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Pantelides Gets 60 Years for Terror Plot

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Pantelides Gets 60 Years for Terror Plot Former Mayor planned to blow up Cypriot gas rig   Nicosia (SPP) – Former Annapolis Mayor Mike Pantelides won’t be back on the streets of Annapolis, or anywhere else, for some time to come, thanks to a Cypriot judge handing him 60 years, the maximum, for planning a terror attack. Pantelides’s problems started late last year when a commercial DNA test revealed that he was Turkish and had no Greek ancestry. This came as a shock to Pantelides, who always took pride in…

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Taney Statue Replaced by Hogan and Franchot

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Taney Statue Replaced by Hogan and Franchot Pair came up with the idea while drinking Maryland beer Annapolis (SPP) – St. Patrick’s Day came a little late for Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Comptroller Peter Franchot this year. After a day of hard drinking yesterday, the duo came up with a replacement for the statute of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, which was controversially removed by Hogan last August. Taney was the first Marylander to serve as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, but he was infamous for authoring…

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Annapolis Passes Anti-NRA Law

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Annapolis Passes Anti-NRA Law Website to be blocked among other measures Annapolis (SPP) – At last night’s Annapolis City Council meeting, decisive action was taken to shut down the NRA in the city. Dubbed the Anti-NRA law, the “Restore Freedom and Peace Act” co-sponsored by Alderman Marc Rodriguez (D) and Mayor Gavin Buckley (D) passed with near unanimity. The controversial bill, which many legal experts say will face stiff legal challenges, bans the NRA from holding events and soliciting within the city, fines NRA members who are city residents $1000…

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Buckley Briefly Thought He Was Messiah – Report

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Buckley Briefly Thought He Was Messiah – Report Campaign photographer convinced him to try to walk on water   Annapolis (SPP) – Gavin Buckley was convinced by his campaign photographer, albeit briefly,  last summer during his mayoral campaign, that he was the Messiah. The astonishing report came from a former high ranking Buckley campaign advisor who requested anonymity. “Gavin was out having coffee one afternoon with his campaign photographer, this guy named Conrad, at 49 West. Conrad is sort of a local street philosopher type guy who lives in a…

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Salt Water Crocodiles in Spa Creek

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Salt Water Crocodiles in Spa Creek Mayor Buckley Pushing Plan   Annapolis (SPP) – Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley’s plan to make Spa Creek “pristine” and swimmable during his first term took its first concrete steps yesterday as he announced he had reintroduced crocodiles to the area. During pre-historic times, the Chesapeake Bay was full of giant crocodiles. Even as late as a hundred years ago, it wasn’t unusual to spot alligators, who belong to the crocodilian family, in the bay and they sometimes still make their way as far north as the…

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Pantelides Indicted, Flees to Turkish Cyprus

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Pantelides Indicted, Flees to Turkish Cyprus Drafted into Turkish Cypriot Military North Nicosia (SPP) – Former Annapolis Mayor Mike Pantelides was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Baltimore on Friday for a violation of the Stolen Valor Act of 2013. This carries a penalty of up to one year in prison. Pantelides’s problems with the law started when a good Samaritan spotted the disgraced former mayor panhandling while pretending that he was a veteran. Pantelides never served in the armed forces. Pretending to be a veteran to receive anything…

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Annapolis City Council Meeting Ends After Nearly 24 Hours

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Annapolis City Council Meeting Ends After Nearly 24 Hours Every Malcontent in City Showed up to Speak     Annapolis (SPP) – Last night’s Annapolis City Council meeting finally ended today at about 5:40 pm, almost 24 hours after it began. The third longest council meeting within the last year was dominated by talk of the historic Market House. There was also discussion about zoning concerns, historical preservation, and a variety of citizen complaints. Initially only scheduled for a couple hours, the meeting took on a life of its own…

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Trump Uses Shutdown to End Public Housing

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Trump Uses Shutdown to End Public Housing Schuh races to bulldoze and replace with condos Annapolis (SPP) – City and County leaders responded with both horror and glee to a decision by the Trump administration to use the government shutdown to end Federally funded public housing in America. Citing the inability to pay for upkeep, the Trump administration announced today that it was unable to safely run the units. Accordingly, all public housing units will be bulldozed and auctioned off to pay government debt. The White House stated that they…

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Stolen Valor: Pantelides Panhandles as a Vet

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Stolen Valor: Pantelides Panhandles as a Vet Reported to Feds; Indictment Looms   Annapolis (SPP) – The hits just keep on coming for former Annapolis Mayor Michael Pantelides. It seems like he is the guy who just can’t get a break. After losing his job as mayor in a humiliating defeat to Gavin Buckley, Pantelides had to take a job as a dish washer in a Greek restaurant, only to be fired after a DNA test revealed that he wasn’t Greek at all, but half-Turkish. Dumped by his girlfriend, disowned…

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Annapolis City Council Rejects Buckley’s “Dream Act”

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Annapolis City Council Rejects Buckley’s “Dream Act” Rodriguez called bill “an insult.” Annapolis (SPP) – The Annapolis City Council meeting got heated last Monday when Mayor Gavin Buckley introduced his own “Dream Act” to the Council. While bills nationally by this name have focused on granting amnesty to people who were illegally brought to the US as children, Buckley’s bill had nothing to do with immigration. It’s one sentence text simply stated in large text, “Annapolitans are free to dream!!!!!!!!!” “When I came to Annapolis, I didn’t have a penny…

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