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…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ward 5 Council Member Faces Questions from Public and Council Members about His Ethics
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…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Heroin Dealing in the Downtown Library
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…
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…
Adventures Of A Grown-Up: Now That I Have Obamacare, I Can Avoid Going To The Doctor
by J.H. Mae
I’M FINALLY THE proud owner of a health insurance plan. It covers nothing, but if I get a kidney stone or break my coccyx, I’m covered. Thanks, Obamacare!
This isn’t an anti-Obamacare rant or a blushing endorsement, I’m…
EDITORIAL: Ann Arbor District Library and FOIA
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…
ARTS & LEISURE: In U.S. Ebook Growth Slowed to Single Digits Last Year
by Jeremy Greenfield
SAY GOODBYE TO the years of fast-paced ebook growth — at least for now. Ebook growth, once in the triple and double digits, with no signs of abating, slowed to a crawl in 2013.
According to the latest numbers from…
ARTS & LEISURE: EBook Reading, Purchasing & Publishing Predictions for 2014
by Mark Coker
SMASHWORDS IS THE world’s largest distributor of self-published ebooks. The company has helped over 50,000 authors around the world publish and distribute over 200,000 ebooks to major retailers such as the Apple iBookstore,…
THE FOODIST: Why You Should Make Friends With Bacteria… Especially In Your Food
by Jill Richardson
FLORENCE OGENDI AND her family have no refrigerator. They live in a tiny village in Kenya near Lake Victoria (and near Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, his Granny Sarah), but over 40 miles from the nearest city.…
ARTS & LEISURE: More Americans Now Reading Ebooks, New Pew Research Data Show
A HIGHER PROPORTION of U.S. adults are reading ebooks than ever before, according to new data from the Pew Internet & American Life project.
Some 28 percent of Americans read an ebook last year, up from 23 percent in 2012. Even as…