Ann Arbor News

SINCE NOVEMBER 2013, City Council members have shown they are prepared to more closely scrutinize proposed appointees to city boards and commissioners. Council’s newly-found backbone—comprised primarily of council members Mike Anglin in…

LEON BRYSON, a Ward 5 resident,  has taken out nominating petitions, and is gathering signatures to have his name put on the ballot for the August 5 primary election. Bryson, a Democrat, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering from…

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE has remained largely unchanged in the past three months despite the hard winter, as well as a severe drought. Consumer finances were just as strong in March as in December 2013, and more importantly, consumers viewed…

Since the 2010 outsourcing by City Council of the city’s composting program to WeCare Organics, a company based in New York, the per cubic yard price of compost has risen from $10-$12 to $18-$20 per cubic yard. The Charter Township of…

FORMER WARD 4 City Council member Marcia Higgins, along with Mayoral candidates Christopher Taylor and Sabra Briere all voted to allow the city’s parkland to be “repurposed” for “transit.” It was Higgins who inserted language into a zoning…

The Koch brothers, billionaires, have created a tangled web of 17 nonprofits, PACs and businesses through which they funneled over $400 million dollars in 2012 aimed at influencing national and state politics. Most companies doing business…

by P.D. Lesko THIS NEWSPAPER, UNLIKE  many in the United States, has a regular column that deals with the issues of hunger, homelessness and poverty in our city, state and nation. “Urban Exile” is not fluffy feel-good journalism. The…

CLOUD TECHNOLOGY and wider use of freelancers has more people working from home, remotely or even from coffee houses. Being away from the rigid hierarchy of office cubes suits many, but some miss collaborating with colleagues. Enter…

ON MARCH 11 The Ann Arbor Independent published its results of an analysis of almost 14,000 credit card charges made by Washtenaw County employees between 2011 and 2014. That analysis revealed multiple charges for luxury lodging, meals out…

County Administrator Verna McDaniel says Ann Arbor Commissioners Rabhi and LaBarre asked her to prepare a report that addressed  The Ann Arbor Independent’s March 11 story that documents county employee and elected officials’ stays at Las…