The Price of Competition: Pay-to-Play Fees Bench Athletes from Low-Income Families
ANN ARBOR PUBLIC Schools’ audits reveal that each year the district takes in around $750,000 in athletic fees, including pay-to-pay fees. The annual $250 pay-to-play fee is waived for kids who receive reduced price breakfast or lunch.…
Covering Your Nut: Performance Network Theatre Crowdfunds for “Non-production based expenses”
by Christian Usera
THE ANN ARBOR Independent has published two articles regarding Performance Network Theater’s (PNT) beleaguered finances, missing tax filings and the non-profit’s loss of its “Right to Solicit” licensure from the State…
63 Crimes Reported by AAPD Jan 8-Jan. 15, 2015, Including Multiple Home Invasions
DURING THE SECOND week of January, there were six burglaries reported by the AAPD, including three forced entry home invasions. There were three instances of identity theft reported, and one sexual assault. There were six DUIs reported and…
Jan. 26 Arab, Jewish Women Share “Peacemaking” Stories in Film, Panel Discussion at U-M
A film screening and panel discussion of “Refusing to be Enemies: The Zeitouna Story.”
by William Foreman
ON JAN. 26, 2015, the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women and the Minerva Project is sponsoring a showing…
Film based on U-M Professor’s Controversial Graphic Novel to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival
by Sydney Hawkins
LONG BEFORE LENA Dunham brought her groundbreaking depiction of the sexual life of post-college women to HBO’s “Girls,” a University of Michigan professor shocked audiences with her novel, The Diary of a Teenage Girl.…
Washtenaw County Offers Half-Price Radon Test Kits During Radon Action Month
by Angela Parsons
JANUARY IS NATIONAL Radon Action Month. Half-priced radon test kits are available at Washtenaw County Public Health’s Environmental Health Division and the Ypsilanti Township Supervisor’s Office through January 30,…
WCC President’s Credit Card Records: Meals Out Curbed, But Charges for Limos & the Ritz
by P.D. Lesko
Records show that Dr. Bellanca’s assistant’s credit card is being used to charge items previously charged to the president’s college-issued credit card, including charges for limousine services and $2,000 worth of stays at…
EDITORIAL: Ann Arbor is Not Ferguson
THE INVESTIGATION INTO the police shooting of Aura Rosser is complete and the Michigan State Police have handed their findings over to the City of Ann Arbor as well as the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s office. County Prosecutor Mackie will…
Washtenaw County Prosecutor Authorizes Charges Against AAPD Officer Jason J. Kitts
by John Ball
In May and June 2014, citizen complaints filed with the Ann Arbor Police Department included several from women alleging that an officer named Jason J. Kitts had offered to waive traffic tickets in exchange for sexual…
EDITORIAL: Thank You Gov. Snyder
FROM FOIA TO concealed weapons, last week Gov. Rick Snyder showed some of the “moderation” that has been missing from his leadership over the past four years. While campaigning, Snyder never professed to be a moderate Republican. Neither…
