The Baltimore Examiner reports: Baltimore County police are warning residents of a scam by criminals posing as Baltimore Gas and Electric representatives. According to county detectives and BGE security specialists, a woman calls a BGE customer

Here's a sampling of what governments around the country and the globe are doing to their citizens.

Has Baltimore County legalized car theft?

Jeff Beauchamp owes Baltimoreans an explanation about the way the management of WBAL has "disappeared" Chip Franklin and Rob Douglas.

Martin O'Malley quietly proposes raising MD's already scandalous gasoline tax.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm reveals much about himself, none of it positive.

Bits and pieces left over from a week at the shore...

Random observatons about Baltimore and the eastern shore of Maryland.

The case of the disappearing listener comments. Updated May 6.

Six percent decline in Sunday circulation needs to be put in context.

A hundred witnesses, and nobody saw anything. Police spokesman ho-hums it.

Easy to say, if you have never had a friend or relative murdered.

So much for the fresh new voice in town.

Industry is nowhere near the eyesore, or public expense, that overpriced vacation houses have become.

Cummings refuses to give the President the floor for the State of the Union without making his own snarky introductory remarks.

The gun-grabbers are at work again in the formerly Free State. Too bad they do not know what they are talking about.

What the hell, they've all been re-elected.

A Carroll County city council takes a brave step. Expect widespread slander of the entire town to follow shortly.

Day Two, and it appears I did not awaken yesterday in a parallel universe. This will be my final token protest for a while, as we need to focus on "what next?"

Kiss the "Free State" goodbye.

Enough with the campaign phone calls, already!

Maryland, and especially Baltimore County voters need to push for some reforms.

Mary Katherine Ham provides an entertaining six-minute video interview with Michael Steele. Steele is polling well against Cardin, simply by pointing out that in his twenty years in the House of Representatives, Cardin has done virtually nothing. T

Maryland Representative Steny Hoyer has been quite vocal in opposing the common-sense idea of asking people for identification before allowing them to vote. Luckily, other states have had better luck.

Everyone knows he's a jerk anyway