by Patricia Lesko Chip Smith (D-Ward 5), Zach Ackerman (D-Ward 3) and Jason Frenzel (D-Ward 1) have put forward a Council resolution that would require city staff to negotiate a contract with Recycle Ann Arbor (RAA)—a subsidiary of the…

by P.D. Lesko ONE OF THE first things the mayoral appointees on the Board of AAATA bus system did after spending millions of dollars to pass a $4.4 million annual millage was to raise AAATA CEO Michael Ford’s salary and pay him $174,836…

Updated: On April 28, AAATA Board member Dr. Laurence Krieg, who represents Ypsilanti, made a late donation of $3,000 to the Partners For Transit Ballot Committee. The AAATA Board member has donated a total of $3,500. This donation means…

A COMMITTEE CALLING itself Partners For Transit (PFT) filed papers to register with Washtenaw County’s Elections Division in 2010; the date the committee was formed is listed on the Statement of Organization as November 18, 2009. The…

On June 30, 2012, the The Sierra Club, Huron Valley Group, and Sierra Club, Michigan Chapter announced that the groups had bestowed one of the most sought after political endorsements in the United States onto Fifth Ward Council…

by P.D. Lesko Third Ward Council member Stephen Kunselman has been a pain in John Hieftje's butter dish ever since Kunselman knocked off Leigh Greden in the 2009 stunner of a primary election. While Kunselman won by a 6 vote margin, Greden…

by P.D. Lesko Despite her continued opposition to the city's Greenbelt millage, money that city officials have used to purchase thousands of acres of land (tip o' the keyboard to Rita Mitchell), including farmland, in the area…

On September 15th, former Second Ward Council member Jane Lumm (pictured right), who is challenging current Second Ward Council member Stephen Rapundalo, dropped what A2Politico described on September 15, 2011 as an endorsement "bomb."…

MAKE NO MISTAKE. One look at the last three years of financial statements of Recycle Ann Arbor, and the company's losses make it clear that CEO Melinda Uerling was struggling to keep the company, controlled by the Ann Arbor Ecology Center,…