Opinion

AURA ROSSER WAS mentally ill, perhaps with Bipolar disorder, according to statements made by her relatives and evidence presented in a 12-page memo released by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie. The night she was tasered by one…

by Brianne Recker THE SENATE Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture that was released this past December presented extremely disturbing mental images of torture techniques to those who read the report. Included were accounts of…

ON DEC. 1, 2014, preceded by Steve Carnes and prompted by Camp Serenity’s Gordon Smith, Caleb Poirier announced the homeless community’s intent to recall Stephen Kunselman from his Ward 3 City Council seat. Yes, it caught me off-guard, too.…

THE 6.3 PERCENT unemployment rate in Michigan at the end of December 2014 was the lowest on record in a dozen years. Gov. Rick Snyder in his State of the State was quick to take credit for the improvement. Democrats attribute increased…

YPSILANTI MAYOR PRO Tempore, Lois Richardson, a black woman, was taken to task by unnamed editorialists in The Ann Arbor News—published by MLive Media Group, a company controlled by a team of 23 white executives. Richardson was criticized…

THE INVESTIGATION INTO the police shooting of Aura Rosser is complete and the Michigan State Police have handed their findings over to the City of Ann Arbor as well as the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s office. County Prosecutor Mackie will…

FROM FOIA TO concealed weapons, last week Gov. Rick Snyder showed some of the “moderation” that has been missing from his leadership over the past four years. While campaigning, Snyder never professed to be a moderate Republican. Neither…

IN 2010, MICHIGAN passed a law that made it illegal to text and drive. The results of this policy change are in and they’re disappointing. In the May 2014 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, researchers published the results of a…

FIRE CHIEF LARRY Collins was welcomed to his new job at a ceremony held last Friday. He was sworn in and feted at a reception. It was an event attended by City Council members, as well as members of the Ann Arbor Fire Department and the Ann…

By Lou Glorie I’M NOT CHARLIE. It seems that almost every day some outrage is reported that sends one into a tail-spin of despair for the human soul.  The brutal attack on the Charlie Hebdo office was one of those events that seems to…