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AAPS Administrators & Staff Spend BIG On Meals Out, Travel and Luxury Hotels Then Propose Cutting Student Programs
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02:01 pm | by P.D. Lesko “We keep seeing the same names.” “It’s like there is some ‘professional class’ of board appointees.” “We need to draw from a larger group of…
May 14 2013 / 13 Comments / Read More »
03:16 pm | by P.D. Lesko John Hieftje is proposing to reappoint 10 people to the Downtown Area Citizens Advisory Commission (CAC) at City Council’s May 13th meeting. By law the CAC Board…
May 13 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More »
06:00 am | by P.D. Lesko The Downtown Area Citizens Advisory Council (CAC). Sounds official, right? It is supposed to be a group of no more than 15 mayoral appointees who,…
May 1 2013 / 20 Comments / Read More »
11:50 am | by P.D. Lesko There are five solid votes on City Council to bring to heel the members of the Downtown Development Authority Board of Directors. Those are the…
Apr 29 2013 / 11 Comments / Read More »
03:40 pm | by P.D. Lesko At the moment, Ann Arbor City Council members are trying to assert their Charter-mandated authority over the Board of the Downtown Development Authority like a…
Apr 23 2013 / 5 Comments / Read More »
06:51 pm | by P.D. Lesko Today, Jack Eaton announced his candidacy first via email to a loosely-organized group of neighborhood activists, city and county politicians. He wrote, “I wanted all…
Apr 17 2013 / 3 Comments / Read More »
10:58 am | by P.D. Lesko Ann Arbor voters have been surly as of late. They want the potholes filled, their leaves collected, and their safety services funded. They don’t want…
Mar 25 2013 / 5 Comments / Read More »
03:47 pm | by P.D. Lesko Dan Rainey, the City of Ann Arbor’s IT Director, raked in a six-figure salary as one of the highest paid employees in the city. Now,…
Mar 19 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More »
01:26 pm | by P.D. Lesko Now is the Winter of Our Discontent. To hear AAPS insiders tell it, the atmosphere at the Balas Administration building is like the Court of…
Mar 7 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More »
01:08 am | by P.D. Lesko Long-time Ann Arbor Transportation Authority Board members Jesse Bernstein and David Nacht will be “retiring.” The public story is that the two have served their…
Feb 14 2013 / 3 Comments / Read More »
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Recycling
Proposed Solid Waste Plan Includes New Building, Paid Garbage Collection, Reveals Single-Stream A Disappointment »
12:35 am | by P.D. Lesko Bernie Madoff sold a “sure thing.” He went to prison for life. Single-stream recycling was sold as a “sure thing” by Ann Arbor city staffers, politicos and their cronies. It…
Jan 8 2013 / 7 Comments / Read More »Recycle Ann Arbor Quietly Throws CEO Melinda Uerling Under the Wheels of the Compost Truck »
11:36 am | by P.D. Lesko Make no mistake. One look at the last three years of audited financial statements of Recycle Ann Arbor, and the company’s losses make it clear that CEO Melinda Uerling was…
Sep 26 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »Lanx Satura [sat-ahyuhr]: City Approves $4 Million Dollar Contract With Recycle Ann Arbor To Repossess Gift Cards Issued By RecycleBank »
06:54 pm | by Pete Nicely It was H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis or some other dead white Anglo Saxon who once sort-of said, “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a…
Sep 7 2011 / 3 Comments / Read More »Recycle Ann Arbor Has Lost 700K & Michael Garfield Thinks RAA Is Entitled To A Taxpayer Bailout »
06:00 am | To listen to Michael Garfield, head of the Ecology Center tell the story, Recycle Ann Arbor, which is controlled by Garfield and the Ecology Center, has been the victim of “miscalculation made in…
Jul 26 2011 / 9 Comments / Read More »The Wheels Come Off The Recycling Cart: Projected Collections Down 40 Percent & Recycle Ann Arbor On the Ropes Financially »
04:54 pm | A2Politico has been consistently critical of the city’s move to single-stream recycling, interviewing and quoting national experts who dubbed the move “environmentally regressive” and a “waste of taxpayer money.” A2Politico questioned the rosy collections…
Jul 6 2011 / 3 Comments / Read More »The Politics of Compost: City Staff Pushes Composting Biosolids in Solid Waste Plan »
12:51 am | On Tuesday November 16th, I sent an email letter to City Council members, as well as the heads of several local organizations, and to my friends and acquaintances, whom I know care about gardening…
Nov 29 2010 / 10 Comments / Read More »The NEW A2Politico E-Newsletter!
Urban Exile
The Political Agenda of the Michigan GOP Has Created Economic Apartheid, Not Jobs »
03:17 pm | by Rob Smith On December 12, 2012 Governor Rick Snyder was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying…
Dec 24 2012 / No Comment / Read More »Urban Exile: A Dispatch From the 47 Percent »
06:00 am | by Livia Gershon This summer, I was chatting with my parents, and I happened to mention that my husband…
Oct 1 2012 / No Comment / Read More »Urban Exile: A View From the Bottom »
06:00 am | by B. Mann It’s morning. I think of what day it is. God, please let it not be the 15th. I don’t…
Sep 25 2012 / No Comment / Read More »“Jobs and Kids. Kids and Jobs”: Gov. Snyder Tells WaPo How Mitt Romney Can Flip Michigan »
11:12 am | by Rob Smith In an August 28, 2012 video interview, Michigan’s Republican governor told WaPo interviewer Nia-Malika Henderson that…
Aug 30 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »The “Sustainable” Mantra — Organic, Local, and Slow — Won’t Save the World’s Hungry Millions »
10:38 am | by Robert Paarlberg From Whole Foods recyclable cloth bags to Michelle Obama’s organic White House garden, modern eco-foodies are…
Apr 13 2012 / 4 Comments / Read More »
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