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Keeping Tabs: Locals To Watch In 2014—Carter Malcolm
Brought manufacturing back to the United States from overseas. Provided dozens of jobs for area teen workers.
IT’S 2013, AND there are 2.5 million Americans ages 16 to 19 who are out of work or underemployed. This group includes teens…
Keeping Tabs: Locals To Watch In 2014—The University Of Michigan’s 14th President
Dr. Mary Sue Coleman was appointed as the 13th president of The University of Michigan in 2002. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, university presidents, on average, stay in their jobs 8.5 years. Coleman, then, in keeping her…
Keeping Tabs—Local To Watch In 2014: Matthew M. Davis, M.D., MAPP
Crowd funding for medical research? Introducing the WellSpringboard Site.
Crowd funding is all the rage these days, with everyone from charities to start-up companies offering ways for masses of people to kick in small amounts of money…
Keeping Tabs—Local To Watch In 2014: Brady Hoke
Who says nice guys finish last?
Brady Hoke is a nice guy. His players like him, and he is a Michigan man through and through despite having been born in Ohio and having played football for Ball State University. According to Hoke’s 18…
Keeping Tabs—Local To Watch In 2014: Ward 4 Council Member Jack Eaton
Friends say: He’s measured. Collegial. A leader. Detractors say: He’s a DINO. Anti-everything. Bad for Ann Arbor.
Jack Eaton speaks slowly, so slowly that sometimes you wonder how he doesn’t nod off in the middle of a sentence.…
Keeping Tabs—Local To Watch In 2014: Ward 2 Council Member Sally Hart Petersen
Over the past 190 years, only two women have served as mayor of Ann Arbor. Can Sally P. be #3?
Sally Hart Petersen ran a clever campaign to defeat two-term incumbent Tony Derezinski, a former state legislator. Mostly though, Sally…
Keeping Tabs—Locals To Watch In 2014: Dr. Jeanice Kerr Swift
Listening her way across the city. Budgeting her way to perdition.
Dr. Jeanice K. Swift was not the Ann Arbor Board of Education’s first choice to lead the Ann Arbor Public Schools. The search for Dr. Patricia Green’s replacement began…
76 Percent Of Citizen Survey Open-Ended Response Answers Focused On Roads & Taxes
IT’S USUALLY DEATH and taxes that define the inevitable. However, in the city’s 2013 National Citizen Survey, comments about roads and taxes dominated the open-ended question responses. Respondents were asked to record their opinions about…
City Officials Spend Heavily On Advertising In Monthly Tabloid & Rely Less On Advertising In Twice Weekly Newspapers
THE ANN ARBOR Indepdendent accepts no advertising from local, county or state government, local universities or the Ann Arbor Public Schools. It is a policy that takes direct aim at bolstering the newspaper’s editorial independence. The…
Jane Lumm Pushes Mayor For “Timely” And “Equitable” Sharing Of Info With City Council Members
WARD 2 COUNCIL member Jane Lumm ran for re-election in 2013 on a a platform that included improving the transparency of city government. She was not only talking about the need for city government to do a better job of sharing information…