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Say what you will about Ken Ulman as a politician but somewhere
under that public persona there resides just another smart kid who grew up here.
While he works to adopt a more regional leadership image, his roots were here
and always will be. His HoCo loco fans will celebrate that fact while his HoCo
loco foes will apologize for it. Love him or hate him he’s still our guy.
We decided to jump right in with the exec instead of waiting
for to formally bring him in after the news recap. It didn’t take long for him
to chide me for making light of the marble attack on the speed cam van. “Thankfully
no one was hurt,” he pointed out soberly countering my reckless sarcasm.
Of course he was right. Until Friday’s show I hadn’t
realized that those vans were manned, more often than not according to the
exec. Somebody could get hurt.
Still, I contend that the story of the fifty year old guy
arrested for firing marbles at a HoCo speed van is pretty funny stuff and fair
game for humor. I’m also glad no one got hurt because then it wouldn’t be funny.
As it happens sometimes, we only got to cover about half the
stuff we had on our list to talk about. On the other hand we still managed to cover
election cycles, the school board, the Affordable Care Act, the Downtown Partnership triumphs and travails and the statewide
broadband initiative.
According to Ken the first fiber on the network has already been lit linking UMBC main campus in Catonsville with their newTraining Center Maryland
since the advent of the railroad. The bottom line is that Ken and Ira Levy, his
cyber guru, made this happen. Nice job.
According to Ken the first fiber on the network has already been lit linking UMBC main campus in Catonsville with their new
You can listen to the 69th episode of “and then
there’s that…” here.
