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City Council Member Responds on Twitter to Allegations of Ethical Lapse Related to His Support of AAATA Millage
Pease note: Kai Petainen is a member of The Ann Arbor Independent’s Editorial Board.
WARD 5 COUNCIL member Chuck Warpehoski is facing persistent questions from the public, his Council colleagues and his opponent in the August 5…
AADL Library Trustee Nancy Kaplan Launches City Council Campaign In Ward 2
NANCY KAPLAN, A current member of the Ann Arbor District Library Board of Trustees, recently launched a run for Ann Arbor City Council to represent Ward 2. Kaplan, a retired physical therapist, was elected to the AADL Board of Trustees in…
Ward 5 Resident Leon Bryson Decides To Run for City Council: “We need to get citizens more involved in decision-making.”
LEON BRYSON, a Ward 5 resident, has taken out nominating petitions, and is gathering signatures to have his name put on the ballot for the August 5 primary election. Bryson, a Democrat, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering from…
As Of December 21 Rep. Tim Walberg Out-Fundraising Challenger Former State Rep. Pam Byrnes Almost 2 To 1
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE records show that as of the December 21, 2013 campaign finance disclosure deadline U.S. 7th District incumbent Tim Walberg had raised $713,195 and former Michigan Representative Pam Byrnes, a Democrat, had raised…
Koch Brothers PAC Pumping Money Into Michigan’s U.S. Senate Race
Democrat Gary Peters is being targeted by the Koch PAC for his support of Obamacare.
DEMOCRATS ARE FACING their toughest Michigan Senate fight in two decades.
A sour national political climate, a little-known candidate and big…
A2POLITICO: You Want What? “We Can’t Possibly Fix All The Roads.”
by P.D. Lesko
THE LAST TIME Julie Grand ran for City Council, she told a room full of voters at a Democratic candidate forum: “And I don’t know that we can get every road paved in the neighborhood. I don’t know that we can fix all of the…
Ward 2 Council Member Petersen Announces She’ll Run For Mayor: Move Mirrors Hieftje’s Path To The Gavel
ANN ARBOR CITY Council member Sally Hart Petersen announced in a press release sent to the media on January 14 that she plans to run for mayor. Petersen, elected to represent Ward 2 in 2012, unseated former state legislator Tony Derezinski…
In The Michigan 7th Dem Pam Byrnes Has Her Work Cut Out To Unseat Rep. Walberg
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE Pam Byrnes has taken aim at the U.S. Congressional seat held by Republican Tim Walberg. Byrnes, back from two years in China working as the Executive Director at the University of Michigan Shanghai Jiao Tong University…
Let the Polling Begin: With 1 Year Until Governor’s Election, Pundits Weigh In
ON NOVEMBER 8th, Huff Post Politics writer Ashley Woods posted a piece titled, “Michigan Governor Poll Shows Close Race Between Rick Snyder, Mark Schauer.” In her piece Woods writes, “The contest for Michigan’s governor’s race may be closer…
OP-ED: The Political Agenda of the Michigan GOP Has Created Economic Apartheid, Not Jobs
by Rob C. Smith
IN DECEMBER 2012 Governor Rick Snyder was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying that “Michigan is well-positioned for a comeback.” A few days later, for the third year, Forbes Magazine ranked Michigan 47th in Forbes’…