The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team 2257 posts 224 comments

Information about the outside investigation was shared with commissioners “after the fact” and after commissioners had voted to eliminate county funding for Head Start. One commissioner asks whether the County’s funding for and…

I have never met Alan Goldsmith, but I have read hundreds of his comments posted to local news sites. Dr. Goldsmith called for an investigation of Council woman Marcia Higgins’ attendance record. To the credit of AnnArbor.com the news site…

WE HAVE COME to expect, sadly, the wholesale neglect of our roads by the city’s current mayor and his political allies on City Council, two of whom are currently running for mayor. In 2009, and again in 2011 state officials released a…

That Council member Chuck Warpehoski is using his position as the director of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice to push a transit millage may be legal, but it’s certainly not how I intend my charitable donations to be used. Kudos…

The article about Council member Warpehoski’s support of the AAATA millage was unfair in its characterizations of him. Our town is small and where his wife works should not come into any discussion of his decisions  to support the transit…

I finished reading the front page story about the emails between AADL trustee Prue Rosenthal and Josie Parker and was left speechless that the public was not alerted to these problems. The information may or may not have caused people to be…

Pease note: Kai Petainen is a member of The Ann Arbor Independent’s Editorial Board. WARD 5 COUNCIL member Chuck Warpehoski is facing persistent questions from the public, his Council colleagues and his opponent in the August 5…

by J.H. Mae I’M FINALLY THE proud owner of a health insurance plan. It covers nothing, but if I get a kidney stone or break my coccyx, I’m covered. Thanks, Obamacare! This isn’t an anti-Obamacare rant or a blushing endorsement, I’m…

THE ANN ARBOR Independent is committed to in-depth reporting on local news as well as accountability journalism. This means the newspaper relies on the Freedom of Information Act to request public records. Over the past four months, the…

by Jeremy Greenfield SAY GOODBYE TO the years of fast-paced ebook growth — at least for now. Ebook growth, once in the triple and double digits, with no signs of abating, slowed to a crawl in 2013. According to the latest numbers from…