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ON THE SUBJECT OF “MARYLAND’S CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING” (DECEMBER 10TH FEEDBACK FRIDAY)

The non-partisan commission drew up a fair and equitable map with representation across the political spectrum. The self-righteous in Annapolis, who are supposed to be representing all of Maryland, decided to take it upon themselves to stack the deck in their favor representing one ideology and ignore a significant portion of the population. Wake up Maryland! We are better than this. Essentially the system is now rigged. The party which tells you it’s all about fairness and equal opportunity has just stolen that from people in the state and we are now the laughingstock of the country. Well done everyone. Well done.

—Craig Anonsen

Seems greedy to draw a map so obviously designed to get every last seat at every level of government to be held by a Democrat. We wouldn’t stand for a school bus route to be laid out in such a manner or school district boundaries drawn to get all the best athletes assigned to one school.

—Matthew Houser

Since it’s become such a divisive topic, Marylanders should vote on it. I don’t want politicians deciding whether my vote will count or not.

—Jeanne Ramsey

ON THE SUBJECT OF “$4.7M PAID TO COUNTY EMPLOYEES TO GET VACCINATED” (DECEMBER 24TH FEEDBACK FRIDAY)

It is really unfortunate that public sector adults should need to get paid anything to do the responsible thing and get a Covid vaccine. The amount of the incentive is outrageous. Why isn’t the rest of the population getting $1,000 for their vaccines? The payout was unfair and a total waste of taxpayers’ money.

—Lauren Harbom

While I recognize the importance of having a functioning county service system the initiative seems to be misplaced. County employees even more so than the average citizenry should have personal investment in keeping everyone safe from any threat including those posed by the pandemic. Leave time to get vaccinated and special county employee vaccination centers should be sufficient. The funds would be better used to reach out to and assist the underserved and more burdened county residents to enable them to receive vaccination and ultimately this could be more effective in reducing overall spread.

—Charles McNelly

ON “UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY” (JANUARY 2022 ISSUE)

I have enjoyed your magazine for some time and just finished going through the January edition, in which you include an article on Critical Race Theory. You allow the CRT advocate and teacher to mislead readers with a concoction of half-truths, omissions of the truth, invalid assumptions, etc. The author states that CRT is not being taught in our schools, which has been contradicted by news reports and testimony from numerous parents throughout the country. You only asked for response from educators, most of which either agree with CRT or are scared stiff to offer any rebuttals for fear of reprisal, which is what happens in a fascist environment. If you really want balance, ask for input from any of a variety of groups tha are fighting against CRT. This is really scary.

—Bill Carpenter

Thank you very much for your fact-based article on CRT in the January 2022 issue. I found it to be a concise and objective primer on the topic. It will serve as a useful tool for future conversations as I am certain this culture war hot button is not going away any time soon.

Who knew What’s Up? Annapolis magazine was so bold! Thank you for your dedication to journalism.

—C. Gilmore