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OP-ED: An Education is Rarely Cheap, but you Don’t Have to Order the Caviar
by John Schneider
I’LL KEEP MY college commencement speech brief.
Dear graduates: Quit whining about your debts. You’re smart people. You were aware of the options. You made the calculation that an education was worth the financial…
EDITORIAL: Knee-Jerk Liberalism Doesn’t Benefit Ann Arbor
ANN ARBOR CITY Council members recently passed a resolution urging the State’s Attorney General to stop defending Michigan’s ban against gay marriage. In 2011, Ann Arbor City Council went on the record objecting to a Republican-backed drive…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Protected Bike Lanes
As long as I’ve lived in Ann Arbor, I’ve found most in-town bicyclists to be self-centered, stupid and dangerous. Most of the “facts” in your article are cherry-picked and irrelevant to local conditions. The only…
EDITORIAL: Accountability
CITY ADMINISTRATOR STEVE Powers was hired in 2011. His job performance during the past 3 years has not yet been evaluated by City Council. The Charter requires Council to evaluate both the City Administrator and the City Attorney annually.…
OP-ED: Op-Ed: Want To Stop More Mass Killings? Don’t Assume Shooters Are Just Mentally Ill
by Steve Rosenfeld
WHAT COULD HAVE been done? What can be done now? These are the questions on most people’s minds after another senseless mass shooting, this one near the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Southern California…
EDITORIAL: Michigan’s Minimum Wage Hike is Penny Wise & Pound Foolish
LANSING REPUBLICANS DODGED what their leaders believe was a bullet in raising the state’s minimum wage from the current $7.40 to $9.25 by 2018 and indexing it to inflation thereafter. The minimum wage for tipped employees rose from $2.65 to…
OP-ED: Why All The Political Hand-Wringing and Fuss Over Gen Y?
By P.D. Lesko
LOOKING FOR WHAT is called a reliable voter? Look for a white woman aged 70 and above (a Baby Boomer), according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Looking for the least reliable voter on whom a candidate should think twice about…
EDITORIAL: We All Pay Dearly For Voter Apathy
THE CITY’S ROADS are a wreck despite an additional millage dedicated to street repair that generates between $8-11 million annually. Our city’s water and sewer infrastructures have been allowed to crumble, with large portions of those…
EDITORIAL: John Conyers, Bob Dascola and Those Really Challenged When Running for Elected Office
25-TERM CONGRESSMAN John Conyers and would-be Ann Arbor City Council candidate Bob Dascola have a lot in common at the moment. Both men are fighting to have their respective names appear on the August 5 Democratic primary ballot. Dascola is…
OP-ED: Shooting Racist Fish in a Barrel? Try a Little Harder
LISTENING TO THE radio, I caught part of a conversation between sportswriters Dan Le Batard and Bomani Jones. They were talking about the Donald Sterling incident and, for the most part, Jones was saying exactly what I feel about the whole…