Columbia Association President and CEO Lakey Boyd has decided to leave her position in the face of written demands from the elected Board of Directors to which she reports that she said would leave her unable to perform her duties. Boyd said in a statement that board leaders gave her a document at a meeting […]
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Columbia Coup Update: Paying “whatever it takes” to oust a CEO
Elected leaders of the Columbia Association may be willing to pay “whatever it takes” to replace a chief executive hired just 18 months ago to run key elements of Maryland’s second largest city, according to a local official who said this week that he had spoken to several members of the Columbia Association Board of […]
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Interim President named for Columbia Association
The board of directors of the Columbia Association has named an interim president to fill the position vacated after the resignation of Lakey Boyd as the organization embarks on a search for a permanent head. Dennis Mattey, who currently serves as the vice president of community operations for the Columbia Association, will fill the interim […]
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Columbia Association CEO denied request to challenge her evaluation as board maintains silence
The elected directors of the Columbia Association in Howard County have determined that the organization’s CEO has no right to appeal an annual evaluation that she says contains wildly conflicting accounts of her performance and has no actionable steps for improvement – and may be a document they are using to oust her. Lakey Boyd, […]
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Last Week, This Week: Stories You Need To Start Your Day (News From Feb. 6-10)
From a push for pay raises for Baltimore City sanitation workers, to the arrest of a Cockeysville man accused of shooting two police officers, revisit some of the most-read Baltimore Fishbowl stories of last week — plus some editor’s picks that caught our attention.
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The Top Baltimore Fishbowl Stories of 2022: Editors’ Picks
Baltimore Fishbowl covers the region’s important day-to-day news and the stories of people who make this city a unique and heartening place to live. Executive Editor David Nitkin and Senior Editor Marcus Dieterle looked back at the stories we covered in 2022 and gathered their top choices for readers to revisit. Here are our Fishbowl […]
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A coup in Columbia? A dynamic leader faces a disgruntled board in Maryland’s second-largest city
It was deep into the third hour of a dry meeting on budgets and ethics policies when the president of the Columbia Association directed a stark question to the board that just 18 months ago hired her for one of the most prominent leadership positions in Howard County. “I actually had a question for the […]
