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By Kyle Stewart
Annapolis, CITY HALL – Radical – and expensive – change was in the air at City Hall last night as Lehr Jackson’s Gone to Market, LLC presented the first of two updates on the Market House project slated for this month.
The presentation by Mr. [...]
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By Kyle Stewart
Annapolis, CITY HALL – Mayor Cohen and the City Council played to an embarrassingly small crowd last night on an evening that would see a number of crucial decisions made which will affect both the near and long-term futures of Annapolis.
Amongst the noteworthy actions taken during the special [...]
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By Kyle Stewart
CITY HALL – Last night’s regular session of the City Council was relatively uneventful – until the end of the meeting. That’s when the confirmation of newly hired Transportation Director Richard A. Newell came under scrutiny due to a criminal record that the City’s Human Resources Department failed to [...]
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By Kyle Stewart
Annapolis, CITY HALL – Mayor Joshua Cohen and Lehr Jackson’s Gone to Market LLC presented the City Council’s Economic Matters Committee with a formalized statement of intent outlining basic terms of agreement for managing/developing the Market House last night. The official document – [...]
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By Kyle Stewart
Following-up on our coverage of July 29th’s emergency City Council meeting, The Annapolis Sound has attempted to contact the eight current alderpersons to find out if the Mayor has made good on his assurance that they would be provided with a detailed accounting [...]
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by Kyle Stewart
An optimistic Mayor Joshua Cohen and acting city manager Mike Mallinoff presented cash flow projections to the City Council on Monday night that predict that the City will be able to pay its bills until the City’s line of credit could be extended in September. [...]
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Annapolis, your government has racked up $10 million in charges on your credit card, and you still haven’t gotten the receipt yet.
Despite assurances from administration sources, hard numbers on how the City spent the first $10 million of their credit line were nowhere [...]
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According to City PIO Phil McGowan, acting city manager Mike Mallinoff will be presenting the City Council with updated data accounting for the first $10 million of the now $16 million line of credit that was borrowed by the City during a public work session that will be [...]
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This week on Soundwaves, The Sound’s staff discusses last week’s crazy political moving and shaking that included an emergency session of the City Council, radical developments in the Market House Saga, the repeal of the moratorium on 2 a.m. liquor licenses, and raising the City’s line of credit [...]
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For those who were unable to attend Thursday’s emergency City Council meeting in which Mayor Cohen’s amendment to the City Charter increasing the City’s line of credit from $10 million to $16 million in spite of unanimous public opposition, here’s the full slate of testimony offered by your fellow Annapolitans (re-formatted from the City’s site [...]
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