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Way DownstreamIn campaign 2006’s last days, somebody is doing some devious push-pulling for GOP Senate candidate Michael Steele. “Do you favor carrying out medical experiments on unborn babies?” the questioner asks callers, according to blogger Joshua Micah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo. Steele is getting creamed in polls on his handling of issues, but on personality, he is whipping Rep. Ben Cardin 57-28, according to a Washington Post poll … Non-smoking voters get a guide to choosing candidates who support smoke-free environments from the Maryland Group Against Smoker’s Pollution. Get their voter’s guide to see who’s shrouded in smoke and who’s got a clean record: 301-262-3434 …
In Chesapeake waters, baby rockfish didn’t have a good year. The 2006 rockfish juvenile index, a measure of rockfish spawning success, earned a mere 4.3, well below the 53-year average of 12.0. From July through September, DNR biologists collected 561 young-of-year striped bass from 22 survey sites in four major spawning systems: The Upper Bay and the Choptank, Potomac and Nanticoke rivers. This year’s low was most likely due to drought conditions, says DNR, as fry counts from all anadromous fish (migrating into freshwater to spawn) were low this year … In Western Maryland, the third annual Maryland Black Bear Hunt lasted only two days as 451 legal hunters — out of 2,402 who applied for a permit — killed 41 black bears. The bruins weighed an average of 161 pounds, but the largest, taken in Garrett County, weighed 464 pounds. That’s the county where most — 39 bears — were killed; Allegany County lost two bears. In one instance, two Jessup men illegally baited black bears into closer firing range with cookies and cakes; the criminal duo was arrested and will be fined $1,500 if found guilty … In Solomons, Halloween weekend drew Annmarie Garden’s Great Windchime a step closer to official Guinness Book of World Records status. To help create the world’s largest windchime, 2,500 summer visitors donated and designed 2,675 metal lids. Next prominent citizens verified such claims as the number of chimes, size of the display and more for Guinness headquarters in London. Aiding Annmarie in its quest were Del. Tony O’Donnell; County Commissioners Linda Kelley, Wilson Parran and Susan Shaw; Sheriff Mike Evans; and North Beach Mayor Mark Frazer — some dressed for Halloween. Verify for yourself thru November 30 … Our Creature Feature comes from Vermont where, thanks to the state’s 300,000 cows, Green Mountain With every Vermont cow producing an average of 13 gallons of manure daily, the college will have plenty of fuel for its Cow Power program. Students calculate that they will be reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 3,500 tons annually, the equivalent of removing 758 cars from the road. No word on whether they’ve calculated which students will be hauling all that manure to school. |
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You heard it here first: Because of the crush of absentee ballots, election officials are saying privately that we may not know the winner in close elections on Tuesday night — and maybe not for days afterward …
College soon will be living up to its name. That’s because the tiny, 750-student college is switching to vast piles of cow manure to generate electricity.