric respective agencies and departments as Washington Suburban Transit be? Brown, Director, Department of Housing well as improved government services for Commission. -- William T., Portland, OR and Community Development; Gail our citizens. These individuals have See APPOINTMENTS, Page A 3 Business, Page A5 Features , Page A7 a2 — May 26 — June 1, 2011 — The Prince George’s Post Towns and N eighborS

In and Around Morningside-Skyline Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards’ Legislative Update by Mary McHale 301 735 3451 Congresswoman Edwards' following House passage of Montgomery County the Republican budget. Morningside VFD honored first in her class at Grace years ago and was associate District Office Open House The Republican Budget her for Bingo attendance Brethren Christian School in pastor at St. Philip’s in Camp Residents of Maryland's calls for a reduction in spend - Mary Barbara Koslak, 86, Clinton. Springs in the 1980s. 4th Congressional District are ing of over $5 trillion in the bingo-player and longtime resi - Betty Cottrell, of Karen Father G. Paul Herbert, pas - invited to attend the next ten years with two-thirds dent of Maria Avenue in Street in Skyline, has two tor of St. Ignatius Parish in Montgomery County District reductions in programs for Skyline, died April 27. A native grandchildren graduating: Oxon Hill since 2009, was Office Open House. This will low- and middle-income fami - of White House, N.J., she left Andrew Dangin, from Northern ordained 25 years ago. Father be a great opportunity to see lies. It proposes cuts that school to work on the family HS and headed to Stevenson Joseph A. Jenkins, pastor of where the office is located, would end Medicare, raising dairy farm—though she hated University in Baltimore, and Holy Family Parish in meet Congresswoman seniors’ costs substantially. It milking cows—, made car seats Thomas Cottrell, who is gradu - Mitchellville, was also Edwards and her staff, and proposes changing Medicaid, in a Cadillac factory, worked an ating from LaBelle HS in ordained 25 years ago. He for - find out what constituent ser - turning it into a block grant assembly line in Detroit, and Florida, and will attend Edison merly served as associate pastor vices are available in the dis - that cuts $770 billion from the waited tables. College. of St. Mary’s in Upper trict office. program. It proposes freezing one hand, the Republican bud - In 1947 she married Frank T. Heather McHale, my grand - Marlboro and as pastor of Holy May 18, 2011 discretionary spending levels, get ends Medicare for seniors, Koslak who was with Civil daughter-in-law, has completed Spirit in Forestville. 6:30pm - 7:30pm while ignoring defense. The and with the other it gives bil - Service, a job that took them to her PhD in English at the May he rest in peace budget passed the House by lions in tax breaks to oil com - Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago, University of Maryland. She SMSgt. John L. O’Connell, Office location: vote of 235 - 193. panies. “Republicans say this before they moved to Skyline. and Conor, my grandson, live in USAF (ret.), 85, longtime 8730 Georgia Avenue “The Republican budget is budget is about confronting Mary loved NASCAR and Clinton with their children, Skyline resident and federal Suite 610 neither bold nor balanced,” our nation’s shared challenges, the Redskins. And bingo. So Mary and Wesley. government retiree, died April Silver Spring, Maryland said Congresswoman but it would exempt defense much so, that back in 1994 the Call me at 301-735-3451 28. A native of Groton, N.Y., 20910 Edwards. “It does not provide spending, repeal healthcare Morningside Volunteer Fire with the name, school and he joined the Air Force and saw For additional information, the fair approach we need to reform for millions of Department presented her with future plans of your graduate. action in the Philippines during please call (301) 562-7960. solve our nation’s problems. Americans, and eliminate 1.7 a plaque at their 50th anniver - \Or email me at World War II, earning a Purple With one hand, the Republican million jobs. This is simply sary banquet, bearing the leg - [email protected]. Heart and Bronze Star. He Congresswoman Edwards' budget takes away Medicaid unacceptable and it is a far cry end “Outstanding Supporter Reunions served at several bases before Statement on Passage of the from low-income families, and from the solutions our country Award” and thanking her for Crossland Class of 1966 has being assigned to Andrews Repbulican Budget with the other extends perma - needs to create jobs and pre - her “Continuous Participation a reunion coming up July 23. where the family lived until Congresswoman Donna F. nently and increases the Bush pare our children for the 21st in Bingo.” She missed only one Contact Phil at they moved to Skyline Terrace Edwards released a statement tax cuts for the wealthy. With Century.” Monday in 17 years—the day [email protected]. 45 years ago. After retiring her son died. Crossland Class of 2001 will from the military, he continued One of her special bingo have a Night of Elegance at La to work for the federal govern - friends was neighbor Winnie Fontaine Blueu in Lanham on ment. Brandywine-Aquasco Lanehart. Another dear friend July 30. Go to: crosslandclas - The year 1998 was a heart - was Bernard “Bob” Smith, a sof2001reunion.eventbrite.co. breaking year: His wife Anne by Ruth Turner 301 888 2153 neighbor and longtime treasurer Maryland Park Class of 1951 died in an auto accident and his for the Morningside Fire plans an event in September. 44-year-old son John C. MEN'S DAY Sandwich $4.00, Fish Drama Club, art Club, wII, Department. Contact Rose (Antonelli) “Carey” died of cancer. Christ United Methodist Sandwich $7.00 , Rib Sandwich Computers and so much more. She was known to many as Turner at 301-888-1771 or Survivors include sons Church, aquasco MD, will cel - $8.00 and Beef Sandwich we have two location located in The Candy Lady because she [email protected], or Kevin, Terrence and Timothy, ebrate their annual Men's Day $8.00. Side items cost $1.00 Brandywine and largo. always had bowls of candy Tom Reese at 301-469-8627 or five grandchildren and a sister, at their 9:45 am worship service (Green Beans, Potato Salad, Register online: www.world - available. [email protected]. Mary McCallick. Father Scott on Sunday, June 26. The guest Baked Beans, Sweet Potatoes viewchristiancenter.com. To Frank Koslak died in 1986, Suitland Class of 1971 has Hahn celebrated the Mass of speaker will be Rev. Tyrone and Corn on the Cob. we will obtain more information visit and Frank Jr., in 2004. She is plans for July 23: www/greatre - Christian Burial at St. Philip’s Johnson of St, Michael's also have a Bake Sale. info@worldviewchristiancen - survived by her son Ronald and unions.com. Church. Granddaughter Claire Catholic Church, Baden, MD. Free admission for all. There ter.com or call office phone at his wife Kathy; daughter-in-law Suitland Class of 1981 has a presented a musical tribute, Brother alfred Johnson will be will be fun activities for the 301-372-0053. Fax: 301-372- Carol; five grandchildren, 30th reunion celebration “The Beauty of the Cross” the guest soloist. The church is kids which will include water 0842. Joshua, Thomas, Vickie, June10-12. Go to www.suit - before Mass. located at 22919 Christ Church Slide, Moon Bounce, Timothy and Michelle; step- land1981.info. Milestones Road in aquasco, Maryland. Basketball, Horse Shoes and MENTORING grandchildren Tammy and Former area pastors honored Happy birthday to Aidan Brother Ronald Banks is the Indoor Games. location is St. Find out if mentoring is for Stephen; and two great-grand - Cardinal Donald Wuerl cel - Kilbride, May 20; Crystal president of the United Philip's Episcopal Church you. Talk to family and friends daughters. Father Scott Hahn ebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving Foster, Juanita Hood, David Methodist Men and Rev. 13801 Baden westwood Road about mentoring. Encourage celebrated Mass of Christian on May 17 to honor 13 priests Sanford and Linda Holsonbake, Robert E. walker, Jr. is the pas - Brandywine, Maryland 20613- them to learn more about men - Burial at St. Philip’s, with bur - who are marking milestones May 22; Betty Call, L. Dorothy tor. 8426. Telephone 301-888- toring. Support youth pro - ial at Resurrection Cemetery. anniversaries. Among them are Jones, Nancy Sawyer, Dory 1536. grams in your community. Academia several who have served in Babecki and Chester Lanehart ANNUAL BULL ROAST Discover the rewards of men - Jessica Bell, daughter of South County: IV, May 23; Edna Lucas and St. Philip's Church will have WORLD VIEW CHRIST - toring today at Deborah Bell of Offut Road in Celebrating 50 years as a Harry Messer, May 24; their annual Bull Roast on IAN CENTER www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~dfa Skyline, is graduating from priest is Father Peter J. Dennis Cook, Norma Saturday, July 16, 2011: Time Summer Camp 2011 at mcoms. Henry Wise HS and will be Sweeney, a native of County Edwards and my son John is 12 Noon- until. a day of fun, world view Christian Center is attending Delaware State Kerry, Ireland, who was associ - McHale, May 25; and food and Gospel Fellowship. for ages 3-11. we offer swim - SUMMER JOBS PRO - University. ate pastor of Holy Family Christopher Nichols, May 26. Chicken Dinners cost $10.00, ming twice a week, Sports GRAM Emily Loufik, daughter of Parish in Hillcrest Heights for Happy anniversary to Fish Dinners $11.00, Beef Camp, Daily academics, To access the Summer Youth Dennis and Sharon Loufik of five years during the ‘70s. He Dennis and Leigh D'Avanzo, Dinners $13.00, Rib Dinners Tutoring available. Trips Jobs Program application, go Ridgecrest Drive in Skyline, is currently pastor of Our Lady their 22nd on May 20; Ronnie $13.00 and Combo Dinner include Bowling, Six Flags, to www.princegeorgescoun - has been named to the dean’s of Grace in Silver Spring. and Karen Ellis, their 45th on $15.00 (any 3 meats) Beef/ Skating, Rock Climbing, DC tymd.gov and then go to select list at Babson College in Father Joseph R. Sileo, pastor May 20; and Chet and Winnie Chicken/ Ribs/ Fish. all din - Museum Tour, College Tour, a Service and from the drop Wellesley, Mass. She graduat - of Nativity Church in Lanehart, their 52nd on May ners include Green Beans, Corn Go Karts, etc. Every day we down menu click Youth ed from high school in 2009, Washington, was ordained 40 23. on the Cob, Baked Beans, have Field Trips. Employment Services. If you Sweet Potatoes, Potato Salad Supervised interest based clubs have trouble accessing the and a Roll. Sandwiches including Music Club, application, contact Norma Yvette Lewis to Serve as Chair of includes Hot Dog $2.00 with Cosmetology, Step Club, Dorsey at 301-736-7176. chips and drink, Chicken XBOX 360, Dance Club, Maryland Democratic Party Peter O’Malley to become future of the Party. “I will con - "I have been honored to serve Clinton Conversations Chief of Staff to Mayor tinue our commitment to ensur - as Chair and am grateful to have by Norma Fazenbaker 301 579 6116 Rawlings-Blake ing Maryland Democrats had the opportunity to help lay throughout our state have the the foundation for the 2012 elec - Like heart disease or high Market will take place from 9 called insulin. Insulin helps ANNAPOLIS (May, 2011) – benefit of a strong, organized, tion. I am confident Yvette will blood pressure, hearing loss, A.M. to 3 P.M. with a raffle and glucose get into most cells. It The Maryland Democratic Party coordinated and inclusive Party complete the important work left untreated, can lead to seri - a two seat glider with middle acts like a key that can unlock announced that Yvette Lewis infrastructure. We have a clear we’ve begun, and achieve more ous problems. Problems com - table. For information, or to the cell so sugar can get inside will serve as Acting Chair of the roadmap to victory in 2012 to historic victories in 2011 and monly associated wih hearing rent space, call 301-579-2230. where it can be used for energy. Maryland Democratic Party. reelect President Barack Obama, 2012," said Mr. O’Malley. loss - loneliness and isolation - Oh, yes, there will also be a When you have diabetes, the This announcement follows Senator Ben Cardin and "Yvette is taking the reins of a are among those older people bake sale. insulin in your body does not Peter O’Malley’s resignation to Maryland Democrats. I truly Party that is in very strong finan - fear the most. Dr. Frank Lin, From July 14 to 17, you are work like it should. With Type become Chief of Staff to look forward to our work cial shape and has a professional assistant professor in the invited to the 11th Annual I diabetes, your body does not Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie ahead.” and selfless staff. She will take Division ol Otology at Johns eWomen Network International make insulin at all. With Type Rawlings-Blake. Yvette Lewis is assuming this outstanding organization to Hopkins University School of Conference and Business Expo 2, insulin cannot work to let In a letter sent to members of leadership of the Party after new heights." Medicine, finds that men and in Dallas, Texas. This is four sugar into your cells, or your the Maryland Democratic State extensive political experience in women with hearing loss are days of great business deals, a body may not make insulin any Central Committee, Governor Maryland including most recent - much more likely to develop most delicious buffet of extraor - more, or both. With both types O’Malley nominated Lewis to ly the 2010 Hoyer for Congress dementia and Alzheimer's dis - dinary business women, of diabetes, sugar builds up in serve as Chair and noted her life - and 2008 Obama for America SUBSCRIBE TODAY! ease. Even mild hearing loss exhibitors, pressenters, spon - your bloodstream because it long work as a grassroots campaigns. Lewis, who was doubled the dementia risk. That sors, decision makers, and joint cannot get into your cells. 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She currently serves as the AARP Bulletin. digests your food and turns it cure diabetes, your doctor can Party’s Executive Committee Maryland Democratic Party’s The Prince George’s St. Paul's Parish in Baden,. into a type of sugar called glu - help you treat it. This informa - and full State Central Committee First Vice Chair and represents Post, P.O. Box 1001, will be holding their annual cose. In your intestines, glucose tion came from a brochure I to confirm Yvette Lewis as Chair Prince George’s County on the BBQ Chicken and Flea Market is absorbed into your blood - found in my doctor's office. at their next scheduled meetings. Party’s Executive Board. Upper Marlboro, MD on June 18. Chicken will be stream. Your body carries glu - Chewing gum while peeling In a statement, Lewis Peter O’Malley offered his 20772 available to eat in or carry out cose to your cells, along with a onions will keep you from cry - expressed her excitement for the full support to his successor. from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. Flea hormone made in your pancreas ing. May 26 — June 1, 2011 — The Prince George’s Post —a3 CommuNiTy

Practical Money Skills By Jason Alderman Senior year sticker shock Parents, if your high-school senior is about to graduate, you have my heart-felt congratula - tions – and my sympathy. As your checkbook can attest, this Appointees (l tor) Dr. Donald Shell, Samuel E. Wynkoop, Jr., Director, Department of Environmental Resources ., Mark A. has been an expensive year and Magaw, Chief of Police and Fire Chief Marc S. Bashoor it's not over yet. You're proba - bly still facing senior prom, Appointments from A 1 Housing Agencies in New legislative analyst for the Magaw has served the agency in graduation gifts and many other Orleans, Philadelphia and Mayor’s Office of State numerous capacities, most expenses. Submitting these appoint - Baltimore. In his positions as Relations in Baltimore City and recently as the Deputy Chief of For those whose children are ments today ensures that the Executive Director and Deputy as a policy analyst for the the Strategic Management juniors, start planning and bud - Prince George’s County Executive Director, Mr. Brown Department of Legislative Bureau. He has also served as geting now for next year. Here are some expenses you can antici - Council will have the necessary has supervised staffs of up to Services in the Maryland the Commander of the Narcotic pate: time to act upon them before its 1600 and managed budgets up General Assembly. Mr. Himler Enforcement Division, where he Senior prom can be one of the year's biggest expenditures. August recess. to $250 Million. holds a Bachelor of Science directed our agency’s participa - According to a recent national survey conducted by Visa Inc., fam - Biographies of Appointees: Mr. Brown has served as a degree in Business tion in several Federal task ilies expect to spend an average of $807 on prom-related expens - Marc Bashoor, Chief, panelist and presenter at afford - Administration and a Master’s forces. Interim Chief Magaw es this year. These might include: Fire/EMS Department: able housing workshops and of Professional Accountancy also commanded the Planning New prom dresses often cost $100 to $500 or more. Marc Bashoor returned to conventions throughout from West Virginia University. and Research Division, the Another couple hundred for shoes, accessories, flowers and serve Prince George’s County as Maryland and the United States. Monica J. Johnson, Director, District I Station in Hyattsville professionally styled hair, nails and make-up. our Interim Fire Chief, effective He has served as an Advisor to Office of Central Services and was the Acting Commander New tuxedos cost several hundred dollars, not to mention for - December 6, 2010. Boards of Commissioners in Monica Johnson was of the District VI Station. Other mal shirt, tie, studs and shoes. Even renting them could run over A retired 23 year veteran of Havre de Grace, Maryland and appointed as Acting Director, assignments entailed a com - $150. the Prince George's County Hartford, Connecticut. He was a Office of Central Services in mand in the Criminal Figure at least $100 an hour plus tip to rent a limousine for a Fire/EMS Department, with 29 resource and technical reviewer February 2011. Previously Ms. Investigation Division where he minimum of four hours. years of service in the emer - for the HUD publication, Johnson was the Assistant oversaw the Special Crimes Prom tickets typically cost $50 to $150 per person, depending gency service field, Interim Fire Private Management of Public Secretary for Mission Support Section which included the on venue, entertainment, meals, etc. Chief Bashoor is also a Prince Housing. Mr. Brown was a at the Maryland Department of Sexual Assault, Child Abuse Budget at least $40 for a nice meal. George's County native and member of The Public Housing Natural Resources (DNR). She and Victim Services Units. After-parties can run anywhere from a few bucks at the bowl - Bowie High School graduate. Administrative Reform has held that position since May Interim Chief Magaw’s major ing alley to hundreds for group hotel suites. Interim Fire Chief Bashoor Initiative in 2007. 2007. In her capacity as accomplishments include estab - Prom is only one component of the senior-year experience. Talk began his service to Prince Mr. Brown has earned a Assistant Secretary, Monica lishing the Behavioral Sciences to recent graduates and their parents about expenses they faced and George's County as a volunteer Bachelor’s Degree in Public provides strategic leadership Unit in the Criminal their lessons learned. Decide early on which expenses are essential member at Bowie Fire Station Administration, a Master’s and guidance on business opera - Investigations Division and the and which ones you can do without. 39. During his 23 year career, Degree in Urban and regional tions and manages several criti - Regional Area Gang For example, if your child is college bound, entrance exams, Interim Fire Chief Bashoor rose Planning and a Juris Doctorate. cal business functions includ - Enforcement Unit for the study guides and tutoring are important, but can quickly add up: through the ranks of Prince Mr. Brown is a Baltimore ing, finance, procurement, agency. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) costs $47 each time it's George's County Fire/EMS Leadership Alumni and has audit, information technology, Interim Chief Magaw has taken, plus an additional $10 to $21 per individual subject test. Department receiving numerous served on the Board of Directors licensing & registration, human received specialized training American College Testing (ACT) costs $33, plus another $15 citations and commendations of a number of professional and resources, and fair practices. with the U.S. Department of for the writing test. including the Fire/EMS civic organizations. Prior to joining DNR she Homeland Security, the Anti- A comprehensive online SAT review course from the Princeton Department Silver Medal of Gail D. Francis, Director, served as Intergovernmental Defamation League, the Federal Review will set you back $599. Valor in 2004. Office of Finance: Relations Director and Acting Emergency Management Personalized individual and small group tutoring sessions can Interim Fire Chief Bashoor is Gail D. Francis is currently Mission Support Team Chief at Agency and the Department of cost thousands of dollars. a tenured fire service adjunct serving as the County’s Acting the Washington Suburban Justice. He is a member of the Other common senior year expenses include: instructor with the Texas A&M Director for the Office of Sanitary Commission (WSSC), policy board for the Middle College application fees – often $40 to $80 per institution. University, National Emergency Finance. Previously she served where she performed similar Atlantic-Great Lakes Organized For site visits at schools outside the area, costs can vary wide - Response and Rescue Training as Deputy Finance Director for duties. Early in her career at Crime Law Enforcement ly. Don't forget airfare, gas, lodging, meals, local transportation, Center. He also serves as an eleven years. WSSC she was a staff attorney Network (MAGLOCLEN), a etc. adjunct instructor with the Prior to coming to the in the General Counsel’s Office. former member of the High Senior portraits and prints often cost hundreds of dollars. Emergency Responder Safety County in 1987 as the Prior to joining WSSC, Monica Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Graduation announcements, thank-you notes and postage – Institute, as well as with the Accounting Officer responsible was Delegation Counsel to the (HIDTA) Law Enforcement could be $100-plus. Regional Education Service for CAFR reporting and manag - Montgomery County House Committee, and also served on Senior class dues. Agency in Martinsburg, West ing Accounting Division opera - Delegation. She is also a former the Steering Committee for the Yearbooks can run $35 to $85, plus additional fees if you take Virginia. tions, Ms. Francis was Law Clerk with the Baltimore joint Prince George’s and out a congratulatory ad. In 2003, Interim Chief employed by Legal Services City State’s Attorney’s Office. Montgomery County Gang Class rings – different styles often run $100 to $500 or more. Bashoor was recognized by the Corporation and held several Monica is a magna cum Prevention Task Force. Cap and gown – usually $25 to $50. Maryland Police Training positions ranging from compli - laude graduate of the University Interim Chief Magaw comes Graduation gift and party – it's up to you to manage expecta - Commission as an Incident ance auditor and IT Director to of Maryland. She holds a Law from a family with a long tradi - tions. Command System subject-mat - the Manager of the Grants and Degree from Boston University tion of law enforcement ser - You want to ensure your child has a memorable senior year, but ter-expert. He has achieved Budget Unit. Her professional and a Masters in Business vice. He has been married for not at the expense of your overall budget. Before the school year State of Maryland and National career began as a staff auditor Administration from Johns 29 years and is the father of begins, create a senior-year budget and get your kid involved in the Pro-Board certification as a Fire for the Washington Office of Hopkins University. Monica is four children and has one tough decisions, prioritizing expenses from vital to non-essential. Officer IV, Fire Instructor III, Deloitte, Haskins, and Sells. a member of the Maryland Bar, grandson. Learning the importance of setting and sticking to a budget is a and Fire Inspector I. Her prior work experience District of Columbia Bar, and Samuel E. Wynkoop, Jr., valuable life lesson for your kids. Concurrent to his emergency spans thirty-four years in the Federal Bar. She serves on the Director, Department of If you need help making a budget, numerous online tools are management duties in West private and public sector and board of directors at The Environmental Resources available online at sites such as the U.S. Financial Literacy and Virginia, Interim Chief Bashoor includes financial management, Training Source -- a nonprofit (DER): Education Commission's MyMoney.gov (www.mymoney.gov), has also served for the past three accounting, grants, financial training and employment place - Samuel E. Wynkoop, Jr., the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (www.nfcc.org) years as a consultant with the reporting, auditing, regulatory ment assistance organization was appointed as Acting and Practical Money Skills for Life United States Veterans work, contract reviews, and and Tara’s House Animal Director of the Department of (www.practicalmoneyskills.com), a free personal financial Administration Central Office budgeting. Rescue. Environmental Resources in management program run by Visa Inc. in Washington, DC, to assist She holds a Bachelor of Mark A. Magaw, Chief of December 2010. He has over Jason Alderman directs Visa's financial education programs. with the development of conti - Science degree in Accounting Police: 40 years of Federal, State, local To participate in a free, online Financial Literacy and Education nuity plans and National from Howard University and is Interim Chief of Police Mark government, and private sector Summit on April 4, 2011, go to Incident Management System a Certified Public Accountant. A. Magaw is a twenty-seven experience. www.practicalmoneyskills.com/summit2011. implementation throughout the Thomas M. Himler, Director, year veteran of the Prince Mr. Wynkoop began his Veterans Administration. Office of Management and George’s County Police career in Prince George’s Interim Chief Bashoor also Budget: Department. He grew up in County as a teacher in 1967 and served as a member of FEMA's Thomas M. Himler was Prince George’s County and then worked in various County Technology Transfer Working appointed as Acting Director of attended Bowie High School. A government positions including Group. the Office of Management and graduate of James Madison County Council Administrator Eric C. Brown, Director, Budget in December 2010. He University with a degree in from 1971-1988. Mr. Wynkoop Department of Housing and has over 20 years of State and Education, he was a four-year also served as Chief of Staff to Community Development: local government finance expe - member of the University foot - Congressman Steny Hoyer Eric C. Brown was named rience. ball team and was named “All from 1991-1993, returning to Acting Director of the Prior to his appointment, Mr. American” by the Associated Prince George’s County Department of Housing and Himler was the Managing Press in his senior year. Interim Government as Director of the LiveLive SSmart.mart. LLiveive GGreen.reen. Community Development in Member of the Municipal Chief Magaw also received a Department of Environmental March 2011. Group, LLC, a public advisory Masters Degree in Management Resources from 1995-2003. “GreenGrreeen” SSingle-familyingle-fafamily BBEACHEAACCH hhomesomes Mr. Brown has over 30 years firm between August 2006 and from Johns Hopkins University Mr. Wynkoop has earned an of experience working with var - December 2010. Mr. Himler in 2008. undergraduate degree from * fromfrom ONLYONLLYY $199,900199,900 ious governmental entities. He has also served as Director, Interim Chief Magaw started Frostburg State University, has over 25 years of senior level Office of Management and his law enforcement career with graduate degree from Catholic administrative and supervisory Budget, for Prince George’s the United States Secret Service University of America. He is a by experience in the affordable County between June 2003 and Uniform Division serving two lifelong resident of Prince multifamily housing arena. Mr. August 2006. He joined the years before joining the Prince George’s County, now residing VVisitisit us ttodayoday and see whwhyy our SSuperuper EEnergynergy EEfficientfficient homhomesmes Brown has served as Executive County in 1999 as a legislative George’s County Police in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. aarere the smarsmartesttestest choicchoicee fforor YYourour NNewew BBeacheach HHome!ome! Director of the Meridian analyst in the Office of the Department where he is a high - Mr. Wynkoop is married to //PEN4HURSDAYTHROUGH-ONDAYsAMTOPMORBYAPPOINTMENTPEN4HURSDAY THROUGH -ONDAY s AM TO PM OR BY APPOINTMENT (Mississippi) Housing Authority County Executive before ly decorated and well respected Sunday Jay Wynkoop, and is VVisitisit UUSIN-ILTON $ELAWARESIN -ILTON $ELAWARE oorr ccallall 302.645.7948 and Annapolis Housing becoming the Associate Budget commander known for his the father of Daniel Wynkoop www.WindstoneDE.comwww.WindstoneDE.com Authority. He has served as Director in July 2001. integrity, vision and community and Carrie Neuman and grand - )NFORMATIONSUBJECTTOCHANGE3EEACOMMUNITYREPRESENTATIVEFORFURTHERDETAILS)NFORMATIONSUBJECT TO CHANGE 3EE A COMMUNITYREPRESENTATIVEFOR FURTHER DETAILS Deputy Executive Director of Prior to that, he worked as a involvement. Interim Chief father to Jari and Samantha. a4 — May 26 — June 1, 2011 — The Prince George’s Post CommeNTary

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We can -- and we must -- develop a credible 1965 because most seniors were unable to pur - deficit reduction plan that is comprehensive and chase health insurance at any price. Today, considers all options. A credible budget plan, 185,700 Maryland seniors and people with dis - Child watch however, does not hurt the weakest, most vulner - abilities rely on Medicare and Medicaid for their able Americans. health care needs, including nursing home care. by Marion Wright Edelman Unfortunately, the House of Representatives To attack such successful programs is to try and has passed a budget plan developed by undo the progress we have made in creating the Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin that I largest, most secure middle class in the world. It believe does just that by turning Medicare into a also risks putting seniors at the mercy of private voucher program and Medicaid into a block grant insurance companies. Voting Rights Under Attack program to the states. Congressman Ryan also I will fight to make sure Medicare remains a has called for reducing the marginal tax rate for guaranteed benefit for seniors and the disabled so At the signing of the historic 21 million people, don’t have a We can’t afford to remain millionaires while taxing middle-income that they can continue to have access to health Voting Rights Act on August 6, current photo ID—including 15 silent—or ignorant—about the Americans at the same rate as the richest care. I also will fight any plan to block grant 1965 striking down the dis - percent of low-income eligible overt and covert ways some Americans. Medicaid, a program for our nation’s most vul - criminatory practices many voters, 18 percent of young eli - states are trying to restrict I believe Congressman Ryan’s plan will do lit - nerable Americans, including those who depend states had put in place to pro - gible voters, and 25 percent of access to voting rights and their tle to reduce our deficit and will result in a dwin - on it for nursing home care. I believe that if we hibit Blacks from exercising Black eligible voters. College potential “vast consequences” dling tax base. I also believe his proposal – in turn Medicaid into a block grant, it will ultimate - their right to vote, President students are among the voters for undermining voting rights the end –will ultimately kill Medicare and ly cease to exist. Lyndon B. Johnson said, who would be affected in states and choosing our leaders. Medicaid, two of the most important programs in We have a real opportunity with the FY 2012 “Today is a triumph for free - like Texas and Wisconsin that Although proposals pending in our nation’s history. A credible plan must put all budget to chart a more responsible fiscal path for dom as huge as any victory that are considering denying their many state legislatures have not spending – including defense, discretionary and our nation. But we must do it in a way that pre - has ever been won on any bat - student ID photo cards as valid yet become law, it is crucial for mandatory – on the table, along with genuine tax serves important programs that American fami - tlefield.” Many Americans forms of identification. leaders and citizens to wake up, reform that raises additional revenues by closing lies depend upon and that invests in our nation’s think of the fight for voting Requirements for state- speak up, and be ever vigilant. loopholes and simplifying the tax code. future. rights as a struggle that was set - issued photo ID are just one of As he signed the 1965 Voting As we evaluate the Ryan budget plan, we must President Obama is right when he says we tled once and for all during the the modern ways voting rights Rights Act with Dr. Martin remember that Medicare, along with Social must “out educate, out build and out compete” if Civil Rights Movement in that are being threatened, including Luther King, Jr. and other civil Security, helped create the middle class of the our nation is to remain a world leader in the 21st celebrated “triumph for free - laws in several states disenfran - rights leaders at his side, 20th Century. Congress created Medicare in Century. dom,” and is now a piece of his - chising people who have com - President Johnson stated he had tory. But that’s a dangerous mitted crimes after they have long believed “this right to vote assumption. While the Voting completed their sentences. The is the basic right without which Rights Act and other federal Advancement Project’s Right all others are meaningless. It voting laws prohibit discrimi - to Vote Initiative explains that gives people, people as individ - nation based on race, sex, lan - they are continually trying to uals, control over their own To Be Equal guage, ethnicity, religion, and stop many other kinds of threats destinies.” We must not go age, there is still no law that on a widespread scale: backwards and we must ensure Marc Morial, President and CEO affirmatively guarantees citi - “Democracy advocates literally that the next election is not mis - zens the right to vote. Just as we have to monitor and negotiate chievously undermined by National Urban League are experiencing a quiet but with thousands of local juris - making it more difficult for systematic rise in school segre - dictions over issues such as millions to vote. gation across the country, many how missing information on Marian Wright Edelman is people don’t realize that there is voter registration forms is han - President of the Children's once again a quiet but systemat - dled, when and under what cir - Defense Fund whose Leave No National Urban League “Jobs Rebuild ic movement that would deny cumstances voters are ‘purged,’ Child Behind® mission is to many African Americans and i.e., removed from the rolls, ensure every child a Healthy America” Tour Comes to New England other American citizens the what types of election equip - Start, a Head Start, a Fair ability to vote with 21st century ment are used and how that Start, a Safe Start and a Moral There are risks and costs to a program of calls for immediate investments in education, job versions of old exclusionary equipment is allocated among Start in life and successful pas - action, but they are far less than the long-range training, teen employment, and direct job cre - practices. precincts and how poll workers sage to adulthood with the help risks and costs of comfortable inaction." ation in cities and states. The report states, The Advancement Project is are trained.” As they sum it up, of caring families and commu - american President and New England native, “available evidence suggests that the most effec - a civil rights law, policy, and “Without a federal guarantee of nities. For more information go John F. Kennedy tive options for creating jobs, in the short- and communications “action tank” the right to vote, states use their to www.childrensdefense.org. This week, May 16-18, I am taking the long-term, are investing in infrastructure and whose work includes fighting control over this basic citizen - Mrs. Edelman's Child Watch National Urban league’s war on unemployment building the skills of the current and future work - to protect the right to vote. In ship right in a patchwork quilt Column also appears each on the road for the second time this year. after force. Tax cuts and business subsidies on the their new report What’s Wrong of arbitrary rules with vast con - week on The Huffington Post conducting our first “jobs tour” in Indiana back other hand, do little to create jobs in the short- With This Picture?, they warn sequences for close elections.” and Change.org. in april, we are making New England the next run, and are not the most effective approaches to that proposals being considered stop in a year-long campaign spotlighting urban generating growth over the long-term.” by nearly two-thirds of the communities that have been hit especially hard Our visit to New England includes a Monday states to require photo identifi - The Prince george’s Post by the great recession. with the help of Urban employment symposium at the University of cation for voting are threaten - league affiliates in Massachusetts, Rhode Island Rhode Island; a Tuesday job fair at the Naismith ing to become a modern-day The Prince George’s Post and Connecticut, we are visiting neighborhoods Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, version of the Jim Crow-era P.O. Box 1001 15207 Marlboro Pike and job sites, conducting job fairs and forums Massachusetts, and a wednesday tour of the poll tax, and are “a reactionary Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-3151 and giving people struggling with unemployment workplace, Inc., a successful job training organi - trend that is part of the largest Phone 301-627-0900 Legal Fax • 301-627-6260 a chance to have their voices heard. In commu - zation in Bridgeport, Connecticut. legislative effort to scale back Editorial Fax • 301-627-8147 nity dialogues, we are discussing the National we will be hosted by the presidents of five voting rights in a century.” As Contents © 2011, The Prince George’s Post Urban league’s 12-point Jobs Rebuild america New England Urban league affiliates – Darnell they explain, “These photo ID proposals stand to create sec - plan and encouraging citizens to suggest other l. williams of the Urban league of Eastern Publisher Subscriptions ways to bring jobs back to New England cities. Massachusetts, Dennis B. langley of the Urban ond-class citizenship for class - Legusta Floyd Anna Curry Introduced earlier this year, the Jobs Rebuild league of Rhode Island, Henry M. Thomas III of es of voters, particularly racial minorities, senior citizens, General Manager/ Editor america plan offers a dozen imaginative strate - the Urban league of Springfield, adrienne w. Legal Advertising Manager Legusta Floyd gies to rescue those most profoundly affected by Cochrane of the Urban league of Greater young voters, people with dis - Brenda Boice the on-going economic emergency and to address Hartford, and valerie Schultz-wilson of the abilities, immigrants, the work - ing poor and students, who are Legal Advertising Assistant Web Manager many of the underlying causes behind the reces - Urban league of Southern Connecticut. Robin Boerckel Kyler Quesenberry sion’s inordinate impact on the communities while our New England jobs tour is a three- disproportionately less likely to served by Urban league affiliates, including day affair, we will be returning to Boston July have current state ID or face many in New England. 27-30 for the annual National Urban league con - substantial hurdles to getting Prince George’s County, Md. Member National Newspaper Publishers association, and the Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia Press association. according to a 2010 report by the Political ference where we will again highlight our Jobs one, who stand to be turned away or denied a regular bal - The Prince George’s Post (ISSN 10532226) is published every Thursday Economy Research Institute (PERI), of the Rebuild america plan and focus the nation’s by the New Prince George’s Post Inc., 15207 Marlboro Pike, lot.” A recent New York Times University of Massachusetts, amherst, 348,000 attention on the jobs crisis in urban america. Upper Marlboro, Md. 20772-3151. New England jobs were lost from December of To register for the conference visit: editorial on the same threat Subscription rate: 25 cents per single copy; $15 per year; 2007 to November, 2009. Tens of thousands of http://www.nul.org/conference/. To read our cited a survey by the Brennan $7.50 senior citizens and students; out of county add $1; out of state add $2. New Englanders also lost homes due to the fore - Jobs Rebuild america plan visit Center for Justice at New York Periodical postage paid at Southern Md. 20790. closure crisis. The PERI report echoes the Jobs http://www.nul.org/content/12-step-blue - University School of Law that Postmaster, send address changes to Prince George’s Post, P.O. Box 1001, Rebuild america approach to job creation which print-jobs-plan. found 11 percent of citizens, or Upper Marlboro, Md. 20772-3151. May 26 — June 1, 2011 — The Prince George’s Post —a5 buSiNeSS

Business Exchange County Council Approves Baker’s by William Reed Appointments to WSSC and WSTC The New Black Awakening You get your freedom by let - instead of continuing to allow By PRESS OFFICER approval by the governing bod - American Insurance Agents, the corporate secretary of the ting your enemy know that you’ll White peoples’ interest to deter - County Executive’s Office ies of the two counties (Code Society for Human Resource University, manages the affairs do anything to get it - Malcolm X mine our agenda, Blacks need to Public Utilities Article, secs. Management and the National of the Board of Trustees, and So, where were all Malcolm’s take a “timeout” from the main - Upper Marlboro, MD the 16-101 through 29-107). Association of Health plans all official University fans on Thursday, May 19, when stream and make time to make a Prince George’s County The WSTC is a bi-county Underwriters. functions. She has also served the faithful celebrated the 86th difference in our own communi - Council approved County commission that provides plan - Mr. Lawson graduated with as Acting President of the anniversary of his birth? Each ties. If we continue to blend in, Executive Rushern L. Baker, ning and oversight for mass a Bachelor of Science degree in University, as well as Vice year, people dedicated to the our race will literally rot in the III’s nominees to the transit services in Montgomery Business Administration from President for Human Resource principles Malcolm X champi - ghettoes of America. Whether Washington Suburban Sanitary and Prince George’s counties. Saint Augustine’s College. Management. oned gather in Westchester you live on Malcolm X Commission (WSSC) and the The seven-member commission MELANIE HARTWIG- Early in her career, Ms. County, New York at his Boulevard, or in a gated commu - Washington Suburban Transit is composed of two representa - DAVIS Hampshire-Cowan served as Ferncliff Cemetery gravesite, nity, it’s time to represent descen - Commission (WSTC). tives from each county, two Melanie Hartwig-Davis, a Assistant District Attorney in although many profess to dants of the slave trade against Christopher Lawson and members appointed by the resident of Cheverly, and cur - Philadelphia, later relocating to embrace Malcolm’s teachings, the injustices that destroyed Melanie Hartwig-Davis were Governor of Maryland, and one rently Principal at HD Squared Washington DC to begin a long the sad truth is that the actual Blacks and their forbearers’ lives. confirmed as the two new member appointed by the Architects, LLC, possesses out - and successful career in District number of practitioners are few. Isn’t it time that concerned Black Prince George’s County repre - Maryland Secretary of standing qualifications and government. She worked as a It’s regrettable that so few Black Americans admit that nothing is sentatives on the Board of Transportation or her designee. expertise. Ms. Davis works Congressional lobbyist, an Americans define “freedom” the improving for us under this sys - Commissioners of WSSC for a Within Montgomery and Prince directly with homeowners, attorney-advisor, and a regula - way that Malcolm did. African tem? This system was built term of four years. Artis George's counties, the committees and contractors to tory enforcement administrator. Americans have fallen prey and based on Blacks providing free Hampshire-Cowan was con - Commission acts as the finan - improve existing built environ - Over 12 years, Ms. Hampshire- acceptable of America’s institu - labor. It’s also time we each firmed to serve on the WSTC cial conduit for funding of mass ments. Cowan held a series of impor - tional racism. In America and demonstrated on behalf of the for a term of four years. Ms. transportation projects. It coor - Her projects include interior tant positions in DC, including every country that benefitted off descendants of slaves and against Hampshire-Cowan’s appoint - dinates mass transit programs and exterior renovations that Chief of the Office of the backs of slaves, descendants the U.S. government for its com - ment also includes the responsi - with the two county govern - address client need, as well as Compliance in the Department of slaves continue to allow them - plicity in the slave trade and the bility of serving as an alternate ments, the Washington budget and environmental sen - of Consumer and Regulatory selves to be held at bay regarding impoverishment, misery, distress, member on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit sibility, by improving energy Affairs, Senior reparations. and bigotry that continues to this Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and the Maryland efficiency. Careful selection of Advisor/Attorney Advisor to Ask yourself: “If Malcolm day. Authority (WMATA) Board. Department of Transportation. materials for maximum indoor the City Administrator, and were alive today, would he be Isn’t it time to make the “I want to thank the County Biographies of Appointees air quality, recyclability and Deputy Mayor for Economic “for” or “against” reparations? American and European govern - Council for approving these CHRISTOPHER LAWSON durability are features that Ms. Development. Ms. Hampshire- Or, if you are a “Mainstreamer” ments accountable for stealing fantastic individuals,” said Mr. Lawson, a resident of Davis includes in her designs to Cowan also served as special ask yourself if “the freedom” human beings off of the continent Baker. “Christopher Lawson Upper Marlboro, is President promote sustainable and counsel to Prince George’s Malcolm spoke of was “freedom of Africa and enslaving them for and Melanie Hartwig-Davis and Principal Broker of healthy living. County Executive Wayne Curry to associate and assimilate with 400 years? The debt from that both bring years of experience Insuraty Inc., a full-service She graduated from during the successful negotia - Whites?” There needs to be an period is simple: more than 100 and dedication to WSSC. Artis employee benefits firm offering Mississippi State University tions over the relocation of the awakening among those Blacks million Blacks lost their lives, at Hampshire-Cowan has a wealth health insurance, life insurance, with a Bachelor of Architecture Washington Redskins to the with mainstream mindsets about the same time; White-run nations of knowledge and is a consum - retirement plans, and flexible degree and was awarded the County. She has also previously the importance of reasoning and that acquired wealth and power mate community advocate. She spending account plans to Alpha Rho Chi Medal for lead - been a commissioner on the rallying for reparations compen - from one generation to the next will be a great addition to the small, mid-size and large group ership and service. Some of her WSSC. sation. Until now, Blacks have continued to thrive; while slaves WSTC and WMATA Board. I employers. Insuraty provides professional affiliations include Ms. Hampshire-Cowan was allowed themselves to be bam - and their descendants lived in am grateful for the roles that one on one consultative service the American Institute of recently named one of boozled by an illusion of inclu - wretched chattel squalor. Sadly, these individuals will play in to business owners, benefit Architects, Committee on the Washingtonian Magazine’s sion in American society. most Blacks seem satisfied with providing vital services to our coordinators, CFOs and Environment, U.S. Green “100 Most Powerful Women” Mainstream forces keep most this status quo. community and the entire employees. Building Council, and Green and was given the publication’s Blacks’ minds off the daily doses Newly awakened Blacks Washington region.” Before becoming a business Building Institute, to name a “Power 150—People Who of racism they experience and could be an enabling force during WSSC is the eighth largest owner, Mr. Lawson was few. Make Things Happen” award. cause us to focus the energy we the upcoming months and years water and wastewater utility in Regional Manager for Cigna Very active in the communi - In 2008, the Washington should be using toward our free - by scheduling local lectures and the nation, serving nearly 1.8 Healthcare, Mid Atlantic. He ty, she is a member of the New Business Journal bestowed dom on the symbolism of keep - study groups on reparations. The million residents and approxi - also worked for American Hope Academy Board of upon her its Women Who Mean ing Obama in the White House. Exodus Two movement’s goal mately 460,000 customer Express Corporate Services in a Directors. New Hope Academy Business Award. Instead of striving toward the seeks passage of a bill for repara - accounts in Prince George’s and sales capacity. During his time is a private international school Ms. Hampshire-Cowan is freedoms Malcolm sought, tions. Toward that end, Exodus Montgomery counties over an at American Express, he led his for pre-kindergarten through active in her community and is “Mainstream Blacks” are happy Two is mounting two public ral - area of nearly 1,000 square sales team to achieve numerous high school. She is a member a member of numerous civic to entrust traditional institutions lies: the first on June 15, begin - miles. It operates and maintains accolades and awards. He has of Cheverly United Methodist and professional organizations, to look out for our interests. ning at 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., in eight water and wastewater also worked for Carlson Church where she has served on including the Prince George’s Given the frightening state of front of The United Nations in plants, more than 5,500 miles of Companies as Regional Vice the Staff Parish Relations, County Public Schools affairs in the White world, main - New York City. fresh water pipeline and nearly President and as Sales Nominations, Trustees and Business Advisory Committee, stream oriented Blacks have to The second rally will be held 5,400 miles of sewer pipeline. Representative at McGraw Hill. Outreach Committees. the Girl Scouts, and the admit that nothing is improving on June 20, beginning at 6:00 WSSC currently employs Mr. Lawson extends his ded - In 2010 she was appointed Maryland State Women’s for Black people in general. Just a.m. until 5:00 p.m., on the steps approximately 1,500 people. ication to excellent customer by Governor O’Malley to serve Heritage Foundation. Ms. when “Black Mainstreamers” of U.S. Capitol. It’s time to get The Commission has six mem - service to his clients and his on the Maryland State Board of Hampshire-Cowan graduated thought it was safe to sneak out on the list. E-mail: Yehudah ben bers: three from Montgomery community. He was recognized Certified Interior Designers. with honors from Morris Brown of the struggle, a movement Yaacov at [email protected] County; three from Prince as the Prince George’s County ARTIS HAMPSHIRE- College with a degree in called Exodus Two emerged. The or Tziona Yisrael at George's County. Each county's Boys and Girls Club Man of the COWAN Business Management and movement promotes a new phi - [email protected]. members are named to four- Year in 2003. He is a former A resident of Mitchellville, earned a Juris Doctor degree losophy for Blacks “to rise up year terms by the County member of the Prince George’s Ms. Hampshire-Cowan is cur - from Temple University Law and act in our own behalf.” (William Reed is available for Executive with County Council County Chamber of Commerce rently Senior Vice President Center in Philadelphia, Our current level of “empow - speaking/seminar projects via consent. The Commission's Board of Directors, the and Secretary at Howard Pennsylvania. erment” is not working for us, so BaileyGroup.org) annual budget is subject to joint National Association of African University, where she serves as

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"BRIDESMAIDS" still live in a huge apartment in GaTEwaY aRTS CENTER @ BRENTwOOD B Manhattan and wear designer 3901 Rhode Island avenue, Brentwood, MD Rated R for a lot of harsh clothes, and her unluckiness at profanity, some gross-out love would be fixed once she let aRTIST TalK: humor, a lot of vulgar dia - her hair down and quit wearing Curator/Sculptor ledelle Moe, and artists ashley lyon, May logue, some strong sexuality eyeglasses. Not Annie. Annie's wilson and lu Zhang from the "BODY" Exhibit played for laughs. forced to share a small apart - Saturday, May 28, 2:00-4:00pm 2 hrs., 5 min. ment with a grotesque 39th Street Gallery Corridor Space Englishman (Matt Lucas) and entrance on 39th Street "Bridesmaids" is so funny, his even more grotesque sister Programs and exhibitions at the 39th Street Gallery are gener - and has so many It's about time! (Rebel Wilson), while working ously supported by the M-NCPPC Department of Parks & qualities to it, that you can eas - part-time at a jewelry store Recreation, arts and Cultural Heritage Division. ily overlook the fact that it's too owned by a family friend. long and has too many dan - Barely able to pay her bills, she Tom Kenyon & Ronnie Spiewak: Juxtapose gling, underdeveloped threads. may have to move back in with Date and Time: Tuesday, april 12-Monday, May 23, week - It's miraculous that the movie her mom (the late Jill PHOTO BY ROTTEN TOMaTOES days 8:30 am-5 pm and during events This spring, Universal Pictures and producer Judd Apatow exists at all, never mind Clayburgh, in her final film Event Description: Kenyon’s cartoonish woodcuts of fast cars (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) invite you to experi - whether its execution is flaw - role). As for romance, she has a pair with Spiewak’s elegantly colorful floral and landscape col - ence Bridesmaids. Kristen Wiig leads the cast as Annie, a less. "sex buddy" arrangement with a lages. maid of honor. The film is a starring vehicle smug jerk named Ted (Jon ages: all ages Fee: FREE for "Saturday Night Live's" cur - Hamm), whose booty calls she location: Publick Playhouse rent funniest female, Kristen dutifully answers no matter Anyway, Annie must also that are true to their characters. now contend with the other The director is Paul Feig, who 5445 landover Road, Cheverly 20784 Wiig, a gifted comic actress how late the hour. Information: 301-277-1710; TTY 301-277-0312 who can play smart, dumb, Then Annie's best friend bridesmaids: Rita (Wendi knows a thing or two about McLendon-Covey), a frazzled character-based comedy and the ugly, and pretty with equal dex - since childhood, Lillian (Maya Senior Days at the Sportsplex terity. She wrote the screenplay Rudolph), gets engaged, and and burnt-out housewife; Becca humor of humiliation: He creat - (Ellie Kemper), a naive newly - ed "Freaks and Geeks" and has Date & Time: Mondays, wednesdays, & Fridays, 8 am-12 noon with her old sketch-and-improv Annie is appointed maid of Description: Seniors (Prince George's County residents only) are pal Annie Mumolo (who plays honor. Though she's genuinely wed; and Megan (Melissa directed episodes of "Arrested McCarthy), the butch and Development," "The Office," allowed FREE use of both the fitness center and pool during her seatmate in the soon-to-be- happy for her friend, the timing these times. famous airplane scene), having could hardly be worse. Annie rowdy sister of Lillian's hus - "Bored to Death," "Parks and band-to-be. Rita and Becca, at Recreation," and "Nurse Cost: FREE ages: 60 & up been urged to do so by Judd can't afford all the expensive location: Prince George's Sports & learning Complex Apatow, who liked what Wiig nonsense that goes into being a opposite ends of the "wife" Jackie." spectrum, provide balance to But now let us mention the 8001 Sheriff Road, landover 20785 did with her brief screen time in maid of honor, and she's not in Contact: 301-583-2400; TTY 301-583-2483 "Knocked Up." Apatow, known the mood to have mushy, giddy the ensemble but don't get much problems. The film feels much for running a schlubby boys' love rubbed in her face. Things to do in the story. Megan, longer than it needs to be (the though -- played with all-out Apatow curse), and there are THE BMa PRESENTS JaZZ IN THE SCUlPTURE GaR - club, wanted to produce some - become more vexing when she DEN CONCERTS—MUSIC + aRT IN PERFECT HaRMONY thing with a female ensemble. meets Helen (Rose Byrne), the insane gusto by the ridiculously remnants of what I assume are Whether Wiig and Mumolo's super-rich wife of Lillian's funny Melissa McCarthy -- deleted plot threads that don't proves highly valuable in get - go anywhere. The stuff with BalTIMORE, MD (april 21, 2011)—Join fellow jazz enthusi - sensibilities naturally meshed fiance's boss and one of asts for the BMa’s popular Jazz in the Sculpture Garden summer with his or whether he wielded Lillian's bridesmaids. This ting Annie out of her funk. Annie's weird roommates does - As all of this is going on, n't really work; they're absurd concert series. This one-of-a-kind summer event features region - some creative influence as the Helen person has really latched al and national talents performing against a stunning backdrop of film's producer, I don't know, on to Lillian in the few months Annie meets a new man, a kind - characters in a movie that is ly police officer named Rhodes otherwise grounded in reality, modern art in the Museum’s renowned Sculpture Garden. This but "Bridesmaids" feels very she's known her, and now Annie year the concert series includes Don Braden featuring vanessa much like something from the feels vulnerable and threatened. (Chris O'Dowd). Annie isn't and their style is at odds with focused on him, though, and everything else. The connection Rubin, Dave Stryker Organ Quintet, Hendrik Meurkens Samba Apatow factory: vulgar, hilari - There are laughs to be mined Jazz Quintet, Tim Green Quintet, and T.K. Blue Quintet featur - ous, sweet, and more than two in the contest of wills between neither is the movie. The movie between Annie's mom and is most interested in showing Alcoholics Anonymous keeps ing allan Harris. These casual concerts take place on select hours long. Annie and Helen: Who can be Saturdays in July and august at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25. Sample Raunchy R-rated comedies the better friend to Lillian while Annie's progress from sad-sack getting mentioned without any to new-lease-on-life. It is there - purpose or payoff. Annie's ten - music clips of this year’s artists will be available in June at artb - have been popular off and on passive-aggressively dissing ma.org. for more than 30 years, but the other?? But where many - not in her romance, not even dency to take out her frustra - almost none of them have been wedding comedies dissolve into in her friendship with Lillian, tions on the customers at the but in her own personal journey jewelry store is belabored, and The BMa provides intimate concert seating and an outdoor bar led by women. We'll save the complete cattiness, this one with sandwiches and drinks for purchase. visitors are invited to discussion about why that is for stays fairly grounded. Annie -- that the movie finds its great - suffers from comedy-sketch- est emotional resonance. itis. More discipline is called bring their own picnics as well. For an extra-special evening, another day; for now let's just and Lillian have a true, deep celebrity chef John Shields’ restaurant Gertrude’s offers say it's about time someone got love for one another, the way Oh, but never mind emotion - for -- tighter editing, more con - al resonance. Is it funny? Good sistent choices, a clearer overall Jazz+Dinner, an elegant three-course meal served on the terrace serious about breaking that best friends do. Helen will ulti - during the concert. Call 410-889-3399 for reservations, but trend! Girls like jokes about sex mately not be able to come heavens, yes. Wiig and vision of what the movie's tone Mumolo, both performers at should be. Those are the things hurry—these tickets sell out quickly as BMa Members receive and poop, too, apparently! And between them -- and hey, guess priority reservations. In addition to the concert, explore the con - it's about time someone made a what? She's not even really try - heart, wrote a screenplay that that often separate a good, gives the actresses ample funny comedy from a truly nection between art and music through the BMa’s pre-concert female-driven movie that ing to. Funny though it may be Twilight Tours at 5 p.m. as part of the tour, gain early entry to explored the way women's to paint the beautiful rich snob opportunity to create vivid, great one. loopy characters, and to explore Like I said, though, it's stun - the Sculpture Garden and enjoy a glass of wine selected by friendships actually work. Or as a one-dimensional villain, Gertrude’s. Tickets for the concert + tour are $35. that addressed the subject of a "Bridesmaids" acknowledges some outrageously fun situa - ning that an R-rated female-dri - tions. There's a scene of bath - ven comedy has been made at friend's impending marriage that Helen has a point of view, Tickets go on sale to the public wednesday, June 15, and are with real humor and truth. Or too, and isn't just a cartoon. room humor that's funnier than all, let alone that it's often most scenes of bathroom humor uproariously funny and centers available in person at the BMa Box Office, by phone at that centered on a woman who's Maybe I'm still reeling from last 800-919-6272, or online at artbma.org. (Service charges apply supposedly going through a week's "Something Borrowed," -- and yes, that's at least partly on believable characters. I hope because it involves a gender not it leads to better things. Curious for phone and online orders.) Concerts usually sell out; advance rough patch of life whose life where the two "best friends" did ticket purchase is strongly recommended. In the event of rain, actually IS pretty screwed up, nothing but tell lies and under - usually associated with that sort thing about "SNL." The show is of thing. Comedy comes from well-known for its funny concerts are held in the BMa’s Meyerhoff auditorium. Call 443- and yet who isn't an object of mine each other the whole time, 573-1701 after 4 p.m. on the day of the concert for updates. complete ridicule, either. but it's refreshing to see a movie juxtaposition, and there's women -- and yet it has never greater contrast between a toilet launched any of those women weather permitting, additional tickets will be released at this In "Bridesmaids," Wiig in which the female leads aren't time. plays Annie, a thirtysomething completely psychotic b-words. and a beautiful woman than to a huge movie career. There's between a toilet and Seth been no female equivalent, so Milwaukee woman whose That shouldn't be too much to This summer’s line-up includes: boyfriend dumped her after her ask, especially in a movie Rogen. There's also a sequence far, of Eddie Murphy or Will aboard an airplane that has all Ferrell or Mike Myers. If JUlY 2 – DON BRaDEN featuring vaNESSa RUBIN business failed. In most movies, aimed at female audiences, and Hailed by The New York Times as “brilliant and assured,” a woman in this situation would yet.... the women cutting loose in one "Bridesmaids" does it for Wiig way or another, always in ways ... well, it's about time. award-wining saxophonist Don Braden is known for his soulful, imaginative notes, as well as being the music supervisor for the ’80s CBS sitcom “The Cosby Show.” Braden partners with pre - Bill Allowing for Greater Washington-Area Soap Box Derby miere vocalist vanessa Rubin, dubbed by Essence magazine as one of the “Diva Nouvelles” due to her mesmerizing voice remi - Hoyer Announces Passage youth from around the National local winner of each division ing classic was created with the niscent of Billie Holiday. of Bill Allowing for Greater Capital Region to compete in will automatically qualify to assistance of President Franklin Washington-Area Soap Box the race. compete with racers from Roosevelt’s New Deal program JUlY 23 – THE DavE STRYKER ORGaN QUINTET Derby Hoyer-Sponsored “I am proud to sponsor the around the world in the 74th the Works Progress Dave Stryker is “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come Resolution Allows for 70th legislation that will allow for All-American Soap Box Derby Administration (WPA). along in recent years,” according to the village voice. Stryker Running of Derby on Capitol 70th Annual Greater in Akron, Ohio on July 23rd. Soap box derby racing in the honed his skills while playing with legendary saxophonist Grounds on June 18 Washington Soap Box Derby, The origin of soap box derby Nation’s Capital has a long and Stanley Turrentine at major festivals, concert halls, and clubs which has been coined as ‘the racing dates back to 1934 when rich tradition as well. In 1938, throughout the world. Now he leads his own quintet to a perfect WASHINGTON, DC – the greatest amateur racing event in a photographer for the Dayton Norman Rocca beat out 223 blend of inventive melody and rhythmic drive. House of Representatives the world,’” said Congressman Daily News, Myron E. Scott, other racers to win the inaugur - approved a resolution spon - Hoyer. “June’s race will be the saw boys racing engineless cars al Greater Washington Soap JUlY 30 – THE HENDRIK MEURKENS SaMBa JaZZ sored by Congressman Steny H. continuation of a proud tradi - down a hill, inspiring him to Box Derby, which was held on QUINTET Hoyer (MD-5) to allow the 70th tion for our country and its cap - organize a race and award the New Hampshire Avenue. Over Often compared to the legendary harmonica player Toots Annual Greater Washington ital, and for all of this year’s winner with a cup. While the seven decades, thousands of the Thielemans, Hendrik Meurkens’ trademark harmonica and vibra - Soap Box Derby to be held on racers who have worked so hard first race took place in Dayton, region’s young people have phone explores the full terrain of Brazilian jazz. after moving to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol preparing for this event, I send OH, in the following years, the come to Washington to take Rio in the early ’80s, Meurkens became a regular performer at on Saturday, June 18, on them my best wishes for a safe venue moved to Akron on their place in a great race and a the popular Rio club, Bar 21, where he met and collaborated Constitution Avenue, NW, and enjoyable competition.” account of the numerous hills. great tradition. The location with several Brazilian performers. He has since recorded over a between New Jersey and On June 18, racers will com - With the hard work of countless has since moved from the origi - dozen albums featuring his distinctive fusion of harmonica and Louisiana Avenues. This is the pete in three divisions: Stock, civic organizations, a perma - nal site on New Hampshire Samba. 20th year Hoyer has sponsored Super Stock, and Masters. The nent track site for the youth rac - Avenue to Capitol Hill. the resolution, which draws May 26 — June 1, 2011 — The Prince George’s Post —a7

The Edge of Sports EARTH TALK - "Would legalizing pot be good for the environment? ” Dear EarthTalk: use generators, diesel storage by DAVE ZIRIN tanks and animal poison to pre - I heard someone say that serve their cache, when the bor - legalizing pot—as Californians der area is surrounded by more How Global Sport Has Declared considered doing last year— than 4 million acres of sensitive would benefit the environment. federal wilderness.” War on Brazil's Poor How would that be? Also, legalizing pot would -- William T., move its production out into the In Chile, it was called the The Brick. It was the many- Portland, OR open, literally, meaning that thousand page economic manifesto of Dictator Augusto growers would no longer need Pinochet, written by "the Chicago Boys" - Chilean exchange It is well known that legaliz - to rack up huge energy costs to students from the University of Chicago. Disciples of the ing pot could have great eco - keep their illegal indoor grow - university's conservative, neoliberal economics professor nomic benefits in California ing operations lit up by artifi - and elsewhere by allowing the cial light. This means that the Milton Friedman, they printed The Brick on "the other 9/11" government to tax it (like it now energy consumption and carbon - September 11th, 1973. As Chile's Presidential palace was does on liquor and cigarettes), footprint of marijuana growers being bombed, "Companero Presidente" Salvador Allende by ending expensive and ongo - would go way down, as the was being murdered, and General Pinochet was assuming ing operations to eradicate it, light the plants need for photo - power, The Brick became Pinochet's economic compass. It and by keeping millions of oth - synthesis could be provided guided the country through two decades of slash and burn erwise innocent and non-vio - more naturally by the sun. privatisation, displacement, and inequality - all in the name lent marijuana offenders out of Yet another green benefit of of "development". already overburdened federal legalizing marijuana would be Today Pinochet is reviled and gone, but The Brick has and state prisons. But what you an end to the destructive eradi - become a default manifesto for much of the globe. Today, it's might not know is that legaliz - cation efforts employed by law most ardent sponsors ironically bear its name as an acronym: ing pot could also pay environ - enforcement at bust sites, where PHOTO BY WIKIPEDIA BRIC. They are Brazil, Russia, India, and China. These mental dividends as well. the crop and the land they are Legalizing pot (left-hand image), some say, would eliminate ambitious nations have established themselves as the future, Nikki Gloudeman, a senior rooted in are sometimes sub - many negative environmental impacts associated with clandes - not only of global economic growth, but as future centres of fellow at Mother Jones maga - jected to harsh chemical herbi - tine growing and illegal smuggling. It would also likely open international sport. They can offer two things that the decay - zine, reports on the change.org cides for expedited removal. the door for the legalization of hemp (right-hand image), a rel - ing, Western powers can no longer provide: massive deficit website that the current system The legalization of pot in the ative of the cannabis plant that can't get you high but could spending and a state police infrastructure to displace, of growing pot—surreptitious U.S. would also likely open the help us sustainably meet a good amount of our fiber and fuel destroy, or disappear anyone who dares stand in their way. growers illegally colonizing door to the legal production of needs. We are seeing this in particularly dramatic form in Brazil. remote forest lands and moving hemp, a variety of the same The country will be hosting both the 2014 World Cup and the pesticides, waste and irrigation Cannabis plant that contains neutral and as such wouldn’t CONTACTS: Change.org, 2016 Summer Olympics. In the 21st century, these sporting tubes into otherwise pristine much lower amounts of the contribute to global warming— www.change.org; Drug Policy events require more than stadiums and hotels. The host coun - ecosystems—is nothing short psychoactive drug, THC. and in fact could help mitigate Alliance, www.drugpolicy.org. try must provide a massive security apparatus, a willingness of a toxic scourge. Legalizing Proponents say hemp could rising temperatures by replac - to crush civil liberties, and the will to create the kind of pot, she says, would clean meet an increasingly larger per - ing chemical-intensive crops EarthTalk® is written and "infrastructure" these games demand. That means not just things up substantially, as the centage of our domestic fiber like cotton and imported fossil edited by Roddy Scheer and growing would both eliminate and fuel needs. Cannabis, the stadiums, but sparkling new stadiums. That means not just fuels like oil and gas. Doug Moss and is a registered the strain on public lands and plant from which marijuana and security, but the latest in anti-terrorist technology. That Of course, one might argue trademark of E - The meet higher standards for the hemp is derived, grows quickly that the best thing for the envi - Environmental Magazine ( means not just new transportation to and from venues, but use and disposal of toxic sub - without the need for excessive ronment would be to stop grow - www.emagazine.com). Send hiding unsightly poverty from those travelling to and from stances. amounts of fertilizer or pesti - ing cannabis altogether. “But questions to: the games. That means a willingness to spend billions of dol - Legalization would also cide (it’s a “weed” after all) and let’s be real: That’s never going [email protected]. lars in the name of creating a playground for international reduce the environmental absorbs carbon dioxide like any to happen,” says Gloudeman. Subscribe: tourism and multi-national sponsors. impacts of smuggling across plant engaged in photosynthe - “In light of that, the next best www.emagazine.com/sub - Every day in the favelas, the slums that surround Brazil's the U.S./Mexico border, says sis. The fiber and fuel derived bet is to make it legal.” scribe. Free Trial Issue: major cities, these international athletic festivals are vividly Gloudeman: “Cartels routinely from hemp would be carbon www.emagazine.com/trial. recalling the ways of The Brick. Amnesty International, the United Nations, and even the International Olympic Committee - fearful of the damage to their "brand", are rais - ing concerns. It's understandable why. This week came a series of troubling tales of the bulldoz - County Executive Rushern Baker Tours County Farms ing and cleansing of the favelas, all in the name of "making By PRESS OFFICER years that the Prince George’s A former tobacco farm that is mote the health, safety, and gen - Brazil ready for the Games". Hundreds of families from County Executive’s Office County Executive himself has being developed into 24 single eral welfare of the State and Favela de Metro find themselves living on rubble with toured our farms to understand family houses. County, and otherwise enhance nowhere to go after a pitiless housing demolition by Prince George’s County Soil firsthand what we do and how The third stop of the tour was their living environment, by Brazilian authorities. By bulldozing homes before families Conservation District and we work with the farmers and at John Isabelle Acres in conserving soil, water, and relat - had the chance to find new housing or be "relocated", the University of Maryland development projects in the Brandywine, a cattle and hay ed resources by controlling and government is in flagrant violation of the most basic con - Extension Hosts County County," explained David farm operated by lifelong Prince preventing soil erosion in order cepts of human rights. Executive and Economic Bourdon, Executive Director, Georgian farmer, Frank DeVille. to preserve natural resources, As the Guardian reported, "Redbrick shacks have been Development Team Prince George's County Soil In 2009, the DeVille family control floods, prevent impair - cracked open by earth-diggers. Streets are covered in a thick Conservation District. ”We applied to preserve their farm ment of dams and reservoirs, carpet of rubble, litter and twisted metal. By night, crack UPPER MARLBORO, MD greatly appreciate County though the Historic Agricultural assist in maintaining the naviga - addicts squat in abandoned shacks, filling sitting rooms with – the Prince George’s County Executive Baker and his Resouce Preserve Program bility of rivers and harbors, pre - empty bottles, filthy mattresses and crack pipes improvised Soil Conservation District and Economic Development Team’s (HARPP), and will be the first serve wildlife, protect the tax time and attention to this critical County farmer to participate in base, and protect the public from plastic cups. The stench of human excrement hangs in University of Maryland part of the Prince George’s the Soil Conservation District’s lands. the air." Extension gave a tour of County County economy.” “Agricultural BMP Revolving “On behalf of my entire fam - One favela resident, Eduardo Freitas said, "it looks like farms to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III The first stop on the tour was Loan Fund.” ily, at John Isabelle Acres, we you are in Iraq or Libya. I don't have any neighbours left. It's and his Economic Development Montpelier Farms in Upper The final stop on the tour was thank Mr. Baker and the entire a ghost town". Team. The tour consisted of Marlboro. The tour group visit - at the P.A. Bowen Farm and staff for coming to visit our Freitas doesn't need a masters from the University of three rural farms and one devel - ed Prince George’s County Soil Creamery in Aquasco, a dairy farm,” said Stephanie DeVille- Chicago to understand what is happening. "The World Cup opment site around the County. Conservation District’s cattle farm belonging Geoffrey Eugene of John Isabelle Acres is on its way and they want this area. I think it is inhumane," “Prince George’s County has “Conservation Farmer of the and Sally Morrell. Their farm Farm. “As minority land own - he said. over 62,000 acres of farmland. Year,” Mike Dunn. Mr. Dunn has been preserved through ers, it has been a struggle for my The Rio housing authority says that this is all in the name That is more than Anne Arundel, incorporates Best Management HARPP and the family has start - ancestors and many minority of "development" and by refurbishing the area, they are Howard, Calvert, and Alleghany Practices (BMP) on this farm ed a dairy operation to produce farmers to obtain many of the offering the favela dwellers, "dignity". Counties” said Baker. “This land that consist of grassed water - cheese on the farm. available resources. However, Maybe something was lost in the translation. Or perhaps and the conservation of it is a ways, ponds, wetland creation, The Prince George’s County my family has been able to a bureaucrat's conception of "dignity" is becoming homeless critical part of our history and cover crops, grade stabilization Soil Conservation District was maintain this land and promote so your neighbourhood can became a parking lot for wealthy future development of the structures, no-till planting, com - established in 1941 under State my generation towards higher soccer fans. And there is more "dignity" on the way. County. I want to thank the Soil posting facilities and field strip law and initially created to assist education and community ser - According to Julio Cesar Condaque, an activist opposing the Conservation District’s for their cropping. the farming community in sav - vice. I am excited about the new levelling of the favelas, "between now and the 2014 World hard work to protect and pro - The second stop was at ing valuable topsoil. Today, the opportunities and programs that Cup, 1.5million families will be removed from their homes mote one of our most vital Hollowtree Farms in Upper mission of the Prince George’s are being presented, and I am across the whole of Brazil." resources, our land.” Marlboro, an urban develop - County Soil Conservation excited about the future for my I spoke with Christopher Gaffney, Visiting Professor at “This is the first time in 30 ment site consisting of 73 acres. District is to protect and pro - children.” Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro and Vice-President of the Associacao Nacional dos Torcedores increases above a certain port for our County employ - such a one-time payment and [National Fans' Association]. Contracts from A 1 threshold and other compen - ees, without negatively our intention to provide suffi - "It's like a freefall into a neo-liberal paradise," he sation-related issues. A one- impacting our long-term cient funding for a one-time said."We are living in cities planned by PR firms and brought of $750, a pledge for COLA’s in the out-years of the agree - time payment would consti - finances. The County Council payment in the Fiscal Year into existence by an authoritarian state in conjunction with ment if General Fund revenue tute a clear showing of sup - communicated its support for 2012 Budget. their corporate partners. These events are giant Trojan hors - es that leave us shocked and awed by their ability to trans - form places and people while instilling parallel governments Kerry from A 1 Army officer serving both Kerry with his honorary doc - an Honorary Doctorate of that use public money to generate private profits. Similar to active duty and in the U.S. torate, Dr. Westerhaus-Renfrow Humane Letters. a military invasion, the only way to successfully occupy the Championship Week on the Army Reserve. conferred honorary doctorates The Honorable Andre country with a mega-event is to bombard people with infor - Entertainment Sports Kerry and his wife of 38 to three other outstanding com - Carson, U.S. Representative mation, get rid of the undesirables, and launch a media cam - Programming Network years, Angela, reside in munity leaders. for Indiana’s Seventh paign that turns alternative voices into anti-patriotic naysay - (ESPN), the cable television Chesapeake, Virginia. They Dr. Westerhaus-Renfrow Congressional District, deliv - ers who hate sport and 'progress'." giant and, TV One. have two adult daughters, Lisa presented Deborah Hearns ered the commencement It's a remarkable journey. Pinochet is now a grotesque Kerry is a native of and LeAnne and one grand - Smith, CEO of the Girl Scouts address. memory, universally disgraced in death. But The Brick Hampton, Virginia, and holds a daughter, Madison. of Central Indiana, with the remains, a millstone around the neck of Latin America. degree in business administra - Kerry’s luminous career and honorary degree of Doctor of Martin University is a pri - Expect a series of protests in Rio as the games approach. And tion from Norfolk State his outstanding talents provide Humane Letters. The Reverend vate, four-year accredited insti - expect them to be dealt with in a way that speaks to the dark - University, as well as a degree a distinguished example to our Melvin J. Jackson, a licensed tution of higher education. This est political traditions of the region. in banking from the American students about how dedication, and ordained gospel minister not-for-profit liberal arts insti - Institute of Banking. Prior to service and wisdom provide the and pastor of Christian Love tution, founded in 1977, pro - [Dave Zirin is the author of “Bad Sports: How Owners his tenure with the CIAA, foundation for success,” said Missionary Baptist Church, vides excellence in educating are Ruining the Games we Love” (Scribner) and just made Kerry served as assistant vice Dr. Westerhaus-Renfrow. “It is received an Honorary and developing all students the new documentary “Not Just a Game.” Receive his col - president of Sovran Bank (now our honor to present to Mr. Doctorate of Theology. Mr. with expertise in serving and Bank of America), Atlantic Kerry this honorary degree and James H. Colon, vice president empowering low income umn every week by emailing [email protected]. National Bank and Systems to have him join us on such an of Toyota product communica - minority and adult learners in Contact him at [email protected].] Management of America. important day.” tions at Toyota Motor Sales a healthy and collegiate envi - Kerry is also a decorated U.S. In addition to presenting (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., received ronment. a8 — May 26 — June 1, 2011 — The Prince George’s Post CouNTy ChurCh direCTory

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