I look forward to reading Dr. Ernst's latest take on, what has to be, about the most ineffective federal effort since the "war on drugs." Correction. I think we started trying to clean up the Bay BEFORE the war on drugs started.

A highly deserving local environmental charity here in Kent County has two executives from the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the EPA speaking here on Sunday. They are going to tell the people how they will "help the State to regulate and get volunteers involved". (Fire the commissioners and hire the "volunteers".) Are we just throwing more money at bureaucrats? Has the MdDE ever been here when storm water is running into the Chester River? Local planning commissions and citizens are left to fight this fight on our own. What will be different? These people come over here and talk to us like we never stuck a toe in the Chesapeake Bay and never took any chemistry, physics, math or anything. They have been completely and utterly useless to locals. This is where the rubber meets the road...or more aptly, where the silt meets the Bay. What will the new measures of effectiveness and efficiency be, or will there even be any? What money will trickle down to locals? We need an interstate highway type program for the Bay that implements the new and retrofits the old with well known state of the art best management practices. THIS is how we can get our area working again.

I say fire those people ASAP, disband the commission(s) and hire Ernst at three times what the USNA pays him to be the Bob Moses of Chesapeake Bay restoration. We need to pay him more than O"Malley and Coach Williams combined. We need one czar not this cumbersome committee thing. The commission(s) are dinosaurs that cannot respond here in the late stages of this tragedy.

Clearly decisions have been made in fashion lately. Witnsess the emergency financial bailouts. Who in their right mind trusts these people Chesapeake Bay clean up any more? Seriously.