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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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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 [...]

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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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By Paul Foer

On Monday, April 25 Sam McLean Brice testified before the City Council. He introduced himself and gave his address as 1811 Old Annapolis Boulevard, Annapolis, MD 21401. That’s just outside of the political boundary of Annapolis but many people who testify before Council actually don’t live in the city and as with [...]

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The Sound’s Paul Foer and guests Bill Kardash and Trudy McFall sift through Mayor Josh Cohen’s proposed 2012 budget and discuss what’s at stake for the people of Annapolis. Topics include the truth about last year’s budget cuts, how Annapolis compares to other similar Maryland cities, whether Annapolis truly has a balanced budget, and suggestions [...]

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Annapolis City Council will unveil on first reader tonight legislation that would amend the charter to increase the City’s standing line of credit to $10 million:

CA-1-11 PUBLIC DEBT – For the purpose of increasing to ten million dollars
($10,000,000) the permissible aggregate principal amount the City of Annapolis
may borrow at any [...]

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The Sound’s Kyle Stewart spoke with the City of Annapolis’ new Public Works Director David Jerrell, P.E. about the nuts and bolts of the City’s snow plan, what to expect and what citizens should plan on doing if/when we get the next big snow!

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The Sound’s Kyle Stewart spoke with Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen about the City’s snow preparedness, what it learned from last year’s Snowmageddon, and how it plans to handle the financial burden this year in light of the near $1 million snow removal cost Annapolis last year. Check it out!

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By Kyle Stewart

Annapolis, CITY HALL – Last night’s regularly scheduled City Council meeting saw the Council chambers nearly filled to capacity to witness the proceedings – with most in attendance not even there for the introduction of the much-anticipated Market House lease and open-air market ordinances that were scheduled [...]

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By Sarah Miller

The mayor’s office issued a press release last Thursday announcing that the investigation into the theft of over $150,000 in cash and checks from City Hall is now officially over.  The headline of the press release included the encouraging phrase “person of interest identified” as well as [...]

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