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History may not repeat itself around here, but it sure does rhyme!

Round and round and round we go, where it stops nobody knows! We’ve been taking a bit of a hiatus around here, because there is just too much going on in the world and sometimes it gets, well, a bit heavy. If you don’t follow Humans of New York, please take a minute to read this because we’ve never so identified with a Facebook post before. However, we still have a local community to keep…

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This post will not find you well.....

We’ll start with the good news! Three amazing people have filed to run for the BOE next year! Check them out and please consider supporting them: Casey Day Jess Douglass Chad Wilson Even though each day seems like an eternity lately, next year will be here before we know it! And now for the bad news….. Apologies all around! Heather Fletcher is running again. If you forgot who this now…

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Holy Zeus! We've been doing this for ten years!

As we sat around the Round Table at Yokel Headquarters late last week, your Lady Yokels could hardly believe that 10 years had lapsed since we began this endeavor. In celebration of this milestone anniversary we will like to take you on a stroll down memory lane. Not sure that everyone does, so we are going to retell it! 10 years ago, after reading this LTE,…

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How much are we willing to put up with around here?

Yeah, what about that?! If you haven’t paid attention to all the budget troubles going on around here..welcome to the terrible party. In the next few weeks the budget for FCPS is going to be voted on, and we need to make sure that our schools get what they need to educate our children. We’ll let a good friend of the Yokel explain it to y’all: The most important duty of local government is to…

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The Kids Strike Back: Some thoughts on tonight's BOE meeting!

Several alert readers messaged your Lady Yokels to instruct us to tune in to the board meeting. Colt Black was getting his ass handed to him for his insensitive, and frankly stupid, comments about some students in our schools. We encourage all who didn’t see it, to go back and watch it as soon as it’s posted on their site. You’ll have to mire through Heather Fletcher telling you in the name of…

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Our In and Out List of 2024! We did our best!

INOUTDreadHopeRecognizing past patterns in elections and not ignoring them!Hoping that everything will just work itself out!Teaching kids and adults how to spot fake news!Believing that people know how to sort through all the crap on the internet!Not giving up!Buying our heads in the sand!Finding better role models!Fanboying over oligarchs! 

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Our Top 5 Posts of 2024! Let's see if we can identify a pattern!

We’ve been through a lot this year Yokels! But like the dumpster above we are going to have to find some way to plant a dumb little smile on our faces and solider on! You may see a pattern with our top five posts this year! Coming it at #5: 5. Let’s Armchair Quarterback Those Primary Election Results: Let’s Armchair Quarterback the primary election results! In this post we had a lot to…

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Fine! We will talk about the election!

Keep repeating, “Everything is fine! Everything is fine!” Usually we are quicker to the chase when it comes to talking about election results. However, we know that our faithful readers will give us some grace on this one. There is a lot to celebrate in our fine state and county. After all, we overwhelmingly voted for Harris, Alsobrooks, and Delaney. So, at least in our little enclave of a…

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It's not okay to vote for Larry Hogan! It really isn't!

Mittens is watching people! We are taking a break from screaming at you about the school board race, to make sure that y’all know all about former Governor Larry Hogan! There’s been two times we’ve been on this man’s side.First of all, whenever he and Dan Cox went at it, no matter what the issue because Dan is always on the wrong side of everything forever, amen. And secondly, at the beginning…

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It's time to get real about the BOE election!

No more hiding Muffin! We’ve been yelling to y’all for years about paying attention to the Board of Education race. Every time Cindy Rose threw her proverbial hat into the ring, we’ve been there with sirens and horns warning everyone about the danger of bigoted, anti-education people getting on to the board. This time is no different folks! Thankfully every time enough people in this fine…

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Don't forget to protect our local board of education!

We’ve been taking it a bit easy this summer at Yokel headquarters. But now it’s time for us to step back into the fray! Lots of big news going on! First of all, we finally have a chance to have a woman president! Kamala!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We also want to share with you this meme that pretty much sums up the last few years of American politics: Imagine having to explain the last 8 years…

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A Yokel Stroll Down Memory Lane! Let's check in with that County Council!

Sure wish we saw this before we tuned in this evening! If you’ve been with us since our inception in 2015, then you are well aware that we made it a habit to religiously watch and report on the county council meetings. (Here’s a sampling if you are newer to our blog). We kept a good eye on Kirby, Billy, and Tony and made everyone aware of how they behaved on that council dais. When 2018 rolled…

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Blaine Young can't seem to keep himself out of trouble....

Really…not this again. We are having 2016 flashbacks this evening! Former county commissioner and Frederick County Executive candidate, Blaine Young, has once again found himself on the wrong side of the mug shot camera. An alert reader send us this link this evening: Domestic Battery! For comparison’s sake here’s his 2016 arrest mug shot so you can see how far he’s come. Before sharing this…

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Let's Armchair Quarterback the primary election results!

Guilty as charged! We’ve been waiting for the second batch of mail in ballots to arrive before we put our 2 cents in, so forgive our late reply! If you want to peruse the elections results, click here. But who wants to look at boring numbers when you have our very fine analysis?! President Of course both Biden and Trump won, but it tickled the Yokel bone to see that over 3,600 of our local…

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Calling all voters, and we mean all, the BOE primary is just around the corner.

We are going to try our best to do just that for you today! On May 14th you have a very important job to do! And that job is pick the most qualified, compassionate, intelligent people to be a part of our BOE. You get to vote for 3 (there’s thankfully many more than 3 to choose from this year) and 6 get to go on to the general election in November. And remember that your lack of party affiliation…

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We don't need any more fresh hells! A Yokel primer concerning the consequences of elections!

Ever since the birth of this website in 2015, we’ve tried to sound the alarm about the consequences of elections. They have countless unforeseen effects that many folks don’t consider when choosing a candidate. We’ve decided to illustrate this concept through a nice flowchart that hopefully makes it easy to see the connections between elections and their aftermath: WHOOPS! We forgot that…

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What state do we live in again? This legislation will not do!

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever…… In the 9 years we’ve been doing this, we’ve tried to keep our focus on the local scene. There’s only some many hours in the day and so much sanity your Lady Yokels can expend, but sometimes we need to expand our geographic purview. Today we need to talk about some legislation that’s made its way to Annapolis. For as Tip O’Neill liked to say, “All politics is…