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Ypsilanti City Council

Ypsi Business Owners Continue to Ask for Improved Downtown Safety: Protesters Demand Free Toilets and Fewer Police

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Oct 17, 2024

by P.D. Lesko About 100 people attended the October 15, 2024 Ypsilanti City Council meeting. Inside the Council chambers, protesters repeatedly disrupted Council's efforts to discuss Resolution No. 2024-240 "Directing the city manager…

Elections

Ypsilanti Council Member Survives Recall Election

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 9, 2024

by P.D. Lesko Democrat Desirae Simmons, the embattled Ward 3 Ypsilanti City Council member, won her May 7, 2024 recall election against challenger Democrat Rod Johnson. Simmons captured 52.06 percent of the vote. Turnout for the special…

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Swing Your Partner, Do-Si-Do: Ypsi City Council Votes (Again) Not to Purchase $3.7M Building for DPS Depot

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Dec 7, 2023

by P.D. Lesko To buy or not to buy. That has been the question before Ypsilanti City Council since Nov. 2023. In the space of one month, Council members have voted four times on the purchase of a $3.7 million property at 599 S.…

Elections

Ypsilanti Mayor and Two City Council Members Face Recall: Here’s How the Recall Works

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Nov 28, 2023

Nov. 30, 2023 Correction: Jennifer Symanns represents Ward 2, not Ward 1. by P.D. Lesko Brian Jones-Chance, a former Ypsilanti City Council member, sits on the Ypsilanti Planning Commission. Jones-Chance stands to make over $100,000…

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A2Politico: Ypsilanti’s Local Government is a Dumpster Fire, With No Water in Sight

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Nov 16, 2023

by P.D. Lesko Ypsilanti is a Third World country thanks to the stunning ineptitude and ethically suspect conduct of the City's elected and appointed officials. Public records show Ypsilanti's former City Manager Frances McMullen…

County Government

Ypsi Police Chief and County Sheriff Sign Secret “Mutual Aid Agreement” Without Votes of Elected Officials

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 31, 2023

Ypsi Police Chief Kirk L. Moore, in a secret memo to his staff provided to The Ann Arbor Independent, says the YPD is undermanned and can't investigate capital crimes such as murder and attempted murder. In the memo, he announces he has…

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Media to Blame for Ypsilanti’s Negative Image Says City’s Mayor Pro Tem Lois Richardson

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 25, 2015 0

The Ann Arbor Independent’s EMU intern Ryan Hunter sat down with Ypsilanti Mayor Pro Tempore Lois Richardson to talk about blight, crime, education and her city’s reputation in the media. by Ryan Hunter FOR MOST PUBLIC officials,…

Ann Arbor Government

Four Years Later Ethics Problems Still Haunt EMU Governmental Relations Director

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Sep 9, 2013 9

The only former Ann Arbor City Council member having a worse time of it politically than Downtown Development Authority Board member Joan Lowenstein (former Ward 2 Council member) is former Ward 3 Council member Leigh Greden. Lowenstein,…

Interview: Will Michigan Voters Fire Rick Snyder? FireRickSnyder Organizers Talk to A2Politico.

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 9, 2011 20

On April 18, 2011 A2Politico posted a piece titled, "The Politics of Buyer's Remorse: Group Files Petition to Recall Governor Rick Snyder." The post was shared over 500 times on Facebook and Twitter. In that piece, I wrote: When Republican…