Topic “Public Safety”

The most important job of a local government is to keep its citizens safe.  When your spouse has a heart attack or your child is choking, you need to know that well-trained paramedics will be there to help as quickly as possible.

This appeared as a Letter to the Editor in the Capital on 3/27/11
and in the Maryland Gazette on 3/26/11

This Letter to the Editor was carried in The Capital on 2/3/11
and in the Maryland Gazette on 2/19/11

It is early morning. As you head into the kitchen for a cup of coffee, you stop to pull a blanket over your son who is sleeping in the living room.

Suddenly, your unlocked front door is kicked down and a dozen masked men in black swarm into the house, screaming and pointing assault rifles threateningly at you. Forced to the ground with a gun to your head, you ask through terrified tears, “who are you?”, but there’s no response. And then you hear a gun fired in the living room. Have terrorists shot your son?