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Re: MD state government - one of the worst in the country. said by BF69:said by SomeDude11 :
Currenty, we are blessed with one of the worst administrations in the history of MD. Nothing surprises me concerning this state and it's current state of affairs.
MD is like the size of many counties. How complicated can it be to run a state that size? MD should just merge with VA or something. You're think of Washington, DC.... I doubt there is any county in TN as big as Maryland.... The largest County in the U.S. is San Bernardino County, CA... It may be larger than Rhode Island, but not Maryland.
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That's really silly... Why does the East have to TAX everything? |
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EPS
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Hingham, MA | Because all our federal taxes go out to subsidize western states, of course... |
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 rcdaileyDragoonflyPremium
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Rialto, CA | reply to jjeffeory
The land area of Marylnad is less than 10,000 sq miles.
»www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108223.html
The land area of San Bernardino County in CA is: 20,160 sq miles. The figure given in the link is not the same as given in a Wikipedia article, but regardless of which figure is used, the area exceeds 20,000 sq miles.
»www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us/facts.htm
I'm pretty sure that if you did a search of counties in the US, including Texas and other counties in CA, you'd find a few more that are larger than the State of Maryland in terms of area. A quick check shows that Inyo County in CA is over 10,000 sq miles in area. That's mostly desert and mountains, which can also be said of San Bernardino County and quite a few other counties in CA.
Of course there are environmental issues in CA that make this dispute in Maryland look trivial. |
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said by EPS:Because all our federal taxes go out to subsidize western states, of course... As a person who has lived all over the United States, What are you talking about? |
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 kyler13Is your fiber grounded?
join:2006-12-12
Arnold, MD | reply to rcdailey
It's not the area which is the problem, but rather the footprint of MD that makes running the fiber so difficult. Not many, if any, counties are spread out like MD. Add to that the Chesapeake Bay splitting it in half makes it difficult to get fiber to the eastern half. Part of this plan put on hold was to run fiber underneath the Bay Bridge. I'm sure the Baltimore/DC corridor is easy to outfit with fiber, and most of it already is with FIOS and Comcast's network. But stretching to the Atlantic and well into the Appalachians is where the task becomes daunting. |
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