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Monday, July 15, 2013

Kevin E. Dayhoff wrote for The Tentacle from June 2005 to July 2013


June 2005 to July 2013, Kevin Dayhoff wrote, http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?myauthor=41, for The Tentacle, http://www.thetentacle.com/, a Frederick County, Maryland based news, opinion, commentary, and public affairs online magazine edited and published by John Ashbury. 

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Kevin Dayhoff is a freelance journalist and artist who was born and raised in Westminster, Carroll County. He is a retired landscape designer, property management consultant and nursery stock farmer. He has served on numerous county and state boards and commissioners since the 1970s as well as six years as an elected official of the City of Westminster, 1999 – 2005.

He has written for The Tentacle since June 22, 2005 and also writes for a number of publications including ExploreCarroll.com, the Carroll County section of the Baltimore Sun.


He writes about government, the environment, art and culture, business, military and agricultural issues.

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Tentacle - Zachary Peters: Where’s the Interest? Why isn’t there more?

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5291 Please enjoy the son of The Honorable Wendi Peters, Mr. Zachary A. Peters' piece in The Tentacle. I'm looking for much more good work from Mr. Peters.


Zachary Peters Biography August 16, 2012
Where’s the Interest? Why isn’t there more? 

Teen Mom, Toddlers in Tiaras, 16 and Pregnant
, and the granddaddy of them all, Jersey Shore are just a few examples of the television shows that dominate the young adult generation these days... 
http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=71
The Tentacle - Zachary Peters: Where’s the Interest? Why isn’t there more?
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Monday, March 19, 2012

GOP still headed for a cliff and other stories of the coming Zombie Apocalypse by Kevin Dayhoff

GOP still headed for a cliff and other stories of the coming Zombie Apocalypse by Kevin Dayhoff


I'm still hearing from folks, literally, from all over the world about, "The kerfuffle was no fluke." It must have struck a nerve.

So far in the presidential election of 2012 the only debate among historians is just which national election in history has the opposition party collectively conducted a more inept campaign to unseat a sitting president?

One of the places i wanted to go when I wrote "The kerfuffle was no fluke," was the 1860 presidential election. Fortunately, on March 16, 2012, TheTentacle writer, Roy Meachum picked-up that portion of the story: “Inevitable GOP Tuesday,” “As Tuesday pointed out, Republicans seem headed for the fate that led to Abraham Lincoln’s election, establishing the party on the American political scene.
In 1860, Democrats ruled the land. Nomination on their ticket was tantamount to a key to the White House. The great favorite was Stephen Douglas, who had defeated Mr. Lincoln for the U.S. Senate two years before. At their convention in Charleston, South Carolina, they went through 55 ballots before adjourning to Baltimore. Mr. Douglas was the winner of a divided party. The pro-slavery Democrats chose Vice President John Breckenridge, of Kentucky…” http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4978

[…]

The idea that the Republican Party is on a great march, en masse, off a cliff, is starting to be discussed in a hushed tone of voice that is only growing louder as November approaches.

Apparently I am not the only political observer to ponder such matters. Nor I am the only person to have the temerity to actually put it in print. Washington Post writer Chris Cillizza wrote at length last Monday, “2012: The Republican party’s Gotham election.”

[…]

“That idea — that the only way to truly rebuild something is for it first bottom out — is one that some within the Republican party have begun to toy with privately as the divisions between its tea party wing and the more establishment/moderate side of the party become more and more apparent.”

Although Mr. Cillizza illustrated it better; every time you hear a Republican say that they will not support a ‘R.I.N.O.’ candidate, please understand that paradoxically you are hearing the voice of a foot soldier for the Democrats in the costume of a Republican. I mean, let me get this straight, you would really rather endure another four more years of President Obama than support a moderate candidate for office.

I would not give a rat’s behind if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton changed parties and won the Republican nomination, the only criteria for the Republican nominee for the presidential election of November 2012 is that he or she have a chance at beating President Obama at the polls.

For pity sake, forget about all the hand wringing and Exorcist-gyrations about how the liberal media is in the tank for President Obama. We get it. Now get over it because there is not a darn thing you are going to do about it - - except message control and party discipline.

And speaking of that, please do not waste anyone’s time over whether or not the media treatment of Mr. Limbaugh utterly stupid attack on Ms. Fluke was fair or unfair.

Of course it is not fair to suggest that Mr. Limbaugh speaks for rank and file Republicans any more than it is fair to suggest that the crude and vulgar attacks on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin by Bill Maher are representative of the run of the mill Democrats.

[…]

The only thing I regret about the piece is that I did not emphasize enough that the entire kerfuffle had nothing to do with the Democrat Party – President Barack Obama talking point, the "war on women." This issue, as Ron Miller said better than me, “is manufactured out of whole cloth by a Leftist messaging apparatus that is breathtaking in its coordination, its scope, and its chutzpah."

This more about the war for the women’s vote…

Nevertheless, I’ve written it before and I will repeat it now: at this point, President Barack Obama could kill a puppy on national TV and still win the election this coming November… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4959

I stand in good company with columnist George Will and especially Peggy Noonan who recently observed, “… the Republican nominee will emerge so bloodied his victory will hardly be worth having; the Republicans are delving into areas so extreme and so off point that by the end Mr. Obama will look like the moderate.”

For other columns by Kevin Dayhoff:

March 14, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Weary taxpayers and consumers, who continue to be frustrated and exhausted by an uncertain future, the ongoing economic malaise, and a ‘new economic normal,’ are in the midst of perpetuating a sea change in how business is conducted in this country.

March 7, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Rush Limbaugh and conservatives could not have looked more like total and complete idiots in the recent national discussions over the private lives of individual Americans than if the liberal media and Democrats had written the script for this Kabuki circular firing squad.

February 29, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
It was a warm day last Thursday as I took a left turn off Tuttle Avenue on to 12th Street in Sarasota (FL) and tried to remember how to get into the Baltimore Orioles spring training parking lot at Ed Smith Stadium.

February 22, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The first day of Baltimore Orioles’ spring training began Sunday when the pitchers and catchers reported for the annual ritual in Sarasota, Florida.

February 15, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
There have been many tragedies of economic malaise in the last five years. Kodak’s recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy seems especially sad; and it is only fitting that we pause for a moment to pay our respects.

February 8, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Now that the Super Bowl is over there may be no better time to focus some attention on the continuing Greek tragedy that is unfolding over in the economic Twilight Zone, known as the Eurozone.

February 1, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Legislation to address how Maryland estate taxes inhibit farmers from passing-down the family farm to succeeding generations has gained some much-needed interest in the current session of the Maryland General Assembly.

January 25, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s fiscal year 2013 state budget, released a week ago, is a full menu of difficult choices. However, one of the most troubling is the lack of funding for police protection and highway user revenue for municipalities.

January 18, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The consensus continues to gather steam that the GOP nomination to challenge President Barack Obama for president this fall will be former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Perhaps all the drama now moves to who will be his choice for vice president.

January 11, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
It is fairly well accepted among keen observers of national politics that the Iowa caucuses of Tuesday a week ago are much more about political and media-theater than a prognosticator of who will vie for the Oval Office this fall.

January 4, 2012
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Next Wednesday, on January 11, the 430th taxing tradition of the Maryland General Assembly opera will once again take center stage.

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20120319 KED seo GOP still headed for a cliff

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Breakfast at the Barbara Fritchie in Frederick with The Tentacle writers was gr8

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Friday, January 06, 2012

Sunday, July 03, 2011

The monthly meeting of www.thetentacle.com writers at the Barbara Fritchie restaurant




The monthly meeting of www.thetentacle.com writers was held Saturday morning, July 2, 2011, at the Barbara Fritchie restaurant, 1513 West Patrick Street, in Frederick, Maryland.  http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41  [20110702 TT Bfast Barbara Fritchie Restaurant] Kevin Dayhoff  http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/7212624137/the-monthly-meeting-of-www-thetentacle-com-writers http://tinyurl.com/3etwhhy




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Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ (http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/http://www.kevindayhoffart.com/ New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff



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Monday, June 20, 2011

In an instant by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

In an instant
| Steve Berryman | By: | 06/17/11 | 516 words  http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_comments_columnist.htm?section=sBerryman&storyID=122530#postComments

The two vehicles accidentally approached each other; both swerved to avoid, unfortunately in the same direction. Some estimates are that the combined impact of a car going 25 mph and a scooter going 15 would be similar to hitting a cement wall at 40....

[...]

Alex "Big Al" Bodroghy's life changed in an instant on the Sunday of the Wegmans grand opening. The community was buzzing over gorgeous weather; a hot air balloon lofted over Dearbought toward Ceresville Mansion, and in Waterside a motor scooter collided head-on with a car.


The two vehicles accidentally approached each other; both swerved to avoid, unfortunately in the same direction. Some estimates are that the combined impact of a car going 25 mph and a scooter going 15 would be similar to hitting a cement wall at 40.


The scooter was a mangled mess; no helmet had been worn.


Later, doctors said it was only "by the grace of God" that his neck had not snapped, but worse, Al suffered severe head trauma...  http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_comments_columnist.htm?section=sBerryman&storyID=122530#postComments






See also: June 20, 2011 Promised to No Man Steven R. Berryman in The Tentacle: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4468

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Steven R. Berryman The Tentacle: Promised to No Man

June 20, 2011

Promised to No Man
My family and I have been living in an “altered state of awareness” since the recent motor scooter accident involving a 19-year-old close family friend, Alex Bodroghy, of Discovery in Walkersville.

He’s one of those children who hangs out with my eldest son and seems to just be another appendage to our clan. He’s been in the ICU of R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center of The University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore for almost two weeks now, and receives 24/7 care to stay alive. He suffered a massive brain injury.

His prognosis is uncertain, and he’s still not always stable.

There’s hope, but everyone involved knows that it will be a very long road to even get him fully stabilized, let alone allow for a semblance of normalcy.

Last Friday The Frederick News-Post ran in my regular Friday column space “In an instant,” which covered the crash and aftermath of the head-on collision, linked here in my blog: In an instant [traumatic brain injury] ...

[...]


See www.CaringBridge.com/visit/AlexBodroghy to follow the story.

To contribute to the family’s massive needs there is a site set up now: “Support Big Al Bodroghy” P.O. Box 103, Walkersville, MD, 21793


Monday, June 06, 2011

American Exceptionalism is Alive! - by Steve Berryman

[American] Exceptionalism is Alive!




[American] Exceptionalism is Alive!


Originally published June 03, 2011
The Frederick News-Post


By Steven R. Berryman
http://mediahooker1.blogspot.com/2011/06/american-exceptionalism-is-alive.html

The concept of "American exceptionalism" is alive but struggling now. Fresh from our past Memorial Day weekend, the uptick in patriotic fervor was welcome, but I know that this will dissipate with the summer heat, as America wrestles with economic despair.


Alexis de Tocqueville is generally credited with the above phrase that he used to describe our uniquely born nation. Americans are different from our counterparts on the other continents. Our spirit and ideology can be construed as a sort of global arrogance, but we were founded with liberty and rugged individualism as our best markers... http://mediahooker1.blogspot.com/2011/06/american-exceptionalism-is-alive.html
 

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Saturday, June 04, 2011

COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post: Exceptionalism is alive


The concept of “American exceptionalism” is alive but struggling now. Fresh from our past Memorial Day weekend, the uptick in patriotic fervor was welcome, but I know that this will dissipate with the summer heat, as America wrestles with economic despair.

Alexis de Tocqueville is generally credited with the above phrase that he used to describe our uniquely born nation. Americans are different from our counterparts on the other continents. Our spirit and ideology can be construed as a sort of global arrogance, but we were founded with liberty and rugged individualism as our best markers.

Originally, with vast lands for farming, mineral richness, and the natural protection of the Atlantic and Pacific, we were born to win as a nation, become strong, and eventually out-compete all other nations on Earth economically……  http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=121975

COMMENTARY by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

[20110603 FNP Berryman Exceptionalism]

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Sunday, September 05, 2010

The Buzz menu for September 4, 2010


The Buzz http://www.thebuzzgreenvalley.com menu for September 4, 2010


The September 2010 monthly meeting The Tentacle http://www.thetentacle.com/ writers was held, this month, at The Buzz, http://www.thebuzzgreenvalley.com 11801 Fingerboard Rd, Monrovia, MD, 21770  301-865-4900  I had the Huevos Rancheros and it was delicious. [20100905 The Buzz menu for 04 September 2010]

Sept2010 monthly mtg http://www.thetentacle.com/ writers was held at The Buzz http://www.thebuzzgreenvalley.com

Restaurants, menus, food, breakfast, The Tentacle, writing, writers,

Journalists Tentaclers, Media The Tentacle, Dayhoff Media The Tentacle, Restaurants The Buzz,


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Friday, July 09, 2010

Nick Diaz Retired math teacher tutors at nonprofit

Nick Diaz Retired math teacher tutors at nonprofit By Nicholas C. Stern News-Post Staff July 09, 2010

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=107114

At the age of 13, Nick Diaz left his native Cuba with his mother in 1960 for the promise of a new life in the United States.

He arrived in Miami, soon accompanied by thousands of other Cuban children fleeing in exile. He found that relying on his foreign compatriots for advice and aid in adapting to life in a new country was key to success.

So when Elizabeth Chung, executive director of LIFE and Discovery, asked him to tutor young students, many of whom are immigrants, he said he could not refuse. Diaz teaches the math classes year-round at the educational nonprofit's offices in Frederick.

"We think of it as an investment in the future," he said… http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=107114

20100709 FNP Nick Diaz Retired math teacher tutors at nonprofit

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Steve Berryman: Just getting started


Frederick News-Post Steve Berryman: Just getting started

Best wishes go out to my fellow Tentacle colleague, Steve Berryman, who is “Just Getting Started” with a weekly column every Friday in the Frederick News-Post.

The column may be found here:. http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=102092

If one cruises through the comments that accompany his column on the News-Post web site, you will realize that this is going to be fun. It appears that there are many folks out there who are quite threatened by the mere idea that Mr. Berryman will be sharing his point of view in the Frederick news and commentary scene.

All the while, please understand that his initial toe-in-the-piranha filled waters that pass for meaningful commentary in central-Maryland these days, hardly states a position. Yet the personal attacks quickly began.

Not much in the way of counter-point or meaningful and welcome fact-filled disagreement. Just hate-filled venomous commentary.

Whatever.

Mr. Berryman begins his column with:

“As we are all in this together, it is my pleasure to write you my introductory column. Mea culpas in advance as this is meant to be explanatory, and not "ruthless self-promotion"! Aspects of my activist roles have made that necessary in the past.

"Each Friday my regular musings on this opinion page will usher in a weekend for you and, I hope, find you then better informed, possibly more enlightened, and certainly more awake for the reading.

"As a citizen-journalist, being selected to have a recurring voice was an honor, and a bit of a surprise, as in the past I have to admit to being something of an "equal opportunity provocateur" in my relations with The
Frederick News-Post. Seems they were listening!

"My comments have appeared in many a columnist's and story writer's in-basket through online capabilities in the electronic versions of this newspaper. Please note that almost all of these comments clearly included my name, as I believe that anonymity confers a certain disrespect for civility..."

[…]


Read his entire column here: Frederick News-Post Steve Berryman: Just getting started - http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_columnist.htm?StoryID=102092 Originally published March 05, 2010

civility anonymous comments, Journalists Berryman Steven, Journalists Tentaclers, Newspapers Frederick News-Post, Politics Civility

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/03/steve-berryman-just-getting-started.html

http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/305804.html

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Amanda Haddaway, and Michael Kurtianyk at The Tentacle breakfast

Joan Aquilino-Mcintyre, Amanda Haddaway, and Michael Kurtianyk at The Tentacle breakfast
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Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoffart.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://www.westgov.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/

Drink Coffee


Drink Coffee. Do stupid things faster with more energy.

Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/wgxea or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/314109754/drink-coffee-do-stupid-things-faster-with-more

I found this sign when a gaggle of The Tentacle writers, otherwise known as The Tentaclers, www.thetentacle.com, roosted for our (January 2nd, 2010) monthly get together breakfast at The Buzz, http://www.thebuzzgreenvalley.com//index.html, and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monrovia-MD/The-Buzz/85435613015?v=wall, 11801 Fingerboard Rd, Monrovia, MD, 21770

[20100102 Tentacler The Buzz (15) coffee] Dayhoff Daily Photoblog, Dayhoff photos, Dayhoff photos words, Food Coffee, Journalists Tentaclers, Restaurants The Buzz

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2010/01/drink-coffee.html http://tinyurl.com/ycpdc5m


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Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoffart.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://www.westgov.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/

Steve Berryman argues with himself


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Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoffart.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://www.westgov.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/