Tim Rowland

Recent Editorials

• Speed cameras have more to do with money than safety
  There's a football game on today, so we might want to ask Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald what he thinks of traffic speed cameras.
• Bin Laden shows sensitive environmentally conscious side
  Terrorists are green? Who would have known that?
• Mr. O'Keefe, you're not a journalist
  Humorist Sam Levenson wrote a lot about growing up in a New York tenement, where money was scarce, but stories were not.
• Table games isn't a gambling issue, but a money one
  Thinking logically, states would have table games, but no slots or lottery. So, government being government, states have tended to go for lotteries and slots, but no table games.
• Forgotten your password? Hire a hacker
  “Monkey” is the 14th most popular password, according to a mother lode of data that was, well, hacked from RockYou, a company that makes software for users of social networking sites like Facebook and
• New basketball league membership as simple as white and white
  Maybe white men can’t jump, but at least they can bounce pass. That’s the thinking, or what passes for thinking, on the part of Don “Moose” Lewis, who is behind the All-American Basketball Alliance.
• Downtown can be a good place for all generations
  For two decades now, small cities such as Hagerstown have been chasing young people out of the downtown. No skateboarding, no hanging out, no cruising, no congregating, no fun of any kind.
• Television used to be a diversion from reality
  Thousands of angry protesters in multiple cities calling for an end to the tyrannical ruling regime.
• Football announcers not shy to step up and get into a cliche situation
  My favorite thing to do is to watch commercials for muddy pickup trucks and previews of shows with lots of explosions in them.
• Munson-Shank race is about ideology vs. reality
  Del. Christopher B. Shank announced his candidacy for state Senate last week, and immediately some of Western Maryland's leading conservatives lined up and announced their endorsements for Shank's
• America is exporting mental illness
  According to the New York Times, people around the world are now increasingly going nuts in the way that we go nuts.
• Bra color postings could be the downfall of Facebook
  Last week, women across the world were posting their bra colors on Facebook. They didn’t say why.
• Aircraft school could give city back its identity
  Hagerstown still is known as the Hub City, even though the hulking locomotives, freight cars and Pullmans that gave it the name largely exited the scene a half-century ago.
• Water water everywhere until it’s fuel
  When I was a kid, I read two magazines: Popular Mechanics, which made me feel inadequate, and Boys’ Life, which, frankly, weirded me out.
• Chuckles' temperament is no laughing matter
  Most businesses have a policy of listening to the public. I don’t have that policy.
• Snow, snow go away, come again another day
  Editor’s note: Tim Rowland is on vacation, so we do not have a new column to run in this space. Instead, we are running a column that first ran on Monday, Jan. 15, 1996.
• Regional differences emerge as snow falls
  Northerners hate to hear southerners whining about a little bit of snow. Southerners hate to hear northerners whining about southerns whining about a little bit of snow.
• Global warming issue is a climatic game of poker
  I had a difficult time believing in such a thing as acid rain until the balsam forests in the mountains where I like to hike turned brown, and what had been rich fishing holes became sterile pools of
• Rifle course no barrel of laughs
  I like to say that I studied marksmanship under Olympic rifle gold medal winner Ed Etzel. Which I did, just not very successfully. Etzel was coach of West Virginia University’s rifle team when I was