Monday, July 9, 2012
Columbia has some big changes in the works, says Howard County Executive Ken Ulman.
Howard County Executive Ken Ulman said on a recent podcast by local bloggers that several projects in the Columbia Town Center should be underway within the year. Ulman told hosts attorney Paul Skalny and real estate agent and blogger Dennis Lane, of the podcast And Then There's That, he hopes Howard County residents will become excited at the sight of construction being done in Columbia's downtown. Do you agree with Ulman? Are you excited about the changes coming to Columbia's downtown? Tell us in comments. "My hope is, in the next six months, we will be under construction with multiple projects in Town Center," Ulman told Lane and Skalny. On the podcast, he listed three specific projects--the "Metropolitan" building, a new retail …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Local blogger Tom Coale enlists the community to help fight homelessness in Howard County.
Local blogger and Columbia Association board member Tom Coale turned his local audience into activists this week and raised $2,500 to help fight homelessness in Howard County. On Monday, Coale kicked off his efforts by posting on his blog, HoCo Rising, a story about how in 2011 he and his readers raised $3,025, which was donated to Grassroots Crisis Prevention Center. The center used the funds to provide a security deposit for a sober house in Howard County. Currently, that house houses four men who are no longer homeless, according to Coale. So Coale let his readers know that a new group called Living in Recovery needs $2,300 by the end of July to open a second sober house. By Tuesday, Coale had already raised $260 from local readers …
Monday, April 2, 2012
Board members voted to retain all 23 outdoor pools, according to one board member.
The Columbia Association board voted 7-2 in support of retaining all 23 of its outdoor pools, in a straw vote during a work session, according to board member Tom Coale. "The Board had a lot of big picture paradigm decisions to make before getting into the decision about whether or not to repurpose any pools," Coale wrote about the recap on his blog, HoCo Rising. Coale said the Board, which met Saturday, classified the pools into three separate groups: neighborhood, community and destination pools, with neighborhood pools seeing the smallest annual visitors. He wrote that the classification is not meant to demote the importance of the smaller pools, but rather to ensure the neighborhood pools stay small for those who want their pool …
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Are bloggers egomaniacs? Local blogger Tom Coale weighs in.
Patch sat down Monday at Eggspectation in Ellicott City with Tom Coale, 29, one of Howard County’s most prominent bloggers and a new member of the Columbia Association Board. Readership has been steadily increasing at his website, HoCo Rising, with about 7,000 to 9,000 hits a month this summer, he said. By day, Coale, a Dorsey's Search resident, is a lawyer working in Baltimore doing security clearance and medical malpractice law. Patch: You’ve done HoCo Rising for two years. Why did you start it? Tom Coale: I guess I was trying to get myself in trouble. [The real reason]: I wanted to make local news interesting. I thought local news, being zoning and taxes and all that stuff, was very bland and not that accessible to someone my age. How …
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