Opinion

Women Must Have Access to Safe Abortions and Contraception My father-in-law graduated from Rush Medical School (now the U. of Illinois) in 1935. Interning at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital he had patients who’d almost bled to death…

REP. ADAM ZEMKE, a Democrat, has chosen to endorse in the Ward 2 City Council Democratic primary election. We believe this is not only misguided, but demonstrates a singular lack of leadership from a state-level representative. Mr. Zemke’s…

by Sen. Elizabeth Warren  A LOT OF in this room have a lot of history. Five years ago, I was fighting hard for a new consumer agency to keep the big banks from charging families on mortgages and credit cards. I went to see a lot of…

Using Public Money to Run a For Profit Venture Capital Fund? Council members, elected officials and media: SPARK, a NON-PROFIT, is taking taxpayer money and they are managing a FOR-PROFIT fund. Tax-payer money is being…

THE MLCV CLAIMS to be a nonpartisan group. However, the group’s staff and Board of Directors are populated by former Democratic elected officials and individuals who have endorsed, and donated to Democratic candidates in Ann Arbor. We have…

ANN ARBOR STATE representatives Sen. Rebekah Warren, Rep. Jeff Irwin and Rep. Adam Zemke left Lansing for their break with crucial work undone, including a solution to funding road repairs in Michigan. Republicans are primarily to blame for…

THIS NEWSPAPER DOESN’T endorse candidates or issues. In January 2012, the Chicago Sun-Times stopped endorsing in political races. The editor of that paper explained the decision: “We have come to doubt the value of candidate endorsements by…

Domestic Violence When we think of domestic violence it is easy to think, “This doesn’t happen in my neighborhood. Domestic violence is a problem that affects only other people.”  However, the reality is very different.  Domestic…

Washtenaw County Bar Association Candidate Survey Nearly 80 percent of the respondents indicated that they did not know me. Yet 52 percent of the respondents felt my technical qualifications (defined as legal ability, legal knowledge,…

IT’S TIME FOR the Ann Arbor Parks and Recreation Department to start weekly testing of the Huron River’s water between Barton Pond and the Dixboro Dam. The Huron River Watershed Council pointedly does not test the river’s water within the…