Articles by Allen Delaney

Article - Bay Reflections; by Allen Delaney - 3/24/11

Bend Over and Say Zzzzzz

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

As my doctor read through my records during my yearly physical, he exhaled a worrisome Hmmmmmmm. That’s never good when you’re visiting a doctor. “Let’s see,” he said. “According to your chart you turned the big Five-Oh this year.” To me, it sounded more like the big Five-Uh-oh. Rubbing his hands together, he peered like a crazed scientist from a bad 1950s sci-fi movie. “When would you...

Article - Correspondence; by Allen Delaney - 11/11/10

The Bay Loves My Lawn

Dear Bay Weekly: At last, my laziness has been given the stamp of approval, at least by the scientists trying to save our precious Chesapeake Bay. An article in the November 8 issue of The Washington Post stated that the largest “crop” around the Chesapeake Bay watershed is lawns, and that the runoff from that crop accounts for eight percent of the nitrogen and 15 percent of the phosphorus entering the Bay. This, of course, comes from the fertilizer that makes lawns look so green...