Category: OPINION
Has Patch Hit A Rough Patch?
UPDATE: According to the Broadneck Patch, the position of Local Editor was filled shortly after publication of this column. As any reader of Eye On Annapolis knows, we really enjoy the hyper local Patch websites. While we can cover a larger area and can’t be at all places all the time, the local Patch editor [...]
Letter: Thoughts On The Constellation-Exelon Merger
The proposed merger of the year by the executive staff of Constellation Energy and Exelon Energy is a dangerous and unreasonably expensive charge to all rate payers of Baltimore Gas and Electric. If the Maryland Public Service Commission fails again, as they did in 2008 to protect the best interests of the ratepayers of BGE [...]
Market House Up In Air Again
Late last night, after most people had finished voicing their support of raising chickens in Annapolis and left, the Annapolis City Council sat down to talk about the Market House–again! Public Works Director, David Jarrell explained that the last day for business at the “old” Market House was December 31st and business “went out with [...]
Is Crofton Becoming A Crime Mecca Of Anne Arundel County?
<–To share this article with google, your facebook friends, and your twitter followers, please click the icons to the left. You no longer have to go to the seedy parts of Washington or Baltimore to find the violent crime. It seems that it is taking an inordinate hold on a sleepy little town called Crofton, [...]
Thanks To An Off-Duty Firefighter
The following email was received this weekend in response to the tragic bicycle accident late last week in Millersville. I would like to thank Fire Fighter Thorpe, an off duty fireman who stopped and took control of the scene until paramedics and police arrived. The incredible and calm manner in which he tended to the [...]
Remembering A Very Sad June
July is here and not a minute too soon. While we prepare to celebrate the birth of our nation, the greater community and families are still mired in the loss of their loved ones. Earlier in June, we lost two college students with promising futures in a motorcycle accident–Van Eney and Kelcey Silva. Later in [...]
Editorial: Judge Hackner Lets Another One Go
The Maryland Gazette reports that Judge Paul Hackner has decided to ignore sentencing guidelines by giving an 18 month sentence to a man who should have received from five to sixteen years. Marquis McKnight, 18, pleased guilty to first degree assault and several counts of second degree assault. Last summer, McKnight pistol whipped an elderly [...]
Opinion: When Pit Bulls Attack
<–please share this opinion with your facebook friends and twitter followers by using the icons to the left. It can’t be denied that we have seen a rise in “incidents” involving Pit Bull dogs. There was not one, but two recent incidents in Anne Arundel County where a Pit Bull was shot by a person [...]
Is It Time For A Thorough Investigation?
<–Do you like this post? Please share it with your facebook friends and twitter followers by using the icons to the left. It seems that not a week goes by that some new “un-anticipated event” crops up for the City Of Annapolis. When Mayor Cohen first took office, it was the financial condition that he [...]
Has Annapolis Seen The Last Of The Blue Angels?
As disappointing as it is, I believe that Annapolis may have seen their last Blue Angels airshow in May 2010. While thousands of families (including my own) consider the show a public holiday, I believe that with the canceled show this year, coupled with the canceled show for next year will result in this fabulous [...]
Not my ID-ea of a good time
Oh spring just brings out the best in people, doesn’t it? It’s so much fun to spend hours outside while the days start to get longer and warmer, and who doesn’t enjoy a cocktail this time of year? I, for one, am all about it. I am NOT all about obnoxious midshipmen and their families [...]
Conti For County Executive? Congress? Council?
Joanna Conti lost her bid for County Executive last November. She was named the Chairwoman of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Anne Arundel County Public Schools and has taken the bull by the horns identifying the issues that matter to the parents. We were surprised to see that she is forming a “task force” to [...]
That Green Thing
Today is Earth Day. The day that we are supposed to take some time to be aware of the natural treasures this planter we call home offers. We should be mindful of our waste. We should be looking for ways to be more kind to our environment. We need to learn to be “green.” It [...]
Catalytic Crime Wave Hits Annapolis
<–please share this posting with your facebook friends and twitter followers by using the icons on the left! This past weekend was a busy one for Annapolis City Police. From this morning’s police report: Theft from vehicle – 100 block of Gibralter Ave – 4/7 at 5pm to 4/8 at 8am: Unknown suspect(s) removed the [...]
Annapolis Now Looking For 23% Budget Increase
Budget Creep In less time than it takes to say “Holy overdrawn bank account Batman,” Annapolis City has once again increased their proposed budget. At the State of the City Address, Mayor Cohen announced a 7.6% increase over last year’s budget. For those who are able to do the math, that increased a $75.2 million [...]
From The Classroom: Seth Perry’s Market House Thoughts
Up on Capitol Hill, John Boehner is proving that he is only good for two things–crying, and being an adequate stand-in for families who have forgotten to buy a Halloween pumpkin. Under his leadership, the government has lodged itself between a rock, a hard place, and a bunch of angry voters. They’ve most recently found [...]
Is O’Malley Out Of Touch?
AFSCME’s Executive Director, Patrick Moran, has a big smile on his face in an article this morning in MarylandReporter.com. And well he should. His union just negotiated a sweetheart deal that Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley says it is “a step forward.” For who Governor? The terms of the deal (according to MarylandReporter.com) include the following [...]
Annapolis Market House–Is There An End In Site?
Correction: Over the past few months, I was under the assumption that Public Works was to be completing these renovations in house in order to keep the $600K cost to a minimum. I was informed yesterday that the intent was for Public Works to design the project internally and put the work out for bid [...]
From The Classroom: If You “Like” This…Nothing Will Happen
Last night, I had a crazy dream. And not the kind where Jessica Alba takes her shirt off. I was observing some sort of religious ceremony. It was in…you could call it a cathedral, but instead of extensive Sistine-Chapel type murals of angels and cherubs and the Virgin Mary holding God Jr, the ceiling was [...]
Market House Deal Beginning To Smell Fishy
At one point in time, City Hall and Lehr Jackson, developer of the newest rendition of the Market House, envisioned an Annapolis Market House similar to Seattle’s Pikes Market complete with fish mongers tossing fish from one side to the other. Well, it seems that the fish may have arrived a bit early. Late last [...]
From The Classroom: Hypocrite Harris And Other Reasons Students Would Make Better Congressmen
I have a business opportunity for anyone who is interested. It should only take a little bit of cash infusion to start it up, and should immediately begin booming and producing countless profit. Ready for this? A new clothing line of “Miss me yet?” shirts featuring Frank Kratovil. If the voters in District 1 haven’t [...]
Santa Disappoints Toddler
My 3 year old daughter saw that Santa was standing around at the end of everything taking pictures so of course she wanted to have her picture taken with Santa. Needless to say that Santa was so much in a rush to leave and have pictures taken with grown women that when my daughter walked [...]
