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Recycle Ann Arbor Quietly Throws CEO Melinda Uerling Under the Wheels of the Compost Truck
MAKE NO MISTAKE. One look at the last three years of financial statements of Recycle Ann Arbor, and the company's losses make it clear that CEO Melinda Uerling was struggling to keep the company, controlled by the Ann Arbor Ecology Center,…
FOIA Reveals Mayor and Council Targeted Popular Parks For Development
A2PNotes: This is filed under "Scoops & Scores" because you read it here first
by P.D. Lesko
Collectively, Ann Arbor residents own about 2,000 acres of parkland. A conservative estimate of the value of the land, according to city…
Savaged: The Double-Edged Sword of “The Most Beautiful Place in America”
by Chris Savage
Unknown to many Americans outside of Michigan, our state is hardly one of just auto manufacturing, Motown, snow, and sports. In addition to these things, we have some of the most beautiful natural places in all of America.…
Recycle Ann Arbor Has Lost 700K & Michael Garfield Thinks RAA Is Entitled To A Taxpayer Bailout
To listen to Michael Garfield, head of the Ecology Center tell the story, Recycle Ann Arbor, which is controlled by Garfield and the Ecology Center, has been the victim of "miscalculation made in the 2010 contract" between the City of Ann…
Repurposing Ann Arbor’s Golf Courses. Why Not? It’s A National Trend.
Residents of Ann Arbor have twice defeated attempts to dispose of Huron Hills Golf Course. A2Politico reported on the efforts here, where residents retained a lawyer and alleged that Mayor and Council were breaking the law in attempts to…
The Wheels Come Off The Recycling Cart: Projected Collections Down 40 Percent & Recycle Ann Arbor On the Ropes Financially
A2Politico has been consistently critical of the city's move to single-stream recycling, interviewing and quoting national experts who dubbed the move "environmentally regressive" and a "waste of taxpayer money." A2Politico questioned the…
The Culture Vulture: U2 Stamps Godzilla’s Carbon Footprint on Michigan
by Chris Savage
This past Sunday I got an unexpected call with an offer to purchase tickets to the East Lansing stop of U2's 360° tour later that evening. The show was a rescheduling of the original tour which had been postponed because…
PAC Member Complains That Parks Millage Money Is Being Diverted Through Accounting Trickery
The cash cows who live in Ann Arbor have a record of voting to nickel and dime themselves to death, literally. The city's property tax bill, thanks to "supplemental" millages, has come to resemble a check in a French restaurant where…
House Calls: Rep. Jeff Irwin Talks Funding (i.e. New Taxes) For Transportation
Representative Jeff Irwin, a Democrat, served for a decade as a Washtenaw County Commissioner. In January 2011, he began his first term in the Michigan House of Representatives. In his regular column, House Calls, A2Politico will pose a…
MSU But Not U of M/Ann Arbor On League of American Bicyclist Ranking of Bike-Friendly Campuses
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that: "Western universities dominate the first-ever ranking of bike-friendly institutions by the League of American Bicyclists, with Stanford University taking the only platinum honors and two…