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RoCo discovers a community organization whose home is Howard County or whose reach extends into it.

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RoCo discovers a community organization whose home is Howard County or whose reach extends into it.

On Friendship With Latin America With Leslie Salgado

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As I walked into the Starbucks in Wilde Lake Village Center, I thought about how I didn’t have a clear picture of what Leslie Salgado looked like. I was meeting her, the chair of Howard County Friends of Latin American (FoLA), a local advocacy group at 1:00 p.m. Oh, the joys of “Campaign Brain,” as Colleen and I have come to call the phenomenon of being overwhelmed by all there is to do in campaign season. Sure, it was the day after the election, but my head was still spinning, readers! We managed to meet up, of course. But still–I … Read more

On Climate Change, Young Adult Fiction, and More With Ned Tillman

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As much as Colleen and I are loving HoCo, we both think some of the shopping centers look alike to the point that when we hear about one in particular, we both wonder, “Which one is that again?” The establishments that make them up and the people we’ve met in them are one-of-a-kind, nevertheless. This was certainly the case when I borrowed our friends PaCy (Paul and Lucy) Steinberg’s 2018 Honda Civic hybrid while they’re out of town and we’re housesitting, Man–that thing is quiet! I was on my way to meet Ned Tillman. RoCo (us) first encountered Ned at … Read more

Bagels and Banter With Max Crownover, Chair of the Steering Committee, PFLAG

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Dear HoCo Diary, If Howard County needed to select a delegate to represent the area at a National Convention of Awesomeness, I, Colleen Morgenthau, would nominate Max Crownover to represent us. We met at Bagel Bin in River Hill Shopping Center to discuss his work as a leader of the Howard County chapter of PFLAG, one of the oldest and most influential LGBT advocacy groups in the country and the county. And that is what I thought as I sat down with our sandwiches, that no wonder Max is the head of an organization that’s all about caring and compassion. … Read more

On Howard County Dads With Josh Benson

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I suggested Josh Benson and I meet at Uncle Julio’s to talk about the group he started last month that ‘s already a success, Howard County Dads (HCD). Uncle Julio’s is a large restaurant in downtown Columbia, but that place is undergoing so much change that, despite the restaurant’s size, it can be challenging to find. That’s especially true when the two people trying to find it are brand new (me, Colleen) and relatively new (Benson) to the area. With a couple phone calls and pinned locations sent to each other Benson and I managed to do it, however. I … Read more

Josh Tulkin: A Sandwich, a Tea, and a Lesson In Environmental Policy

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They say that olfaction, the sense of smell, is the most evocative of all. When a certain scent, fragrance, or odor descends upon you, the way it rips you from the present and deposits you back into your past can be almost disturbing in its power. So it was for me as I ambled down Maryland’s Route 1 in the rented Ford Focus I took to meet Josh Tulkin, Director of The Sierra Club Maryland Chapter (SCMC), at that organization’s headquarters in College Park, Maryland. The vaguely subway-ish aroma combined with that of frying food took me right back to … Read more

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