Cecil County Business Leaders Group Celebrates ’12 Election Wins; Plans Role...
It was a night for crowing a bit about the unanimous success of the five local candidates endorsed for election last year by the Cecil Business Leaders organization but organizers of the group were not...
View ArticleCecil County Sheriff 2014: Political Campaign Season Begins; Trolling for...
A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT The 2014 campaign for Cecil County Sheriff, always a hot political contest, is beginning already, with familiar names, switched party affiliations and some potential...
View ArticleMichael W. Dawson Files for Cecil County Council in Dist. 4- Broomell Seat-...
Michael W. Dawson, a longtime Perryville resident and former candidate for a state delegate’s seat, has filed as a Republican candidate for the Cecil County Council in District 4 for the 2014...
View ArticleEvelyn Potter, Cecil County Elections Director, Retires; A Beacon of...
An Appreciation In the tumultuous and often nasty world of recent Cecil County politics, there has always been one shining light, a beacon of fairness, impartiality and calm in the eye of the local...
View ArticleEJ Pipkin to Resign Senate Seat; Smigiel, Sossi to Contend for Appointment to...
State Sen. E.J. Pipkin of Elkton announced Monday he will resign his 36th District Senate seat, representing Cecil County and three other counties on the Upper Shore, to seek a new career in sports...
View ArticleSteve Arentz, Queen Anne’s Co. Commissioner, Wins Majority GOP Panel Support...
Steve Arentz, president of the Queen Anne’s County Board of Commissioners, has won the endorsement of Republican party committees in three of the four counties of the 36th District to fill a vacant...
View ArticleUpper Shore Politics: Arentz Gets Gov. Nod for Vacant Delegate Seat; Keeping...
News Analysis Gov. Martin O’Malley usually doesn’t come across as a man of few words on any topic, but when he is just carrying out a pro-forma requirement, he can be quite succinct. So it took just...
View ArticleCecil County Politics: Patchell, YMCA Chief, Files for Council Against...
The 2014 Cecil County political contests took an interesting turn this week when George Patchell, executive director of the local YMCA, filed as a Republican candidate for County Council in District 4...
View ArticleCecil (Politics) Chatter: Secret PAC $ Pursued by State; Moore Returns to GOP...
State Threatens Criminal Case against PAC that Paid for other PAC’s Anti-Baynes Flyer Even more than a year after the last election, one of the deepest secrets of the local campaign season—who really...
View ArticleCampaign 2014 Takes to the Towns in Cecil County Council Race
Cecil County Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) launched her election campaign on Monday, touring the county’s towns to hear first-hand the concerns of the municipalities and pledging to give local...
View ArticleSchneckenburger Files for Cecil County Council in Dist. 3; Past Foe of ’3...
Dan Schneckenburger, an engineer and past member of numerous county advisory panels and business groups, filed his candidacy on 1/6/13 for the Cecil County Council seat now held by Michael Dunn (R-3)....
View ArticleSanta Pipkin Fills Smigiel Political Stocking with $6K; Coal for Jacobs,...
It was two days after Christmas, 2013 and all through the Upper Shore, Republican politicos had visions of sugar-daddy plums coming down the chimney with ex-Sen. E.J. Pipkin, who resigned from his seat...
View ArticleUpper Shore Senate: Sossi, Hershey File in Dist 36 GOP Race as $ Shows Local...
Former Del. Dick Sossi has filed his candidacy in the Dist. 36 state Senate race against newly appointed Sen. Steve Hershey, setting up a grudge match replay of the 2010 Republican primary for a...
View ArticleJudge Rules Smigiel Off the Hook to Pay Taxpayers’ $40K Legal Bill for his...
You know it’s going to be an interesting, or circuitous, argument when a legal or political document begins with an 1835 quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville, that astute observer of early America. A...
View ArticleFive Shades of Grey: Broomell Bondage of Cecil County Council–Election Rants...
News Analysis The Cecil County Council has been tied up in knots— some might say a “Five Shades of Grey” political bondage—by recent take-colleagues-as-prisoners attacks by Cecil County Councilor Diana...
View Article‘Good Mike’ Dawson Withdraws from Cecil County Council Race to Unify...
Michael W. “Good Mike” Dawson has withdrawn his candidacy for the Cecil County Council seat now held by Diana Broomell, throwing his support to fellow Republican George Patchell in an effort to unify...
View ArticleCecil County Sheriff Election: ‘Team’ Focus in GOP Primary– Scott Adams...
A Cecil Times Special Report In the 2014 elections for Cecil County Sheriff—always one of the most hotly contested races in local politics—there is a new watchword among the leading candidates in the...
View ArticleCecil County Sheriff Election: ‘Team’ Focus in GOP Primary– Chris Sutton...
A Cecil Times Special Report In the 2014 elections for Cecil County Sheriff—always one of the most hotly contested races in local politics—there is a new watchword among the leading candidates in the...
View ArticleCecil County Campaign $: Patchell, Schneckenburger Raise Quick $ for Council...
New reports to the state Board of Elections by recently-filed candidates for Cecil County offices show that two County Council candidates have quickly assembled substantial campaign warchests while a...
View ArticleCecil County Sheriff Campaign: Adams Tops New Fundraising Report, Sutton Has...
As the Cecil County Sheriff’s race enters the home stretch before the June 24 primary elections, the Republican primary’s leading contenders are neck and neck in campaign finances. But the Scott Adams...
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