Radio days volume 4

As I hope most of you know, I was on "AM Salisbury" this morning. It's getting to be old hat I guess - I'm not even sure anyone at my workplace listened and that's a shame. Haven't gotten any other feedback either so maybe I didn't plug this appearance enough.

But I thought I did okay, I managed to make most of the points I went in to make. As I expected, a lot of the conversation revolved around the Congressional race, particularly Gilchrest vs. Harris. Obviously Bill wanted a bit of a plug for his upcoming interview with Andy Harris, and I thought it was sort of funny when he's asking me about questions I'd ask Andy. Bill was trying to steal my thunder a little bit but then again it'll be a month or two before I do my Ten Questions.

I did want to add a little bit to the comment about my feelings about environmentalism. Most of my disagreement with Wayne Gilchrest regarding the field comes from his dogged opposition to drilling in ANWR. Yes, I understand that we may only have a finite supply of oil, but placing our economic fate in the hands of a number of countries who frankly are envious of our freedom and standard of living and would love to put the screws to us makes me very nervous. It's bad enough that we have to import gasoline because we cannot refine enough to supply our needs, but if a couple of our main suppliers turn off the spigot we're in a world of hurt thanks to the shortsightedness of people like Gilchrest.

But I also take issue with those who simply place environment over development. Folks, we have a LONG way to go before we've paved the Eastern Shore. And in general I also prefer that development take place in areas with established infrastructure but there are times where the economics are advantageous to open up new areas to development (such as Blackwater.) Unfortunately, we have an administration in Annapolis that swings too far in the anti-development direction, even when regulations are followed.

I thought my most effective portion was talking about what I see the role of government as being - expressing part of the philosophy of monoblogue, which is advocating government that is as close to the people as possible. And it was a pretty good sign that we almost stomped the 7:50 break - he did skip one commercial so I guess I got an extra 30 seconds.

So we'll see what happens and when I'll be in the next time. I like doing Fridays because it's my short workday (I only work 7 to 11), thus I can make up the hour pretty easily. Above all, I like getting the opportunity to introduce my website to more people because I'm still looking for another readership peak. It's been at a pretty decent plateau since the municipal elections (I've kept that level of readership even after the elections and budget fight) but I'd like to get another spurt. Might be tough during the summer but I'm going to try to do so anyway.