Cecil County Property Values Rise in South County; Home Sellers Benefit,...
Home values rose 9 percent in southern Cecil County and parts of Elkton over the past three years, according to new state property assessments– reflecting a resurging real estate economy in the county...
View ArticleCecil County Council OK’s $140K for Animal Overspending, Questions Cat...
NEWS ANALYSIS The Cecil County Council has approved a $140,000 budget boost in the current fiscal year to cover overspending by the county’s Animal Services agency, despite questions about a massive...
View ArticleCecil County Council Punts, So Far, on Budget; No Public Sessions Before 7/4...
NEWS ANALYSIS In less than an hour on Tuesday (5/28/2019), the County Council reviewed the complex Fiscal 2020 budget proposed by the County Executive, with few questions, no spending cut proposals and...
View ArticleCecil County Council OKs New Budget; Political Tunes Counter Fiscal Harmony
NEWS ANALYSIS “I don’t care too much for money/Money can’t buy me love.”–The Beatles The Cecil County Council voted Tuesday evening (6/4/2019) to approve County Executive Alan McCarthy’s proposed...
View ArticleCecil County Wants 20 Properties Added to Enterprise Zones for Econ...
Cecil County Economic Development officials are asking the County Council to approve a list of 20 properties to be added to Enterprise Zones, which receive property tax breaks and other incentives to...
View ArticleDanielle Hornberger Finally Declares Run for Cecil Co Exec; Invokes Trump,...
NEWS ANALYSIS After many weeks of political teasing, including a fundraiser guessing game about her plans, Danielle Hornberger, wife of a state Delegate, announced her plans to run for Cecil County...
View ArticleEnterprise Zones, Winners/ Losers: Cecil County Council Falters, Ponders,...
NEWS ANALYSIS Which retirement account investment option would you prefer: 100% of $100,000 or 70% of $1 million? Seems like a no-brainer: $100,000 or $700,000 in your later-years pocket. But it took a...
View ArticleCecil County Exec Candidate Forum: Politics, Pauses, Policy; Questions on...
Unlike national political debates in this election year that have often turned into rhetorical slugfests and personal attacks, a candidate’s forum for the four Republican candidates for Cecil County...
View ArticleCecil County Re-opens in Line with Hogan Orders; State Slow to Test Nursing...
Cecil County is re-opening business and social activities to the fullest extent allowed by Gov. Larry Hogan’s limited “Stage One” recovery plan as new hospitalizations for the COVID-19 virus show...
View ArticleInitial Tally in Cecil Co GOP Primary Strongly Favors Hornberger for County...
In the first-ever, mostly mail-in primary election in Cecil County history, political novice Danielle Hornberger held a compelling lead over incumbent Alan McCarthy for County Executive in the...
View ArticleCecil County to Get $9.9 million Biden Windfall; County Exec Budget Cuts...
NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County is about to receive a $9.9 million windfall under the new American Rescue Plan signed into law in March by President Biden but some of County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s...
View ArticleSmoke and Snooker, Promises and Placeholders: Will the Real Cecil County...
NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed Fiscal 2022 budget, which will go before local residents at a public hearing on Thursday (5/20/2021), has become an ever changing...
View ArticleCecil County Council Strikes Out on Ethics Panel, Bond Bill and New $2.1...
NEWS ANALYSIS “And it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out, at the Old Ball Game.” The Cecil County Council stepped up to the legislative plate against the Hornberger administration this week but...
View ArticleDeputies, ‘Transparency’ Advocates Challenge Hornberger at Budget ‘Town...
NEWS ANALYSIS In the past, Cecil County budget hearings usually sounded like polite beg-a-thons, with primarily schools and libraries advocates pleading for funds. But this year, a budget “town hall”...
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