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The Annapolis Sound’s Paul Foer gives the inside scoop on the scheduled Valentine’s Day vote by the City Council on the proposed Market House lease with Lehr Jackson’s Gone to Market, LLC after the Economic Matters Committee unanimously voted against the proposal on Thursday evening.
You’ve heard our side, now what do YOU think? [...]
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By Kyle Stewart
Photo by Alison Harbaugh
When I moved my family to Annapolis three years ago, one of the first things I was told by an Annapolitan was that there is more wealth per square foot in this city than anywhere else in the United States. Since then, I’ve also been [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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!
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!
By Kyle Stewart
Market House Saga continues to twist and turn as the City has postponed two significant steps in the legislative process due to an impasse between Mayor Joshua Cohen’s administration and Lehr Jackson’s Gone to Market, LLC over major points in the proposed Market House lease. [...]
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By Kyle Stewart
Annapolis, CITY HALL – What promised to be a simple procedural step towards consideration of the long-awaited Market House legislation last night turned into a tense discussion of the agreement that has tentatively been settled on by Mayor Josh Cohen and Lehr Jackson’s [...]
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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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