Buckel Wants Growth For Region

House Minority Leader Jason Buckel has been working for several years in Annapolis to try to get more attention paid to Western Maryland, especially in ways of economic growth. While lawmakers in Annapolis see the two western-most counties as small, Buckel says there is a need and there is room for the kind of growth that may bring prosperity without being subject to state mandates…

“Bring what I call good growth, reasonable growth. We’re not looking to just put things everywhere willy-nilly that don’t fit neighborhoods or cause problems but we gotta have commercial amenity job and population growth in Allegany County.”