>By: Liz Farmer 02/21/11 1:46 PM
Examiner Staff Writer
.The Maryland General Assembly is taking up a joint Senate resoution to rename two mountains in Western Maryand whose names are a litte, uh, shall we say, outdated?
The peaks in question are Polish Mountain in Allegany County and Negro Mountain in Garrett County. Yeah. We can see why maybe they’d want to change those ones to “reflect more accurately the history and culture of the region within which they are located,” as the resolution says.
Not surprisingly, the proposed solution is to establish a state commission to research and come up with new names for the mountains. Maryland is a very commission- and task force-happy state. Establishing a group to study an issue is often lawmakers’ way of delaying a vote on a bill but still moving forward with it in some sense.
In the past, the state has established a commission to study the death penalty, for example. But are these mountains really that controversial? Sure, their names are dicey now … but it’s too bad the state can’t have a little more fun with it, like holding a naming contest (a la the National Zoo and its baby pandas a few years back).
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/capital-land/2011/02/lawmakers-want-rename-western-md-mountains#ixzz1EirimKz7
