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(From yesterday’s Sunday Capital.  You can read it on the website here.) Proposed budget faces Annapolis’ fiscal challenges head-on In 1892 a young salesman named William Wrigley, Jr. was selling baking powder to businesses in Chicago.  As an incentive, he started offering two free packages of chewing gum with each can of baking powder. As [...]

At a City Council work session on Thursday, the mayor will present a revised fiscal year 2011 budget proposal that balances the City’s finances without raising the property tax rate. The mayor’s budget amendment calls for millions of dollars in additional cuts and other changes to offset further declining revenues. It will also ensure the [...]