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Mitch Irwin

Former Ann Arbor City Attorney Files Suit to Force City to Identify Staff Members in Report Used to Fire City Administrator

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 26, 2022

by P.D. Lesko R. Bruce Laidlaw, the Ann Arbor City Attorney between 1978 and 1991 and an Assistant City Attorney for six years before that, sent an email on Feb. 25 to Ann Arbor’s Mayor Chris Taylor, City Attorney Stephen Postema and…

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On Using the LGBTQ Community & Desperation Politics: An Open Letter to Ward 3 Council Member Travis Radina

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Apr 12, 2021 0

by Patricia Lesko When I ran for office against John Hieftje in 2010, a man named Phil Volk, then a leading member of Ann Arbor's gay community, published an opinion piece in which he said I was an "embarrassment to the gay community."…

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Mitchell Irwin Sentenced on Domestic Violence Charge

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 23, 2021 41

On March 23, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. Ann Arbor 15th District Court Judge Miriam A. Perry sentenced former Michigan state senator Mitchell L. Irwin on a single charge of domestic violence, a misdemeanor. Irwin is the father of Michigan state…