Frederick Maryland Online

A reader (thanks MR) had a great topic suggestion for a Friday-free-for-all: How is the smoking ban going so far? Any restaurant/bar owners or workers out there want to provide their two cents? Any customers happy/mad about the ban so far? What say ye?
~Guy~

This is kind of cool. While sitting around tonight watching the Chargers-Titans game and surfing, the top Digg post was about our beloved Carrol Creek Project.
And speaking about football, how about those Redskins? I kinda enjoyed watching the Redskins fold again under pressure.
~LizFrog~

I noticed today that the News-Post has added a new feature to it’s online Local section.   Who would have thought that the lowest gas prices in Frederick would have warranted it’s own section?  Especially since the lowest gas price as of today is $2.77 at Costco.   I’m glad I got rid of my gas guzzling [...]

I’m not sure what percentage of our readers is over 50 years old, but even if you are younger than that, you may have noticed Most Magazine among the various real estate books and other free publications usually located in the foyers of restaurants or near the exits in grocery stores. Most started out [...]

Here is a great question from a reader:
You guys seem to be the experts on Frederick…. and since tis is the season to be out and about… do you know all the restaurants that kids eat free certain nights of the week?
What does the great collective brain trust out there say?
Also, see Tam’s great question [...]

From an article by Bradley Olson and Josh Mitchell in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun:
Lawmakers should seriously consider adding Frederick County to the locations where slot machine gambling would be allowed under a proposal for a state referendum being weighed by the General Assembly, several delegates suggested yesterday in a brief hearing on the matter.
“This is [...]

I wanted to share this review of Baker Park from a hometown Frederick guy who now lives in San Fran.
It is setup like an old town. Before cars, malls, highways, Olive Garden, track housing, 1 hour commutes, shock jocks, gated communities and the idea of buying a big ass cookie cutter house that you don’t [...]

I’ve been scanning the news looking for something newsworthy to blog about. I don’t know about y’all, but I think this has been a particularly bad few days in Frederick.  Despite all the good things going on, we have had an unprecedented spell of murders, suicides, murder suicides and stabbings.
I’m not going to link to [...]

A snippet from Sunday’s FNP about the expansion of the Fort
Nearly 1,500 new jobs are forecast for Fort Detrick in the next few years and Frederick needs to prepare for them.
About 8,000 people pass through the base gates each day.
A panel of representatives from agencies were on hand Friday at the Frederick County Workforce Development [...]

I was reading this article and this quote got me thinking …
Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most people who live there. If you could read people’s thoughts as they were passing you on the streets, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thought.
So what say [...]