"The county schools are in the paper today for considering layoffs. I would suggest that you do like the state employees do and cut back on your raises and also cut back on your steps. Are you getting a raise and step both? A good percent raise and a step, cut that out. That would eliminate a lot of the money. And also, do like we do. I'm a state employee, and you know, take, maybe take some layoff days and take a pay cut instead of getting a raise." - Hagerstown
"I'm calling in about we court-martialed our soldiers in Iraq for simple things like putting a leash on a prisoner, yet here's Jim Warner, the way he was treated in prison in Vietnam - who was court-martialed for mistreating him? Nobody. Turn our men loose." - Hagerstown
"This call is regarding the accidents at the YMCA on Eastern Boulevard. The simplest and most cost-effective resolution may very well be to make the exit from the YMCA right turn only, thereby eliminating the problem of cross traffic and waiting for traffic to clear." - Hagerstown
"Judge Boone has a DUI. At my hearing, he said I was a threat on the highway, that I could have struck a school bus, injuring or killing many students. Judge Boone knows better. ... Our tax dollars pay his salary. He is supposed to be a role model for our children. Take his license away for a year, and send him to AA meetings and health department four times a week for eight months like he gave me." - Clear Spring
"Looks like George Steinbrenner bought himself another World Series. Money talks." - Hagerstown
"I'm calling in reference to the caller from Chewsville, in reference to the New York Yankees and their 27th world championship, and the people wearing the New York Yankee hats and no one wearing the Boston Red Sox hats anymore. I'm an Orioles fan, and until baseball has a real salary cap, you'll continue to see the Yankees buy their way into championships." - Hagerstown
"This is to the callers regarding their subject of prisoners and the treatment of them while incarcerated at the detention center. My point is, the incarceration is their punishment for their crime. Whatever their crime was, they were sent to jail, meaning they are no longer part of society. That's their punishment. To continually punish them while they are incarcerated by taking away certain privileges that are rewarded while being rehabilitated is not only ineffective but inhumane, and punishing the inmate over and over again just breeds hate." - Hagerstown
"Does President Obama think that American people are little children and he can just give us a piece of candy and keep us quiet? If he'd just give everybody a job, give people a job, give us work, we'll buy our own candy, and he won't be going through all this, and he can stay home and take care of other important details in this great big wild country of ours." - Flintstone, Md.
"I agree with getting rid of Gov. O'Malley. He wants to cut state workers' pay, but the inmates get a raise for their jobs in prison. They seem to have more rights than people who actually work an honest living. My husband is a hardworking state employee and gets treated less respect than the inmates. Wake up, O'Malley, and do us all a favor and don't run again." - Hancock
"I think for all we owe our veterans, it would be a wonderful thing if the old Washington County Hospital could become a veterans hospital." - Hagerstown
