Your Say

Three county students are vying to be the student member of the county school board. The student elected gets full voting rights — the only student in the country with a say on all school board matters. Do you think students should have a say in all school board votes, including spending priorities?
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No, I don’t think students should have a vote on any of the issues. They are there to learn the workings of our government, not to fight for issues.

Do you believe that light rail, which has stops in Linthicum, Ferndale, Glen Burnie and at BWI, has been a positive or negative addition to north county?
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No project that affects this many is all pro or all con, but there is no doubt that the light rail has made it easier for people from Baltimore to come to the county and get jobs, just like it has made it easier for the unsavory to come to the county and commit crimes of many kinds.

What can we as citizens do to prevent more crimes like the one that took the life of Myra Cason on Jan. 28? What can county government do?

In a state where our right to carry a handgun is denied, we continue to be victimized by thugs and vermin who know that they hold they edge when it comes to confrontation. The courts have adjudicated the question on the responsibility of the police to protect the citizenry and have unequivocally answered the question with an emphatic 'No, the police do not have such a responsibility.'

Negotiations have started to put a question on a statewide ballot that would allow table games at slot machine casinos like the one being built at Arundel Mills mall. Do you think adding table games is the right choice for Maryland?

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This is a no-brainer. It should have been part of the original slots referendum as all the states surrounding Maryland were already raising the bar of their operations to table games in an attempt to hold on the Maryland’s money.