A new action plan
The $50 million City Dock Redevelopment is a fantastic plan and the team of Robert Clark at Historic Annapolis along with our elected officials and the dedicated citizens serving on the Action Committee are local heroes. This investment in the city dock redevelopment is exciting and will certainly provide substantial accolades for our city when completed.
With all the excitement encompassing the City Dock investment, my hope is that we, as a community, don’t overlook or lower the priority on the infrastructure investments desperately needed in several of the housing units managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis. Granted, this is a complex issue with municipal and federal oversight entanglements perhaps dictating the need for another action committee.
We could then mobilize a new team of heroes to address this immediate challenge impacting the daily lives of some of our fellow citizens. The City Dock redevelopment challenge and the challenge I have outlined above relating to HACA need not be mutually exclusive. Annapolitans have proven that we are able to identify and successfully overcome multiple challenges to improve and enrich our city and its citizens.
The challenges at HACA sadly include the action steps required to reduce the daily use of nebulizers by children due to the poor environmental conditions in some of their homes — a challenge I submit is worthwhile for an additional, energized Action Committee.
CHRISTOPHER R. McCLEARY
Annapolis
No censure
Censure is a road not to be taken (The Capital, Jan. 19). Censure or in this case, appeasement is not a middle-ground solution. It is a fool’s proposition. Ask Neville Chamberlain how that worked out with Germany. Bullies love appeasers.
But President Donald Trump’s actions don’t rise to the level of impeachment, his supporters and appeasers assert.
Ask Crystal Mason who was sentenced to five years for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election when by Texas law she wasn’t eligible to vote while still under probation for a felony. Five years for a vote that wasn’t counted. While a president seeks to undermine our entire democratic process. Let’s slap his hand and censure him.
The one-time America’s pastime, baseball, may still offer some model of hope. After caught illegally stealing baseball signs, the Houston Astros were fined $5 million dollars, lost first and second-round draft choices for two years, and the manager and general manager were suspended for one year and were subsequently fired, all for just cheating in a ball game. Should they have lost their World Series championship?
Let those who want to support and those who want to ignore and appease be relegated to the “See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil” monkeys they will have become. There is still time to write a different history, but not much.
WAYNE BOSWELL
Severna Park
End of Life
This letter is in support of the End of Life Option Act, presented to our Maryland lawmakers on behalf of us, her citizens.
I have watched as a loved one suffered at the end of life, unnecessarily. Many states have this compassionate option available to their citizens. Oregon has had this in its law for 11 years. There have not been the horrible mishaps described by those against this freedom.
It is a mystery to me how it has not already become law here in our state, enlightened as it has been on other issues facing her citizens. Please consider supporting this bill by contacting your Maryland lawmakers.
Legislators, please pass this bill, End of Life Option Act HBO399/SBO311. We are watching!
LINDA GARZON
Arnold
