Ann Arbor District Library

by P.D. Lesko Aiden Sova, current President of the Board of the Ann Arbor District Library, posted a video to his Facebook campaign page in which he identifies himself as the President of the AADL Board, speaks on behalf of the AADL,…

by P.D. Lesko Mayor Chris Taylor and his City Council allies voted unanimously on Tuesday March 4 to put what the pols claim are two connected ballot questions (Proposals A and B) on the Aug. 2025 ballot. Voters will be asked to not…

3/7/24 Correction: AADL Board President Molly Kleinman resigned from the Ann Arbor Transportation Commission on February 28, 2024. by P.D. Lesko In the final years that former AADL Director Josie Parker captained the ship, Annual…

by David Alexander THE ANN ARBOR DISTRICT District Library has submitted a grant application seeking money to fund a library-sponsored news service. The news service, preliminarily titled Civic Ticker, will operate as a living online…

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…

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…

ON MARCH 17 Ms. Josie Parker, Director of the Ann Arbor District Library, spoke before Ann Arbor City Council and confessed that “over the past 36 months” there have been “five heroin overdoses” at the main branch of the public library. In…

THE PRESIDENT OF the Ann Arbor District Library’s Board of Trustees is Prue Rosenthal. At a 2013 board meeting, a member of the public urged the AADL trustees to be more open and transparent, “asking them to allow the public to attend…

by P.D. Lesko BY NOW, MIDDLE-CLASS Democrats and independents all over the state of Michigan are reeling from the consequences of voting (or not) for a gubernatorial candidate who ran a campaign that, in essence, was short on substance…

ON MARCH 17 Ms. Josie Parker, Director of the Ann Arbor District Library, spoke before Ann Arbor City Council and confessed that “over the past 36 months” there have been “five heroin overdoses” at the main branch of the public library. The…