A2Politico

by Bryan Kelly I AM GOING door-to-door gathering signatures for a candidate (who isn’t me) to run for City Council in the partisan election. At least, I’m trying to gather signatures. Often, no one’s home when I visit, or their hiding…

by P.D. Lesko LET’S START WITH the good news: Ann Arbor Mayor Chris Taylor is reaching out to residents and trying to keep in touch about important matters such as city government, transit and public safety and the environment. It’s a…

by Bryan Kelly I HAPPENED INTO a sandwich shop the other day whose name shall be withheld from the record (though it shall not be spared the indignity of being guessed correctly). It charged some uncompromising prices! These were no…

by Bryan Kelly IF YOU HAVE been following along, you know that the New Vision is to make Ann Arbor Manhattan and Ypsilanti Brooklyn. If you haven’t been following along, well, there you have it. That’s Downtown Development Authority…

by Bryan Kelly THE FOLLOWING IS a cover letter included in my application for prospective appointment to one of Ann Arbor’s boards or commissions: To the Mayor’s Office, I am writing to express my interest in serving municipal…

by P.D. Lesko FROM SETBACKS TO obscure acronyms such as D-1 and D-2, it might be tough to understand how 11 adults could possibly have anything to snipe at each other about while discussing zoning regulations. However, on Jan. 5, the…

by P.D. Lesko FOR TWO YEARS, Ann Arbor Public School officials and members of the Board of Trustees have been hemming and hawing, discussing and studying the pros and cons of later start times for the district’s sleep-deprived teens. In…

P.D. Lesko TWO OF THE three judges who serve in the 14-A District Court were involved in judicial tenure review complaints. By now, if you don’t know the Judge Cedric Simpson and Judge Kirk Tabbey stories, you’re missing out on some…

by P.D. Lesko SO,  MICHIGAN AD Dave Brandon is out. He allegedly blamed the political composition of the U-M Board of Regents (Republicans, the lot of them) for his woes. Dave Brandon ended up with a multi-million dollar payout over the…

Editor: Democratic candidate for mayor Christopher Taylor has repeatedly commented on the need to encourage “young people to choose Ann Arbor.” We sent our 17-year-old high school intern, Micaela Stevenson, to the League of Women Voters…