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Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen and members of the City Council announced yesterday that they will radically retool the proposed 2012 budget to include tax increases and budget cuts in order to prevent the City’s finances from collapsing.
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Continue Reading →Annapolitans packed the City Council Chambers last night to voice their concern over Mayor Josh Cohen’s proposed 2012 budget in light of the City’s financial crisis.
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Annapolitans and their civic leaders gathered in front of the Market House yesterday to commemorate Bike to Work Day and talk about the future of Annapolis transportation. Speakers included ARTMA executive director Dave Humphreys, Annpolis Mayor Josh Cohen, Dept. of Transportation’s Ian Banks, Anne Arundel County Councilman Chris Trumbauer, and journalist Paul Foer (The Capital/The [...]
Continue Reading →The Sound’s Paul Foer offers his take on Ald. Ross Arnett’s presentation at Maryland Hall on the budget crisis facing the City of Annapolis, and speaks with Annapolitans Randy Landis and former mayor Dean Johnson.
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The Sound was on hand as economist and City of Annapolis Ward 8 alderman Ross Arnett explained the dire state of Annapolis’ finances and why passing Mayor Josh Cohen’s proposed 2012 budget will make it more difficult for the City to get itself out of its current financial problems. Arnett called for difficult but necessary [...]
Continue Reading →The Sound was on hand when the new Annapolis Economic Development Corporation and research firm BBP presented the preliminary results of the economic viability study of Annapolis today.
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The Sound’s cameras were on hand when protestors from the infamous Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS, showed up in Ft. Meade and were greeted by a crowd of counter-protesters including members of the Christian and LGBT communities.
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With the current estimate of how much it will cost the taxpayers of Annapolis growing to over $700,000, the proposed Market House legislation is the first major issue facing the City of Annapolis in 2011. The Sound has captured some of our more articulate fellow Annapolitans speaking both in favor of and against the legislation. [...]
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The Sound spoke with Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen following the City’s Economic Matters Committee’s meeting to discuss the proposed Market House lease and hear public testimony. Topics include: public opposition to the lease, Cohen’s reticence to accept the offer of Mike Ashford’s group to run the Market House, and where the legislation [...]
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