find this ironic.
Jersey Shore markets that were suffering from the destruction of Hur-
ricane Sandy. In reality, it's the Jersey shore, particularly the southern
resorts, aggressively targeting Ocean City's market.
profit corporation "whose primary mission is to develop and imple-
ment a full-scale, broad-based, multi-year marketing program for Atlan-
tic City," has been pounding my in box with news of special deals be-
ing offered.
ing the summer months for some time. The same appears to be hap-
pening in other areas, and Atlantic City beat Ocean City to the punch
this week with a major campaign launched offering "special mid-week
packages." The deals are available Sunday through Thursday and offer
significant discounts, such as 30% off all rooms at the Trump Taj Mahal
Casino Resort.
That's a shame because the slow week days are becoming a major
headache for area businesses. A major team marketing concept, such
as what Atlantic City is doing currently, could have an effect. The good
news is word has it Ocean City is considering a similar program.
end in June. Initial concerns were expressed by city officials because
of its proximity to the busy Fourth of July holiday and specifically the
contractors' ability to dismantle the village that is set up for the Dew
Tour on the beach. Those concerns are reportedly being discussed pri-
vately.
able considering all the events that were taking place last weekend
across the shore and the fact this is the third year it's been here.
Ocean City's beach and Boardwalk looked amazing. That sort of tre-
mendous exposure is unquantifiable.
ities. Apparently, the senator has some serious skills, as he was able
to pick nearly 14 pounds of chicken meat in five minutes. That was
good enough to knock off the reigning national Chickin Pickin' title
holder.
City neighborhood. The suspect was later apprehended and found to
be responsible for several vehicle thefts in the area and was wanted in
Anne Arundel County for prescription drug fraud.
the medical professionals who treat-
ed Betty the Ocean Pines Fire De-
partment Ambulance crews, the
wonderful staff from Coastal Hos-
pice, and to all of Betty's friends and
neighbors who cooked, called and
visited.
preciative.
ing a new three-story Oceanfront
Hotel facility in Bethany Beach.
While we think it is great to debate
whether a brand new oceanfront
facility will have a positive or nega-
tive impact on the Quiet Resorts,
some of the arguments and rumors
I have heard about the new three-
story Oceanfront Hotel are just
plain wrong and misleading.
misconceptions.
stories tall and it did not require any
special height adjustments from the
Town of Bethany Beach. Someone
actually told me I was going to build
a six-story high-rise. Can you
believe it?
ing 3-story motel facility. Of course,
because we would be building a
brand new facility, we are happy to
be able to offer a wider range of
newer and more comfortable
amenities.
people think that a new three-story
Oceanfront Hotel facility will in-
crease parking problems in down-
town Bethany Beach. In reality, a
hotel in Bethany Beach must pro-
vide on-site parking for its guests.
Providing on-site parking is part of
the requirements for a three-story
Oceanfront Hotel facility. Our new
facility will provide ample parking for
our guests.
more people to that location then
currently could use the existing ar-
ea. We did an analysis. The Blue
Surf Hotel had 35 rooms and the
Bethany Arms had 50. Because
they were larger rooms than we are
going to build, their maximum load
of people was actually greater
than ours will be in the new hotel.
Oceanfront Hotel facility to be a
positive addition to Bethany Beach.
We have been pleased to develop
properties in the Quiet Resorts be-
fore and look forward to building a
brand new hotel facility that every-
one can be proud of.
drive to bring the parking issue
before the voters, my first thoughts
tee charged with putting to paper
the reasons the Continental Con-
gress had resolved to declare inde-
pendence from Britain turned to
Thomas Jefferson to do its drafting.
If the reasons for that choice weren't
particularly profound Jefferson's
talents as a writer were widely rec-
ognized, and no one thought the
declaration as important as other
pressing revolutionary business
its consequences assuredly were.
Jefferson's work of a few days was
for the ages. John Adams had hand-
ed the writing over to the Virginian
while he led the floor debate over
independence and came to regret
the missed opportunity for glory.But
Jefferson's words were more than
rhetorical theatrics; they laid the
philosophical bedrock of the Amer-
ican republic. In the space of three
magnificent sentences in its pream-
ble, the declaration packs enough
content to fill volumes of treatises
on political theory. In declaring that
"all men are created equal," it insists
that there's no such thing as a natu-
ral ruling class. Put another way, it
tells us, as Jefferson wrote near the
end of his life, "that the mass of
mankind has not been born with
saddles on their backs nor a favored
few booted and spurred, ready to
ride them legitimately by the grace
of God." In spelling out our "unalien-
able right" to "life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness," it anchors our
very humanity in the right to self-
determination. Jefferson amended
the traditional trinity of "life, liberty,
and property" by inserting the pur-
suit of happiness in recognition that
property is only a means to that
larger end. "What is important is the
colonists' liberty to do what they
their lives," historian Robert Web-
king writes.In saying that "govern-
ments are instituted among men" in
order "to secure these rights," it
grounds the authority of govern-
ment in the protection of our free-
dom.Finally, in stipulating that
"whenever any form of government
becomes destructive to these ends,
it is the right of the people to alter or
abolish it," it asserts the right to rev-
olution. The rest of the document
details the long train of abuses by
the British government that justifies
the colonists' assertion of this right.
All of this was a direct steal from the
natural-rights philosophy of John
Locke. These Lockean premises
were so widely accepted among
revolutionary leaders that the pre-
amble which has never lost its
power to awe and to command the
reader's assent was adopted by
the Continental Congress with nary
a peep of protest. "Neither aiming at
originality of principles or senti-
ments," Jefferson later wrote of the
declaration, "it was intended to be
an expression of the American
mind." "All honor to Jefferson," Lin-
coln once proclaimed, "to the man
who, in the concrete pressure of a
struggle for national independence
by a single people, had the cool-
ness, forecast, and capacity to intro-
duce into a merely revolutionary
document, an abstract truth, and so
to embalm it there, that today and in
all coming days, it shall be a rebuke
and a stumbling block to the very
harbingers of reappearing tyranny
and oppression." Amen.
and money over this issue. We all
know this is just a lame attempt by
the condo owner association and
the business up there to keep the
free parking for their guest and
patrons.
Why do we need to waste all this
time and money fighting what will be
a losing cause and they will be pay-
ing anyway? The condo owners
already have free parking that came
with their condos so in reality they
are only trying to keep free parking
for the guest. Well guess what the
free parking is over and they will just
have to learn to adjust.
the way from 120th to 146th streets.
This will help pay for needed im-
provements throughout the city help
balance the budget.
Ocean City