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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ann Arbor SPARK Running a For Profit Venture Capital Fund?
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…
EDITORIAL: Michigan League of Conservation Voters’ Reportcard
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…
EDITORIAL: Ann Arbor State Reps Must Focus on Bipartisanship
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…
EDITORIAL: Don’t Rely on Endorsements
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…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Domestic Violence
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…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bar Association Poll
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,…
EDITORIAL: No Swimming Allowed—Weekly Tests of the Huron River Necessary
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…
EDITORIAL: Eager to Interpret the Law, But Unclear on Following it
SEVERAL OF THE the eight candidates running for two seats on the Washtenaw County Trial Court have their campaign yard signs planted on public property. The signs appear on public property throughout Ann Arbor, including one at the…
EDITORIAL: Overpaid Teachers and Underpaid Administrators
THE AUDIT RELEASED by Ann Arbor Public Schools officials was prepared in part by an auditing firm and in part by a human resource consulting firm from Birmingham. The June 22 document draws on data compiled by the Michigan Department of…
EDITORIAL: “I Can’t Explain What SPARK Does.”
WARD 1 COUNCIL member Sabra Briere has repeatedly said she (and by extension, the public) cannot be certain that Ann Arbor SPARK is responsible for the jobs the entity’s employees claim their programs and services help create and retain. In…