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Poet Truth Thomas

HOCO360   6 HOURS AGO
When Aretha Sings Boilers hush their bubbling Hornets holster stings Twisters cease their troubling When Aretha sings D...

Evening at Lakefest

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New Sixpence Tot Lot Design!

HICKORY RIDGE VILLAGE   8 HOURS AGO
The new design for the replacement of the Sixpence/Buglenote tot lot. Denis Ellis from Columbia Association incorporated r...

HoCoRising Guy Takes the Next Step

THE 53   8:14 AM ON TUE JUN 18 2013
First off, everyone should come to Tom Coale's "Announcement for Ellicott City" tonight.  And he wrote a gr...

Columbia 2.0 under construction

HOCO CONNECT   4:39 AM ON TUE JUN 18 2013
  Everywhere you look these days it seems as if the places we have know since the early days of Columbia are being rem...

It's.... a Maryland Republican Gubernatorial Poll!

THE 53   8:55 PM ON MON JUN 17 2013
In my continuing efforts to bring coverage of the Maryland Gubernatorial Election of 2014 from all 360 degrees of the circl...

The "cavalry" arrive in Howard County

HOCO CONNECT   4:42 AM ON MON JUN 17 2013
   Yesterday biking on the path to Savage Park I noticed what looked like Howard County police on horseback. &nbs...

The Mall goes back to the future

THE 53   8:20 PM ON SUN JUN 16 2013
Last Wednesday I took what I thought was a really cool picture of the deconstructioon/reconstruction at the Mall.  However...

Geezing, 2013 edition

THE 53   12:12 PM ON SUN JUN 16 2013
Happy Father's Day! My birthday is in another month but it's a good opportunity for me to write about, well, me.Â...

The Biggest Conversation going on in Columbia that No...

COLUMBIA COMPASS - BLOG   11:15 AM ON SUN JUN 16 2013
So what’s a really big deal in Columbia today?  Floating islands in Wilde Lake?  Interesting, mildly contro...

Are fathers necessary??

HOCO CONNECT   7:12 AM ON SUN JUN 16 2013
      Happy Fathers Day! OK, I have to admit as a father I sometimes feel under appreciated when it comes to...

Spring in Full Swing

HOCO360   11:11 PM ON SAT JUN 15 2013
In 2013, an unseasonably cold early spring period has further compressed the spring bloom into an even shorter, more cond...

Summer Lakefront movies

HOCO CONNECT   4:15 AM ON SAT JUN 15 2013
     Summer seems to be the time that many thriller movies are released.  For many of us the first summ...

Columbia's 46th Birthday Celebration and Festival of ...

HOCO CONNECT   4:47 AM ON FRI JUN 14 2013
        Somehow the scaled down Columbia birthday celebration makes me fondly remember the old Columbia...

Guzzone for Senate in 13 and the downballot effect

THE 53   9:47 PM ON THU JUN 13 2013
Thursday's Marshmallow Man personal appearance happened, at Guy Guzzone's anouncement at the Pheasant Run Communi...

Derecho 2013 videos now active!

THE 53   5:15 PM ON THU JUN 13 2013
Thanks to those who found that stupidly, good ol' MM mucked up the privacy settings on his videos.   Fear no longer!Â...

MarshmallowManMobile! Activated for full derecho cov...

THE 53   11:21 AM ON THU JUN 13 2013
Was that just wave 1 of the storms that came through about an hour ago?  Really? In order to increase my ability to bring ...

Don’t Say They Never Asked…

HICKORY RIDGE VILLAGE   10:14 AM ON THU JUN 13 2013
Do you pay the Columbia assessment? Have you ever grumbled about how it’s used? Admit it — I know you have. Do ...

Derecho-i-o-i-o-i-o???

THE 53   6:52 AM ON THU JUN 13 2013
There are supposed to be two rounds of thunderstrms today-- one hitting during morning rush hour, and the other hitting dur...

Columbia's most beautiful commute

HOCO CONNECT   5:55 AM ON THU JUN 13 2013
      A while back I blogged on a proposed trail connection between Lake Kittamaqundi and the  Patuxent...

The Fathers of Columbia

COLUMBIA COMPASS - BLOG   7:36 PM ON WED JUN 12 2013
I want to ask all the fathers in Columbia to join me this weekend at the Wilde Lake Village Center.  We have all seen ...

From my yard to the Pacific Ocean

HOCO CONNECT   5:30 AM ON WED JUN 12 2013
   The new stormwater tax has been controversial in some jurisdictions. This tax was passed in the last session o...

The Allan Announcement

THE 53   8:56 PM ON TUE JUN 11 2013
OK, I missed it today.  Unfortunately I had an emergency meeting at work today and I couldn't get out of it.  Defini...

Summer Social

COLUMBIA COMPASS - BLOG   3:31 PM ON TUE JUN 11 2013
Well, I think once again we are here.  Warm temperatures, humidity, torrential rain.  The swimming pools are open...

Rain garden at work

HOCO CONNECT   5:52 AM ON TUE JUN 11 2013
This is what my front yard looked like after a heavy rain.This is what it looked like yesterday with our rain garden after ...

The cop who couldn't make a U-turn

THE 53   9:12 PM ON MON JUN 10 2013
I love the Howard County Police, but this Officer Bendu who turned illegally in Anne Arundel County ought to be ashamed him...

Report of Bobo Letter Raises Troubling Questions

COLUMBIA COMPASS - BLOG   12:43 PM ON MON JUN 10 2013
Last week, Columbia Patch reporter Andrew Metcalf posted an article  relating a letter sent from Maryland State Delega...

Urgent care in 21st Century Columbia

HOCO CONNECT   4:12 AM ON MON JUN 10 2013
      As you ride around our area it is hard not to notice how urgent care centers seem to be popping up all...

Should the nation’s best library go to the mall?

FRANK HECKER   10:18 AM ON SUN JUN 9 2013
Congratulations to the Howard County Library System for being selected the 2013 library of the year by Gale and Library Jou...

Greek burgers on grill

HOCO CONNECT   4:49 AM ON SAT JUN 8 2013
    With the rain from Tropical Storm Andrea passed this weekend seems like a good time to grill some burgers. &n...
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