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Recycle Ann Arbor “Government Liaison” Gives Up Seat on Environmental Commission

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 7, 2014 0

A GROUP OF Ann Arbor City Council members including Ward 1 Council member Sumi Kailasapathy, Ward 2 Council members Jane Lumm and Sally Hart Petersen, Ward 4 Council member Jack Eaton and Ward 5 Council member Mike Anglin have been vocal…

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Gov. Appoints to New Michigan Recycling Council Owner of Company That Over-Estimated Ann Arbor Single-Stream Collections By 40 Percent Costing $10.4M

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 25, 2014 0

GOV. RICK SNYDER recently announced a statewide plan designed to increase residential recycling access statewide. He also announced appointments to a nine-member Michigan Recycling Council to guide the plan’s implementation. Jim Frey, of…

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EDITORIAL: Council Can Send A Strong Message By Rejecting Proposed Appointees to the Environmental Commission

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 6, 2014 0

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…

Fighting Entrenched Cronyism One Vote At A Time

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 23, 2013 6

by P.D. Lesko At the moment, Ann Arbor City Council members are trying to assert their Charter-mandated authority over the Board of the Downtown Development Authority like a parent trying to discipline a hopelessly out-of-control toddler…

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Five Year Solid Waste Plan Reveals Single-Stream Recycling Not Meeting Critical Goals

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jan 8, 2013 7

BETWEEN 2010 AND 2012, Berkeley, California, Walpole, Massachusetts, Auburn, Maine, and Concord, New Hampshire, among other U.S. cities voted not to adopt single-stream recycling, or abandoned single-stream recycling, according to a 2012…

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Recycle Ann Arbor Quietly Throws CEO Melinda Uerling Under the Wheels of the Compost Truck

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Sep 26, 2011 3

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,…

Recycle Ann Arbor Has Lost 700K & Michael Garfield Thinks RAA Is Entitled To A Taxpayer Bailout

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 26, 2011 9

To listen to Michael Garfield, head of the Ecology Center tell the story, Recycle Ann Arbor, which is controlled by Garfield and the Ecology Center, has been the victim of "miscalculation made in the 2010 contract" between the City of Ann…

The Wheels Come Off The Recycling Cart: Projected Collections Down 40 Percent & Recycle Ann Arbor On the Ropes Financially

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 6, 2011 3

A2Politico has been consistently critical of the city's move to single-stream recycling, interviewing and quoting national experts who dubbed the move "environmentally regressive" and a "waste of taxpayer money." A2Politico questioned the…