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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Everyone Deserves To Earn A Living Wage
That is what I heard as I listened to the President of the United States speak at the University of Michigan. Think about these words one more time: Everyone - you, your mom, your brother, sister, your neighbor down the street - all of us…
EDITORIAL: The Art of Compromise
IN 2007 A FORMER Ward 3 Council member emailed his Council colleagues “talking points” for a meeting to be scheduled with Mayor John Hieftje. Hieftje had threatened to veto the police-courts building and Leigh Greden suggested to fellow…
OP-ED: Hey Vegans, Don’t Be Jerks—It Helps No One to Judge Their Food Choices
by Jill Richardson
REALLY, I’M NOT judging you. But I often find it necessary to establish myself as “not a threat” to meat eaters. I also occasionally bump up against militant vegans.
Consider this collision I had the other day…
OP-ED: Barriers Facing African-American Children Are a Community Issue
by La June Montgomery Tabron
RECENT FINDINGS FROM the Kids Count report have been hard to accept. The report titled, “Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children,” by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, indicates that…
EDITORIAL: Schauer and Brown Must Show Voters Their Plan to Rebuild Michigan’s Economy
DEMOCRAT MARK SCHAUER’S choice of former state legislator Lisa Brown as his running mate serves notice that the Democrat’s 2014 gubernatorial strategy will focus on Michigan’s social fabric, which has become badly frayed over the past 36…
OP-ED: Did CBS Even Consider Hiring a Woman?
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…
EDITORIAL: Chief of Police Needs to Keep Council Apprised
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…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ward 5 Council Member Faces Questions from Public and Council Members about His Ethics
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…
EDITORIAL: What About The Roads?
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…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ward 5 Council Member Faces Questions from Public and Council Members about His Ethics
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…