Frederick Foibles
Peter SamuelPolitics in a Maryland country town on the edge of the Washington DC metropolis with special focus on a downtown hotel racket that goes back over a decade. My personal Substack
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The State of our Sidewalks Downtown is...
Don DeArmon recently had fun mocking one of those puff pieces about downtown Frederick written to promote visitor business. Market Street was classed as “one of the 20 most beautiful Main Streets in America.” DeArmon asked rhetorically whet...
X-energy going big time, $700m IPO
Prototype nuke control room in X-energy’s Frederick operator training at Spectrum Drive
X-energy, a leader in developing Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) — with major industrial real estate commitments on the southside of Frederick — is growi...
Frederick County over the 300,000 mark in 2025, up 4,028 or 1.35%
Census Bureau data released Wednesday shows Frederick County’s population at 302,883 mid-2025 a 1.35% increase on the mid-2024 count of 298,855. Annual growth in the County (FredCo) has been slowing year by year: 2021/20 was up 2.84%, 2022/...
Getting a new water service downtown
Our sludgy water was getting sludgier. The bathtub waterline was a reddish brown precipitate. I discussed it with a plumber and a City water guy. The most likely culprit, they both said, was rusting of the inside of the main water service,...
Trump got the Iran call right!
The news today is magnificent! The joint US-Israeli attack on the foul regime in Iran seems to be going beautifully well. I write Saturday evening with the news that Israeli Intelligence had a photograph of the body of Supreme Leader Khamen...
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b UK 1940, education UK/Australia, B Econ Hons U Melb, journalist in Canberra 1965, New York 1980, Washington DC 1982, Frederick MD freelance 1992, toll roads 1996, retired 2013, follow local gov. Into dogs, plants, design, Bach, freedom.
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