Tag: josh cohen
Maryland Prepares For Major Snow
Annapolis Prepares For Major Overtime The area is bracing for a major snowstorm. All of the weather-guessers are excited and trying to outguess the other one. They are even starting to lay pre-blame for a botched forecast. This morning, we heard ranges from 2″ to 4″ up to 12″ to 18″ with a disclaimer that [...]
Update On Cohen’s Ax
Mayor Sort Of Clarifies Cuts The Mayor’s Office just released an update to the press release of yesterday. Today, it indicates that there were six positions eliminated. They also eliminated an Assistant Public Information Officer. Cohen’s office is now claiming that the only two vacant positions were the Chief Information Officer and the Special Assistant [...]
Not So Fast Mr. Mayor
Cohen’s Ax Was Dull NOTE: Toward the bottom of this post, we used the term “consultant” in an allusion to Doug Smith. Mr. Smith is a “contractual employee” of the City and we regret the error in choice of words. Earlier today, we reported that Mayor Cohen had begun to wield the axe in an [...]
Cohen Wields Ax At City Hall
Eliminates Five Positions, Makes Good On Campaign Promises In an effort to combat the fiscal uncertainty of Annapolis’ future, Mayor Josh Cohen has eliminated five positions from the bloated City. According to a press release, in order to offset the new positions created in his first week, Cohen has eliminated the Chief Information Officer, Executive [...]
Cohen Freezes
Mayor Implements Hiring Freeze Realizing what the former Mayor wanted to hide, Mayor Cohen has issued a hiring freeze to deal with fiscal mess he inherited last week. The freeze is effective immediately. The Police and Fire Departments will still be able to hire, but only with approval from the Mayor and the Chief Administrative [...]
Has Mayor Cohen Slipped Already?
Annapolis Mayoral Appointments Raise Eyebrows Three months ago, Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen was on the campaign trail begging for votes. One of his biggest obstacles was the close ties he was perceived to have with former Mayor Ellen Moyer. After eight years, the citizens of Annapolis were clamoring for solid change at City Hall. Josh [...]
Meet The Candidates
Anne Arundel County Council Forum Tomorrow Night The Anne Arundel County Council will be appointing a replacement for Josh Cohen who resigned his seat to become Mayor of Annapolis. The process will be swift and county residents will have little input into the decision. The forum is tomorrow, the interviews are on December 17th, and [...]
Annapolis Citizens: Input Needed
Public Forum To Shape Future At yesterday’s inauguration, Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen announced a Public Forum for Thursday, December 10th from 5-7pm at Wiley H. Bates Middle School. The purpose is to seek input from residents on eight key areas–environment, budget, Market House & City Dock, parking & transportation, economic development, government structure & permitting, [...]
Another Delay On Slots?
Councilwoman Tricia Johnson In Hospital After attending the Inauguration of Annapolis Mayor Joshua Cohen earlier in the day, County Councilwoman Tricia Johnson is apparently being treated at the hospital. There have been no updates as to why she was admitted or her condition. The County County Council was scheduled to possibly vote on the slot [...]
Spelling Counts
Prior to Mayor Josh Cohen’s Inauguration, a slide show was being projected on the screen highlighting what truly is special about Annapolis. The following photo was taken and has been edited to increase the contrast and to add the circle. But for the record, we are a CapitAl City!
Cohen Announces Team
Core Adminitstration Team Names Released In a 10:00am press conference this morning, incoming Mayor-Elect Joshua J. Cohen announced several members of his administration which he has dubbed his “Core Administration Team”. If nothing else, some of these appointments prove the adage “politics makes strange bedfellows.” Cohen had pledged to change the way business was done [...]
Slots Shenanigans
Middlebrooks Recuses Himself From The Slots Vote Anne Arundel County Council, it seems, is doing everything possible to avoid voting on the slot issue one way or the other. The issue is scheduled to be up for a vote on Monday, December 7th and requires four votes of the seven member Council to pass. Today, [...]
Cohen Administration Announcement
Mayor-Elect To Name Key Appointments Mayor-Elect Josh Cohen, will announce several of his key appointments at a press conference on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 10:00am. Immediately following the announcement, the Mayor-Elect, the incoming City Council, and the new appointees will take a bus tour of City facilities.
Cohen Inaugural Update
Foundation Has Paperwork Problems UPDATE 1:22pm 12/01/2009: Per the Inaugural Committee, contributions will no longer be tax deductible. However, no tax dollars will be spent on this event. All contributions will be handled in a separate account. Yesterday, we questioned the process of soliciting funds for Mayor-Elect Cohen’s inauguration via a non-profit foundation. Yesterday, Annapolis [...]
Are You Attending Cohen’s Inauguration?
Inaugural Funding Questions Emerge CORRECTION: The “Democratic Victory Party” is scheduled for December 8, 2009 and is indeed a partisan party and separate from the Inaugural events. The party for which funds are being solicited is on the 7th. We regret the error. Yesterday, Mayor-Elect Josh Cohen announced that he did not want any public [...]
From The Classroom: Election Special ’09 Freshmen 8, Politicians 2
The election has come and gone. Congratulations to the winners, especially Josh Cohen! May you serve our great city well. Anyway, as I drove to school Tuesday, I saw people in bright yellow shirts on the sidewalk waving signs. Out in the cold. Morons, I thought. That struck me as strange, though. Annapolis has lots [...]
Cohen Names Transition Team
“Idea Team” Begins Work On New Administration This afternoon, Mayor-Elect Josh Cohen named his “Idea Team” to help with his transition into City Hall. The team is a bipartisan effort and is divided up into eight separate sub-teams. Cohen named Zina Pierre and Greg Stiverson to co-chair the team. Pierre and Stiverson were fellow candidates [...]
Where’s Classie Hoyle?
Hoyle’s Silence Is Deafening The day before a contested race in Annapolis’ Ward 3, a hateful flier was distributed to voters. It was repulsive. It was hateful. It was bigoted,. It was racist. It was homophobic. It was created to help “Sister Classie” win her election under the pretense of “keeping the Black Power” away [...]
Annapolis Election Recap
A New Regime Set To Take Reins At City Hall Well, as was to be expected, 68% of the voters in Annapolis did not bother to turn out and vote. How disappointing. Even more so when you consider that close to 100% of the voters were clamoring for change–any change–at City Hall! Wake up Annapolis, [...]
Annapolis Debates Tonight
Maryland Hall Hosts Mayoral Forum What’s Up? magazines and the Ward One Residents Association are sponsoring a Mayoral Forum tonight at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts on Chase Street. The debate will be televised. Josh Cohen, David Cordle and Chris Fox will square off from 7pm – 9pm. Moderating the debate will be St. [...]
County Council Pulls Fast One
Déjà Vu With Arundel Slots Once again, the County Council has stalled taking action on the slots referendum which was voted for by the citizens of this county last year. But this time, they are trying to convince voters that they are actually doing something. Do they think the voters have such short memories? It [...]
Cohen Reaches Out To African American Community
Lands Several Key Endorsements This afternoon, Josh Cohen, Democratic Candidate for Mayor of Annapolis announced that he has picked up the endorsement of several prominent local African American leaders including Zina Pierre. Pierre was the primary winner and subsequently stepped down allowing Cohen to be named the party’s candidate. Other notable African American leaders who [...]
