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WCC President’s Credit Card Records: Meals Out Curbed, But Charges for Limos & the Ritz

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jan 25, 2015 0

by P.D. Lesko Records show that Dr. Bellanca’s assistant’s credit card is being used to charge items previously charged to the president’s college-issued credit card, including charges for limousine services and $2,000 worth of stays at…

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Mayoral Candidate Snubs Ann Arbor News Endorsement He Competed to Get

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 24, 2014 6

NEWSPAPER endorsements are controversial for any number of reasons not the least among which is that readers can interpret endorsements as a paper supporting a particular candidate. Over the past several years, papers from the Chicago…

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Ann Arbor Residents Submitted More Freedom of Information Act Requests Than Local News Media in 2013

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 8, 2014 0

by Rob Smith ACCORDING TO THE City of Ann Arbor’s log of FOIA requests submitted between January 2013 and May 2014 519 FOIA requests were submitted to the Ann Arbor City Clerk’s office. Thirty-three of the 519 requests came from The Ann…

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A2POLITICO: AAATA Betrays Voters’ Trust (and The Ann Arbor News)

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 26, 2014 0

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…