How miserable it was as somebody who loves the Chesapeake Bay to see David Kelsey’s letter concerning the dying Patuxent River, juxtaposed in opposition to the Metro part article “Maryland Democrats have lengthy to-do listing” [both Jan. 11]. The Patuxent, situated totally throughout the state of Maryland, is one in all many tributaries to the Chesapeake Bay. We will’t blame the utter failure to scrub up the bay on some other state or entity — this river’s decay is a Maryland drawback, 100%.