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RoCo explores the history of HoCo, looking to uncover the intents and influences — indeed, the idiosyncrasies — that founded this place.

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What It Means to Care: Chief F. Patrick Marlatt of the Station 5 Volunteer Fire Department

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  Author’s Note: Thanks, Robert and Colleen (RoCo) for handing this one over. It has many special meanings to me. I’d never been so nervous to interview someone for rocoinhoco.com (as Robert and Colleen have allowed me to do many times now). I was sitting in my car a couple weeks ago, sweating—because it was August in Maryland…and because I was in the parking lot of the Station 5 Fire Volunteer Fire House, that one near the Giant in River Hill on Signal Bell Lane…about to go in. I’d be talking to F. Patrick Marlatt, the station’s Chief. I insist on showing … Read more

Healthy People, Healthy World: Dr. Scott Berkowitz, M.D. on His Population Health Team at Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Regular readers of this site will know, Colleen and I came to Howard County going on six years ago now. Like the person this article is about, Dr. Scott Berkowitz, M.D., we were drawn to it because it’s just an incredible place. So we decided to stay! Scott’s reasons were similar, but he had some practical issues in mind too. This Syracuse native came here for his Internal Medicine Residency, and like so many before them, he and his family made it their home. What struck me during the hour-plus Scott and I spent at Mad City Coffee was that … Read more

Andrea Nunez, Director of the Office of Human Trafficking Prevention

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I sat in the driver’s seat of the Toyota Prius Robert and I bought. And sat, and sat, and sat. Taillights as far as the eye could see. “There’s so much traffic in Howard County!” I said, out loud. I caught myself. It was a tasteless thing to say. “Come on, Colleen,” I thought to myself. I was complaining about vehicular traffic on my way to meet a woman who works against a much more dreadful kind of traffic–or trafficking, rather: human trafficking. I got to Andrea Nunez’s office shortly thereafter on Patuxent Woods Drive. I sat down for just … Read more

Taking the High Road With Kris J, Chief, Bureau of Highways

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To this day, before I conduct interviews for rocoinhoco.com, I get nervous. And so it was last Monday an hour before I was set to meet Krishnakanth Jagarapu, or Kris J as he is known for short, the Chief of Howard County’s Bureau of Highways. Colleen experiences no such nervousness, probably because she spends an hour before each of her interviews praying, divining, and generally banishing all negativity from her aura (her words!). Alas, I’m no such amateur guru, so I have to rely on more…terrestrial, shall we way, methods of calming myself down–such as the Chocolate Cocoa Waffle at … Read more

The Right to Remain Inclusive With Howard County Police Chief Lisa Myers

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I had met Lisa Myers twice before. But even so, all things “police” intimidate me, so I was a little nervous as I drove up to the Howard County Police Headquarters to talk to her about protecting Howard County. African Violets and pansies were in full bloom alongside the Mediterranean-stye blue tiles on the side of the building. The flags undulating lazily in the spring air almost made me feel like I was at a vacation resort! Still, I couldn’t shake that feeling that probably most people get in law enforcement milieus. I felt like I’d done something wrong. It … Read more

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