Tales Of Two Cities

While HoCo awaits the commencement of the redevelopment of Columbia Town Center , the action right now is just over the border in AA Co. ...

In the song “ Singin’ the Dinosaur Blues ,” Jerry Jeff Walker observes that “life is mostly attitude and timing.” When it comes to the futur...

Tuesday evening, Mama Wordbones and I were in downtown Kennebunkport scouting out places for dinner. It was a cool New England evening an...

The Wine Bin movie nights have run afoul of the law that prohibits the consumption of alcohol in the parking lot of a liquor store. One of...

Yesterday General Growth Properties announced that they are spinning off thirty of their “B” malls into a newly formed real estate investme...

This video gave me a little cool relief on an otherwise hazy, hot,and humid day. If you like Enya’s song “ Storms in Africa ” you’ll love t...

I’m going to take off for a few days. For the past two and a half years I have posted to this blog practically everyday. I’m overdue for a b...

In HoCo we have curbside recycling of metal, paper, plastic, and yard waste. This September, a test group of HoCo homeowners will also be a...

Earlier this week we learned from HowChow that Wegmans had named Wendy Webster as the General Manager of the Columbia store set to open ...

It really doesn’t seem that long ago that HoCo loco middle schoolers were eagerly awaiting the debut of the Nintendo DSi XL . Peanut had th...

This month the security at HoCo County Council meetings was ratcheted up a notch when an armed HoCo police officer became a regular fixture ...

HoCo is losing a biotech company that started here to New Jersey . Yesterday Celsion Corporation announced plans to move their corporate he...

While it certainly doesn’t compare with Carmeggedon , the closing of College Avenue in Ellicott City is still a pain in the axle for thos...

Today is the first day of HoCo Farm 2 Table Restaurant Weeks . Twenty three HoCo loco restaurants are participating with specially priced di...

Yesterday Peanut and I rode out to the HoCo Fairgrounds to take in the Native American Pow Wow . It was the first time we had attended this...

Recently, when a commenter to this post accused me of being a racist, a friend asked how I felt about it. I responded that I always conside...

Even though we water the impatiens every evening, yesterday, when I got home around five, they were gasping for more water.   Fortunatel...

HoCo loco blogger TJ Mayotte recently wrote a column for Elkridge Patch where he lamented how I-95 divides his community. “Our sense of c...

The proposed Troy Park Tennis & Sports Center is struggling to come out of the ground. Though the Howard County Tennis Partners hav...

HoCo loco arts blogger, George Clack, was featured in this story by Janene Holzberg in The Sun today. The Columbia resident is the co-aut...