Frederick Local Yokel

A measuring rod to test text books, and reference books in schools, colleges and libraries : Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Cover title

For today’s “rhyming with history” lesson we bring to you a 1920 pamphlet entitled “A Measuring Rod” that was distributed to promote the Lost Cause narrative of the Civil War. A discredited interpretation that these conversative groups are trying to take us back to. archive.org/details/meas...

History may not repeat itself around here, but it sure does rhyme! Round and round and round we go, where it stops nobody knows! We’ve been taking a bit of a hiatus around here, because there is just too much going on in the world and sometimes it gets, well…

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Who wants to tell her?

This post will not find you well….. We’ll start with the good news! Three amazing people have filed to run for the BOE next year! Check them out and please consider supporting them: Casey Day Jess Douglass Chad Wilson Even thou…

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Holy Zeus! We’ve been doing this for ten years! As we sat around the Round Table at Yokel Headquarters late last week, your Lady Yokels could hardly believe that 10 years had lapsed since we began this endeavor. In celebration of this milestone …

We have an anniversary to celebrate! fredericklocalyokel.com/2025/04/08/h...

How much are we willing to put up with around here? Yeah, what about that?! If you haven’t paid attention to all the budget troubles going on around here..welcome to the terrible party. In the next few weeks the budget for FCPS is going to be …

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The Kids Strike Back: Some thoughts on tonight’s BOE meeting! Several alert readers messaged your Lady Yokels to instruct us to tune in to the board meeting. Colt Black was getting his ass handed to him for his insensitive, and frankly stupid, comments about …

We watched tonight’s BOE meeting and had some thoughts: fredericklocalyokel.com/2025/01/22/t...

Brennan, Black renew fight against gender identity policy After a month in office, Frederick County Board of Education members Jaime Brennan and Colt Black are renewing a fight against a districtwide gender identity policy.

Remember we told y’all to keep an eye on the new school board. Nonsense is already afoot! www.fredericknewspost.com/news/educati...

Why do we have to choose?

Our In and Out List of 2024! We did our best! We’ve been doing this for over a decade, and hands down this was the hardest one to assemble! INOUTDreadHopeRecognizing past patterns in elections and not ignoring them!Hoping that everything will …

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Our Top 5 Posts of 2024! Let’s see if we can identify a pattern! We’ve been through a lot this year Yokels! But like the dumpster above we are going to have to find some way to plant a dumb little smile on our faces and solider on! You may see a pattern wi…

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Fine! We will talk about the election! Keep repeating, “Everything is fine! Everything is fine!” Usually we are quicker to the chase when it comes to talking about election results. However, we know that our faithful readers…

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