https://chestertownspy.org Nonpartisan and Education-based News for Chestertown Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:36:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/op-ed-anything-goes-but-pete-hegseth-may-go-first-by-aubrey-sarvis/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/op-ed-anything-goes-but-pete-hegseth-may-go-first-by-aubrey-sarvis/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:49:10 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=183865 Springtime in Trump’s Washington is a mad, mad, mad world, one without humor, subtlety, or joy.  Washington is now a dangerous and chaotic place to work and live. Just ask the senator from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, who has been among the few Republican senators with the courage to respectfully disagree with President Trump and vote […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/op-ed-anything-goes-but-pete-hegseth-may-go-first-by-aubrey-sarvis/feed/ 5 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/03/op-ed-mayor-and-council-trust-in-you-has-evaporated-by-robert-miller/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/03/op-ed-mayor-and-council-trust-in-you-has-evaporated-by-robert-miller/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:13 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182743 The re-introduction of Chestertown Resolution 06-2023 is more than strange. The resolution is more insult after injury on the citizens of Chestertown inflicted by the Mayor and Council This is the same resolution Mayor David Foster and council members Tom Herz, Jose Medrano and Meghan Efland passed in bad faith in November 2023 to create […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/03/03/op-ed-mayor-and-council-trust-in-you-has-evaporated-by-robert-miller/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/28/l-kent-county-and-a-serious-healthcare-hit-by-tom-timberman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/28/l-kent-county-and-a-serious-healthcare-hit-by-tom-timberman/#comments Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:00:19 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182737 This article focuses on Kent County, but the possibly very damaging Federal  legislation now being considered, if passed, will affect every US county, particularly those in rural areas. On 2/24/25, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution ( H Con Res 14, 119th Congress) that serves as their blueprint for […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/28/l-kent-county-and-a-serious-healthcare-hit-by-tom-timberman/feed/ 1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/19/letter-to-the-editor-making-american-great-again/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/19/letter-to-the-editor-making-american-great-again/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:04 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=182569 The President and his henchmen, full of themselves, began implementing  their agenda at breakneck speed on a freezing January afternoon to install, pardon, and enrich their devoted loyalists. The White House assured the American people their clever and smart disrupters were agents of change and among the very best in our country.  They also promised […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/19/letter-to-the-editor-making-american-great-again/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/09/opinion-seoul-searching-by-tom-timberman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/09/opinion-seoul-searching-by-tom-timberman/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:00:06 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=181277 President Yoon Suk Yeah of the Democratic Republic of Korea (ROK) was elected in 2022.  And for the past two years his frustration has mounted as the Parliament continued to oppose his agenda and to defeat his legislation. The problem is not uncommon in other functioning democracies. His very conservative political party holds a small […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/12/09/opinion-seoul-searching-by-tom-timberman/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/17/a-modest-proposal-seven-obvious-steps-by-gren-whitman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/17/a-modest-proposal-seven-obvious-steps-by-gren-whitman/#comments Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:00:58 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=180040 You’re a former one-term president who’s been indicted by diverse federal and state prosecutors for — ah, let’s see — inciting an insurrection at the Capitol, or perhaps stealing classified documents, or maybe attempting to subvert an election, or possibly paying off a porn star, or perchance falsifying business records, or mayhap sexually attacking a […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/17/a-modest-proposal-seven-obvious-steps-by-gren-whitman/feed/ 4 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/08/america-israel-the-violent-middle-east-enigma-by-tom-timberman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/08/america-israel-the-violent-middle-east-enigma-by-tom-timberman/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:00:54 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=179819 Introduction: It’s useful to have some understanding of what motivates Middle Eastern males to violence and war,  before addressing the current Israel-Iran/HAMAS/Hezbollah conflict and US involvement. Prime Minister (PM) Netanyahu is a Jew, educated at MIT and Harvard and reasons quite differently. Every male born to proletarian parents generally in the rural Middle-East-North-Africa Region (MENA), […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/08/america-israel-the-violent-middle-east-enigma-by-tom-timberman/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/07/does-the-end-justify-the-means-by-bob-moores/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/07/does-the-end-justify-the-means-by-bob-moores/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:00:34 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=179802 One of my puzzlements over the last eight years is why evangelicals prefer Donald Trump. Why do they support a man who is, by almost every measure, antithetical to the teaching of Jesus? Evangelicals believe, I am told, that not only is the Bible the inspired and authoritative word of God, but also that it […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/10/07/does-the-end-justify-the-means-by-bob-moores/feed/ 2 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/28/underappreciated-by-bob-moores/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/28/underappreciated-by-bob-moores/#respond Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:00:05 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=177534 Of the hundreds of women scientists, why am I highlighting these two? One reason is they contributed in areas that hold great interest for me, astronomy and biology, disciplines at opposite ends of the size scale. The other is that they died early (of cancer) and thus became ineligible for the Nobel Prize which by […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/28/underappreciated-by-bob-moores/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/25/israel-hamas-war-the-us-should-completely-change-the-subject/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/25/israel-hamas-war-the-us-should-completely-change-the-subject/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:00:23 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=177452             Introduction. In an earlier Chestertown Spy article (5-26-24) “Understanding the Israeli/Palestinian Animus”, the evolution of Zionism was traced from an ancient prayer for a Jewish homeland to a political movement launched in 1896-97. It acquired powerful British support in 1917 that, after WWII and the Holocaust, led to the founding of Israel in 1948 […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/25/israel-hamas-war-the-us-should-completely-change-the-subject/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/23/when-peace-visited-war-a-christmas-story-by-tom-timberman/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:28:07 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=173251 Americans approach Christmas 2023 in a dark angry environment that has divided millions, even families and friends.  Bethlehem, even Santa Claus and definitely “Silent Night” seem far away and somewhat artificial. Two full scale wars, massive death and destruction in Europe and the Middle East and violence and hate elsewhere have definitely dimmed our Christmas […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/21/a-christmas-carol-2023-by-maria-wood/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/21/a-christmas-carol-2023-by-maria-wood/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:17:52 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/21/a-christmas-carol-2023-by-maria-wood/ Charles Dickens was a darn good writer. Imagine reading A Christmas Carol for the first time—wowie! Thrills, chills, suspense, hilarity, and a villain you love to hate, until he becomes a hero you love to love.  For years, I worked on an ambitious annual stage version of A Christmas Carol at a theatre in New […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/21/a-christmas-carol-2023-by-maria-wood/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/18/the-carbon-darwin-award-by-bob-moores/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:01:49 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/18/the-carbon-darwin-award-by-bob-moores/ “Survival of the fittest” was coined by Herbert Spencer, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, as shorthand for Darwin’s 1859 theory of Natural Selection. A critical feature of Darwin’s theory is that for any species to exist, members of that species must be so well adapted to their environment that they will survive long enough to […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/16/americas-civil-war-of-weaponized-words-and-the-middle-east-by-tom-timberman/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:01:23 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/16/americas-civil-war-of-weaponized-words-and-the-middle-east-by-tom-timberman/ The MAGA conservatives moved away from policy positions as a platform, years ago, when they discovered people’s feelings were more malleable than policy opinions. It took a while, but Parents Rights, LGBTQ+ Attitudes, State Legislatures’ Independence, God’s Christian Politics, and anti-liberty Federal Government as the enemy, became effective political assault nukes.  But, there already existed […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/14/the-missing-history-of-the-chestertown-armory-by-brian-speer/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/14/the-missing-history-of-the-chestertown-armory-by-brian-speer/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:34:06 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=173087 Facts and details do matter—so let’s review those as they pertain to the Sergeant First Class John H. Newnam Armory in Chestertown. A local architect has provided a somewhat thorough review of the Armory’s history online. Unfortunately, some of its dates are incorrect and, more importantly, it ignores what happened with the Armory during the […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/14/the-missing-history-of-the-chestertown-armory-by-brian-speer/feed/ 8 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/10/heres-a-test-can-you-recognize-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-by-maria-grant/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/10/heres-a-test-can-you-recognize-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-by-maria-grant/#comments Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:16:58 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/10/heres-a-test-can-you-recognize-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-by-maria-grant/ I belong to a Great Books Club in Florida. Our current assignment is reading Tartuffe by Moliere, a play written in 1669.  I haven’t attended the meeting yet but have finished reading the play.  I have decided it’s the perfect play to read for “our times.” Why?  Because the similarities between Trump and Tartuffe are […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/10/heres-a-test-can-you-recognize-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-by-maria-grant/feed/ 2 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/09/what-happens-next-to-israel-hamas-palestinians-and-the-us-by-tom-timberman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/09/what-happens-next-to-israel-hamas-palestinians-and-the-us-by-tom-timberman/#comments Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:34:23 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/09/what-happens-next-to-israel-hamas-palestinians-and-the-us-by-tom-timberman/ Given the emerging speculation about what will follow the massive death and destruction visited upon Israel and Gaza since 10/07/23, there is for me, an important fact to be understood: Hamas is not a country.  Introduction: Hamas is a violent movement that encapsulates all Palestinian-Arab anger and rage that began in 1948. During the 74 intervening years, […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/09/what-happens-next-to-israel-hamas-palestinians-and-the-us-by-tom-timberman/feed/ 2 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/12/06/op-ed-by-dr-karen-couch-setting-the-record-straight-on-fall-map-scores/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:45:49 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=172953 The agenda for the Kent County Board of Education’s meeting held Nov. 27 included a presentation on our fall 2023 assessment scores. The reporting in some media outlets on these test scores lacks quite a bit of context and I would like to set the record straight on these assessments and the new strategies we […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/18/america-is-losing-control-of-the-israel-palestinian-global-narrative-by-tom-timberman/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/18/america-is-losing-control-of-the-israel-palestinian-global-narrative-by-tom-timberman/#comments Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:10:22 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/18/america-is-losing-control-of-the-israel-palestinian-global-narrative-by-tom-timberman/ The US Government reacted very quickly after Hamas’s brutal 10/07/23 assault on southern Israel.  From the highest Washington levels, America’s complete support for Israel and its right to defend itself, were repeatedly underscored. And then on 10/17/23, President Biden traveled to Jerusalem/ Tel Aviv to personally reassure the Israeli people, that  America had their back.   […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/18/america-is-losing-control-of-the-israel-palestinian-global-narrative-by-tom-timberman/feed/ 3 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/13/things-to-do-in-a-deer-stand-by-rob-etgen/ https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/13/things-to-do-in-a-deer-stand-by-rob-etgen/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:13:30 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/13/things-to-do-in-a-deer-stand-by-rob-etgen/ I was not born into a hunting family nor did I seek it in my youth.  Rather, after regular invitations from Eastern Shore friends over many years I finally said yes.  After a difficult divorce, I could not stand the thought of sitting indoors alone all winter, and the invitations were from some of my closest and […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/13/things-to-do-in-a-deer-stand-by-rob-etgen/feed/ 1