Welcome to our blog
Welcome to the Sun's environmental and Chesapeake Bay weblog. We hope to become your news source for all things bay. In this space, we'll be covering everything from crabbing and oystering to new information about air pollution and how to care for your lawn in the greenest way possible. We also hope to tell you about great bay getaways for spring weekends, good places to launch a canoe and anything else you might want to know about the environment. We'll take your questions, too, and look forward to a lot of dialogue with our readers. Please email us anytime.
And now, a few words about who we are:
Tom Pelton covers the environment for The Baltimore Sun. He's been at The Sun for 10 years, winning several awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, Associated Press and other organizations. He wrote for The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, New Haven Register and Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress before moving to Baltimore. He lives in the Evergreen neighborhood of the city with his wife and two daughters.
Chris Guy, an Eastern Shore native, has covered the region for The Sun since 1998. Prior to opening his one-person bureau in Easton, Chris worked for nearly 10 years as an editor at the paper, including three years as The Sun's Carroll County bureau chief. Before his long career at The Sun, Chris worked as a legislative reporter for the Carroll County Times and covered county government for the Prince George's Journal.
Rona Kobell is The Sun's Chesapeake Bay reporter, a beat that often takes her to the Eastern Shore, Southern Maryland and the Upper Bay. In her seven years with The Sun, she's visited clam farms in Virginia, a peeler pen on Taylors Island and a small market on Smith Island that serves what many people consider the best crab cake in the world (To judge for yourself, head to the Drum Point Market in Tylerton.) When she's not reporting on oysters, crabs and other bay critters, Rona enjoys spending time at her Baltimore home with her husband and daughter.
Tim Wheeler covers growth and development for The Sun. He's been a reporter and editor since 1985, covering the environment, state and local government, science and medicine, higher education and transportation over the years. Before coming to Maryland, he worked for newspapers in Norfolk, Va. and Richmond, Va. and for a news service in Washington, D.C. A native of West Virginia, Tim studied economics at the University of Virginia and earned a master's in journalism from Columbia University.
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Comments
Copy of letter to David Nitkin on his article of 10/21 on Bush and the Bay
Dear Mr. Nitkin:
After reading your article entitled "Bush Supports Fish, Fowl," and the inch-high font for the caption, I would say that the Republicans must be delighted that Bush received so much positive publicity for being pro-environment, for actually doing nothing other than signing a piece of paper. What were the "conservation measures"? An executive order that "encourages" a new declaration is not a law. In the text of your column it says that the executive order "encourages states to declare rockfish and red drum "game fish," but in the photo-op photograph, it says the executive order "protects" them. These statements are not equivalent to each other.
Signing a piece of paper, like talk, is cheap, as is quoting John Smith.
What exactly was contained in the policies for aiding the 800 bird species? A credit-trading system? What exactly did this credit trading system entail? Did he devote any financial support in any budget for this? Is there any money behind this executive order for rockfish and red drum? You are not indicating any political bias by stating whether or not there is funding.
In addition, what do Bush wanting to fish and not catching anything, Laura Bush going to the Cheneys, crab cakes being on the menu, and that Melissa Fischer caught a fish, have anything to do with conservation? This stuff belongs in a society column...
In the future, I hope for more substantial reporting from you and from Ms. Candus Thompson on environmental issues concerning Maryland in connection with Bush's policies.
Sincerely yours,
Laurie Taylor-Mitchell
Posted by: Laurie Taylor-Mitchell | October 21, 2007 1:39 PM