Opinion

by  Ophira Eisenberg AS A CHILD, I would have told you that by 2014 we’d definitely have jet boots, pills for food and a woman hosting a late-night talk show. Instead we have selfies, Xanax and a bunch of white guys. When it was…

WARD 3 COUNCIL MEMBER Stephen Kunselman’s comments at a recent City Council meeting—about what some believe is a hushed-up, long-term problem with Class A drug sales and drug use in the AADL library system—illustrate a breakdown in…

I have never met Alan Goldsmith, but I have read hundreds of his comments posted to local news sites. Dr. Goldsmith called for an investigation of Council woman Marcia Higgins’ attendance record. To the credit of AnnArbor.com the news site…

WE HAVE COME to expect, sadly, the wholesale neglect of our roads by the city’s current mayor and his political allies on City Council, two of whom are currently running for mayor. In 2009, and again in 2011 state officials released a…

That Council member Chuck Warpehoski is using his position as the director of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice to push a transit millage may be legal, but it’s certainly not how I intend my charitable donations to be used. Kudos…

The article about Council member Warpehoski’s support of the AAATA millage was unfair in its characterizations of him. Our town is small and where his wife works should not come into any discussion of his decisions  to support the transit…

I finished reading the front page story about the emails between AADL trustee Prue Rosenthal and Josie Parker and was left speechless that the public was not alerted to these problems. The information may or may not have caused people to be…

THE ANN ARBOR Independent is committed to in-depth reporting on local news as well as accountability journalism. This means the newspaper relies on the Freedom of Information Act to request public records. Over the past four months, the…

SINCE NOVEMBER 2013, City Council members have shown they are prepared to more closely scrutinize proposed appointees to city boards and commissioners. Council’s newly-found backbone—comprised primarily of council members Mike Anglin in…

IN JANUARY 2011 Ann Arbor District Library Trustee Prue Rosenthal sent this email in response to news from the Library’s Executive Director that there had been two heroin overdose victims discovered at the Downtown Library: “Scary to think…