Annapolis Capital Punishment

CP Invites Readers to Send In Your Top News Stories We'd Like To See In 2009...Or Perhaps More Likely In 2010.... Here Are Some of Ours:

City Manager Charter Amendment Passed

Competent, Bi-Partisan, Honest Mayor Who Values Citizens and Public Service Elected; Promises to Work With County Executive and City Council-Annapolitans Rejoice

New Public Works Director is Hired; Council Calls Experience and Credentials "Impeccable"

Council Acts to Merge Departments to Improve Performance, Save Money; Public Works to Absorb Transportation, HarborMaster and DNEP; Economic Affairs and Youth and Community Affairs Disbanded; Police, Fire, Emergency Planning Merge Into Public Safety Super-Department

City Hires First Bicycling and Walking Planner/Coordinator

Josh Cohen Abandons Mayoral Aspirations; Seeks Re-Election to City Council

City Council Acts to Curtail Mayoral Hiring of Consultants

Transportation Department Audited; Director Resigns Amid Controversy

City and County Agree to Bi-Level Cooperation in Transportation and Other Services; Agree to Discuss Multi-Modal Transportation Center (this will only come to pass if some of the other above stories come true first...)

Media Investors Buy Annapolis Capital Punishment Blog for Reported Six Figures

ZipCar Opens Annapolis Office; One Thousand City Residents Expected to Sell Personal Cars

Commission on Future of Public Housing Suggests Sale and Bold Transformation of Projects

Chief Pristoop Develops Innovative Plan for Community Policing; Substations, Increase in Bike/Walking Officers Expected

City Settles Market House Lawsuit, Agrees to Favorable Terms for New Management

And here are some that we'd like to see but frankly, don't expect them to ever happen....

Mayor Moyer Admits Mistakes, Apologizes for Mishaps and Says "Yes-People Are At Least As Important As Are Trees" ... Mayor still not certain whether money does or does not actually grow on trees

Air Conditioners Finally Fixed on City Buses

National Trust Tells Annapolitans: Quit Petty Infighting, Get Your Act Together or Face Wrath of Department of Interior

Mayor Moyer Admits Mistakes, Apologizes for Mishaps and Says "I Now Support A City Manager Form of Government"

Mayor Moyer Admits Mistakes, Apologizes for Mishaps and Says "City Attorney Stephen Kling Was A Poor Choice and Fires Him"

Express Bus Routes to Washington and Baltimore Re-Opened

and finally:

Mayor Agrees to Take Chalk to City Dock and Write One Thousand Times:

"I AM SORRY FOR IMMEDIATELY RUNNING TO THE BALTIMORE SUN SAYING THAT MY NEIGHBORS AND CONSTITUENTS IN EASTPORT WERE RHETORICAL BOMB THROWERS WHEN THEY PACKED CITY HALL TO ASK FOR ACTION ABOUT GUNFIRE IN EASTPORT"


While I am on this roll, I highly encourage you to read Eric Hartley's latest column about some stories of 2008--wait until you see what he writes about the mayor...LOL....LOL
See: hartley 2008


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