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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Community Farms and Food Assistance Program Spending
If we are going to spend billions every year on health care and food assistance programs, then we need to start investing more of that money into sustainable projects that are nearly free or can pay for themselves over time. Community farms…
EDITORIAL: “I’m a Judge. I’m a Judge.”
WHEN HIS ARREST for drunkeness was made public by the media, Washtenaw County 14-A Circuit Court Judge Kirk W. Tabbey was already well on his way to having the crime adjudicated. The judge had been charged under Michigan’s “super drunk”…
OP-ED: Jim Harbaugh Comes Back to Michigan, For Peanuts
by Joel Elconin
WITH ONE OF the most publicized head coaching searches ever coming to a conclusion, many pundits questioned if the University of Michigan may have overpaid for the services of Jim Harbaugh and his staff.
Quite the…
EDITORIAL: ‘Tis the Season for Icy Sidewalks
IN THE CITY of Ann Arbor, “property owners and/or occupants are responsible for removing/treating snow and ice on the adjacent public sidewalk,” according to local ordinance. Accumulation which has fallen prior to 6 a.m. must be cleared by…
EDITORIAL: Evaluating Human Services
WARD 3 COUNCIL member Stephen Kunselman was first threatened with recall by a member of the homeless advocacy group MISSION. A few days later, the same member of MISSION who had announced at a public Council meeting the group was behind the…
EDITORIAL: Rep. John D. Dingell, Jr.
THE REDISTRICTING THAT pitted Rep. John D. Dingell, Jr. against Rep. Lynn Rivers caused many bruised feelings when Rep. Rivers lost. To his credit (and that of his wife, soon-to-be U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell) the pair worked mightily to win…
EDITORIAL: AAATA’s Next CEO Must Have Extensive Bus Transit Experience
AAATA’S FORMER CEO Michael Ford was hired because he had experience with light rail. In the end, he was unable to do little more than spend money on staff time, studies, marketing and consultants aimed at determining when and how the WALLY…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Uber and Lyft
Lyft and Sidecar have described their services as “ride-sharing.” They’re not taxi companies, or even a driving service - instead, they provide “marketplaces” where drivers can offer their services and users can get a ride. Lyft even goes…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bias Against Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson
I originally thought this paper was going to be a more balanced paper than the Ann Arbor News, and was looking forward to reading it.
I would like to say how disturbing the Darren Wilson op-ed was to me. In a country that is being…
OP-ED: Uber
by Brady Schickinger
I TOOK MY first Uber ride in downtown Memphis this past summer from Gus’s “World Famous” Fried Chicken to my hotel. Walking to supper down Beale Street and along the Mississippi, the Blues City was alive in the…