Most Mid-Shore counties have balanced the budget by downsizing local government. Some leaders prefer to reduce services and balance the budget on the backs of taxpayers. Which approach has your county government used?

One of the few increases in the Caroline County 2012 budget is an increase in the retirement fund for firemen. Two of Caroline’s commissioners are life members of their fire companies, Are they feathering their own nests?

In the rush to guarantee that Caroline County’s Hobbs collection site will never reopen, Caroline County’s commissioners sold the loaders used at that site. One sold at auction for $7000, the other brought even less. New loaders of this type sell for $200,000 or more. A motor grader sold by the county public works department at a similar auction a few years ago is still in use by the lucky buyer today. Are the bureaucrats running the show?