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Proposed Solid Waste Plan Includes New Building, Paid Garbage Collection, Reveals Single-Stream A Disappointment »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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The Political Agenda of the Michigan GOP Has Created Economic Apartheid, Not Jobs »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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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Ward 3 Council Race Asks: Should We Prostitute Our Parks? One Candidate’s Votes = “Leave Your Money On the Dresser, Baby.” »

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 their parkland used for parking. They don’t want to pay $45 million to build a train station. They don’t want Huron Hills Golf Course operations outsourced. They…

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03:17 pm | by Rob Smith On December 12, 2012 Governor Rick Snyder was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying that “Michigan is well-positioned for a comeback.” A few days later, for the third year, Forbes Magazine ranked Michigan 47th in Forbes’ Best States for Business and Careers list. In a piece accompanying the ranking Governor Snyder offered up a mess…

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06:55 pm | by P.D. Lesko The AnnArborChronicle.com recently called out AnnArbor.com politics reporter Ryan Stanton for accepting an AP reporting award for a news piece that misinterpreted available data. In the same piece, the news blog also called out former AA.com Kontent King Tony Dearing for being ethically challenged. It’s uncommon for news sites to slam the…

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03:45 pm | by P.D. Lesko Groupon was founded and is headed by graduates from the University of Michigan. In January 2012, former AnnArbor.con business reporter Nathan Bomey wrote a glowing piece about Groupon, its founders and their connection to the local “job innovator” scene. The Groupon “success story” should be seen as more of a cautionary tale…

Aug 20 2012 / No Comment / Read More »
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01:41 pm | by P.D. Lesko John Hieftje and his political pals have a reputation of ignoring public opinion. Perhaps the most egregious example was a 2008 Council meeting at which petitions with…

Jan 14 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More »

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