Annapolis Capital Punishment

CP would like to see The Capital print the salaries of its top executives. We all know what a pittance it pays its reporters, but if they are going to print the complete list of every government official earning over $100k per year, don't we deserve to know what their top exec's make? Don't we deserve to know their corporate financial details?

What bothers CP more than anything about their annual listing is the subtext that they are all a bunch of wasteful slobs sitting on huge salaries doing nothing. Okay-perhaps this is not what The Capital is thinking, but anyone who reads the paper knows in what regard it holds anyone who works for government. The big issue seems to be overpay time for firefighters and the huge number of highly paid school administrators at Riva Road.

If we pay so much for firefighter's overtime, perhaps we'd save money by paying a higher wage and attracting more applicants and thereby reducing overtime--which is usually time and a half! It would be silly to think all those firefighters actually want all that overtime. As for Riva Road, CP has long contended that the school administrators are in general, a bunch of busybodies who make busy work and attend meetings. Okay, so CP is exaggerating. But seriously, how many assistant program administrators and curriculum resource specialists and who knows what else do we really need? We need teachers, counselors, principals, janitors, but administrators????

CP thinks County Exec. Leopold got it right by raising teacher and principal's salaries but not giving Mr. Maxwell everything he wanted for the rest of his budget. CP wishes they could get along. There is a lot to be done. Maybe we should do at Riva Road what we had to do at Annapolis High--fire everyone and make them re-apply for their jobs. Now, if The Capital really wants to stir up a hornet's nest, go send some reporters to Riva Road to find out what all those busy, busy bureaucrats do all day long......CP is pretty certain the reporters will go from one meeting to another to another...Hey Let's have another meeting!

Mr. Maxwell, please trim this fat at Riva Road!