Candidate Interview: Donna Lasinski
DONNA LASINSKI IS on AAPS Superintendent Jeanice Kerr Swift’s Blue Ribbon Advisory commission, a group of parents who meet with Swift monthly to give her feedback and counsel. Lasinski is polite and personable. She’s tough, too, and doesn’t…
Saline Mayor Announces Endorsements, Challenger Releases Statement Touting “Successes”
IN SALINE, THE race for mayor has been contentious. Just days after Mayor Brian Marl released a statement in which he announced the endorsements of several elected officials, including county commissioners.
Challenger Lee Bourgoin shot…
Ypsilanti One of 27 Communities to Land DEQ Loan Money to Fund Wastewater and Drinking Water Projects
ON OCT. 23, the Michigan DEQ announced more than $125 million in loans to local communities to fund wastewater and drinking water projects needed to improve water quality and public health around the state. The Ypsilanti Community Utilities…
Students at County High Schools Urged to Participate in College Application Week Nov. 3-7
WASHTENAW FUTURES plans to help high school counselors and students during College Application Week to complete and submit college applications.
Ashley Kryscynski is the regional Michigan College Application Week coordinator for…
U-M Sustainability Survey Reveals 75 Percent of Faculty and Staff Snub AAATA and “Always Drive a Car” to Work
ACCORDING TO A new report titled “Monitoring the Culture of Sustainability at the University of Michigan,” dated Fall 2013, despite being provided with free rides on city buses, fewer than 10 percent of U-M’s 6,431 faculty and 35,846 staff…
CANDIDATE INTERVIEW: Ann Arbor Board of Education Incumbent: Christine Stead
CHRISTINE STEAD IS the Vice President of the AAPS Board of Education. She comes to her interview dressed conservatively. She is not an Ann Arbor Birkenstock Board Bohemian. She is warm, smooth—not smarmy—in her answers and the definition of…
Haisley Elementary First School in City to Launch Little Free Library
by Donna Iadipaolo
THIS FALL, HAISLEY Elementary School became the first school in the Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) to participate in the national “Little Free Library” (LFL) program.
The Little Free Library movement began in 2009…
Families That Won as Little as $1,000 in Mich. Lottery Cut Off From Food Assistance and Medicaid by DHS
MORE THAN 7,200 people who won at least $1,000 in the Michigan Lottery last year were living in households that received public assistance, according to a state report.
According to DHS director Maura Corrigan’s 3-page report, “In 2013,…
New Poll: Michigan Voters Back Climate Action, Clean Energy
A majority of Michigan voters prefer a candidate that supports action on climate change and clean, renewable energy, according to a new poll released today by the national League of Conservation Voters, NRDC Action Fund and NextGen Climate…
Circuit Court Candidate Veronique Liem Wants to Keep You Out of Court
by P.D. Lesko
Veronique Liem has lived in the U.S. for 40 years, but she has a European sensibility. During the primary election season, unlike Probate Court candidate Tracy Van den Bergh, Liem made campaign donations to a number of…