Annapolis Capital Punishment

After today's coverage of the charter amendment introduced by Alderman Israel on February 14th, the Washington Post's Arundel section finally decided to write "news" about this story. CP penned this letter to Post reporter Raymond McCaffrey:

Dear Ray McCaffrey:

I continue to question the relevance and the necessity of the Arundel weekly section which is mostly about sports, news from other places and puffery. When it attempts to cover "news" it does so long after it was new and the reporters, such as yourself, seem to be unaware and isolated from the news makers.
This has been the case every time a city issue is covered. Today, there was a piece about Alderman Israel's charter amendment, which was introduced at City Council on February 14th--ten days ago! By now, it has been written about even in The Baltimore Examiner, not to mention the other daily papers covering Annapolis which did so more than a week ago.

What also concerned me is that there was one citizen who testified against this bill and you never made any attempt to read that person's concerns or to communicate with that person, who has been speaking about and writing about this for over a year.

I expect more from the Washington Post, my hometown paper that I read while growing up, but the Arundel Section just does not seem to have any idea what it is doing or why.

Paul Foer

(Of course what CP did not tell Mr. McCaffrey that it was yours truly who testified against this bill. CP has long been a strong supporter of amending our charter to create a city manager form of government and opposes Alderman Israel's bill because it will dilute and confuse an already confused situation.)