Friday, January 18, 2013
State Delegate Cathy Vitale is asking that families of victims who have died fill out an informational form.
Do you have a family member who died serving their country? The Maryland State Board of Victim Services is holding a statewide memorial service and State Delegate Cathy Vitale (R-District 33A) wants area residents to know the service is being offered and sign up to be recognized. “Cathy [Vitale] wants people in the county to know that it’s available to them and let their friends and family know it is available,” said Kelly Mcney, a legislative aid. According to a press release, the memorial service honors the memory of those Marylanders who lost lives to violent crime and acknowledges the families who have had their lives dramatically changed as a result of someone else’s violent actions. Each year the program includes the reading of the …
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Gov. Martin O'Malley celebrated the achievement at an Anne Arundel County school.
Maryland schools were ranked the best in the nation for the fifth year in a row, according to a study released by Education Week. Gov. Martin O’Malley and other state and local officials celebrated the ranking at Jones Elementary School in Severna Park on Thursday afternoon. “There is no better investment than education,” O’Malley told the crowd at the school. “Thanks to tough choices and important priorities we made Maryland schools No. 1 for the fifth year in a row.” House Speaker Michael Busch (D-Annapolis) and Betty Weller, president of the Maryland State Education Association, also addressed the crowd Thursday. Busch said that he has two daughters in Anne Arundel County Public Schools and he is very proud of that. Click here to read …
Friday, September 28, 2012
Delegate Cathy Vitale has been appointed to the Governor’s Family Violence Council serving Maryland families to determine how to best overcome domestic violence.
Delegate Cathy Vitale (R-District 33A) was appointed this week to serve on Governor Martin O'Malley's Family Violence Council The council works to serve Maryland families in determining how to best overcome domestic violence. “I am pleased to be given this opportunity," Vitale said in a release. "Domestic violence is a serious problem in Maryland. It’s effects on families and particularly children can have long lasting negative implications as they group up and form their own families." Vitale resides in Severna Park and blogs regularly for the Severna Park Patch. She will be one of four state legislators to serve on the council along with other cabinet officials and members of the public. The council aims to study situations resulting …
Dave Williams
11:33 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
If you rate schools as most people do, pupil achievement, Md is not even in the top 10. Just because we spend more per student, allow more beatings and fights in the class room, and grade on a feel good mark rather than test performance, does not land a school in first place except in this trash magazine. more ›