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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…