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County Employee Credit Card Records Show Las Vegas Trips, Stays at Luxury Hotels Curtailed

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Sep 26, 2014 0

by P.D. Lesko In 2013, The Ann Arbor Independent published articles detailing county employee stays at Las Vegas casinos, resorts and 4-star hotels at taxpayer expense. Analysis of 3,600 credit card charges made in 2014 show no trips to…

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Commissioners Unaware of Investigation of Head Start Director As County Administrator Pushed to End Funding For Head Start & Transfer Administration to WISD

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 17, 2014 0

Information about the outside investigation was shared with commissioners “after the fact” and after commissioners had voted to eliminate county funding for Head Start. One commissioner asks whether the County’s funding for and…

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A2POLITICO: Paying Attention to the “Public’s Perception”—Grudgingly

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 10, 2014 0

by P.D. Lesko THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES had taken the majority of the chairs out of the waiting room and into a conference room, where a gaggle of them were gathered around a table having a meeting. The waiting room was full of people…

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Former County Head Start Director’s Extensive Travel Months Before Retirement, Including A Trip To Hawaii, Received “Verbal” Approval

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 26, 2014 0

Washtenaw County’s former Head Start Director Patricia McGee was put on leave weeks before she retired in December 2011. A county official told a reporter in December 2011 that Ms. McGee was being investigated due to unspecified…