Tag Archives: millage

Just imagine how awesome of a wall we’d have around Ann Arbor if, of the past 40 years, we’d invested in bricks instead of the AATA

By Mark | April 14, 2014

I should know better than to try to make sense of the arguments being offered by the rag tag band anti-tax activists who have come together to fight the AAATA millage we’ll be voting on next month, but, when I heard that they’d launched a website, I thought that I’d check it out, and see […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-tax, Better Transit Now, buses, Carolyn Grawi, commuter rail, elections, go!pass, Keep Ypsi Rollin', Lou Glorie, Martha Valadez, mass transit, More Buses, Murph, n-word, NightRide, parking, poverty, public transportation, race and poverty, racism, Richard Murphy, tea party, the growing gap between rich and poor, trains, transit, transportation funding, transportation planning, unfounded accusations, University of Michigan, WALLY, Ypsi bus routes, Ypsilanti Township | 73 Comments

Let me pour you a beer at Thursday’s More Buses fundraiser

By Mark | April 1, 2014

Remember how, a few weeks ago, I told you about the local campaign to increase public transportation options by 44% in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor? Well, now that we’re just a a month away from the May 6 vote, things are beginning to intensify, and both the pro-public transportation More Buses folks, and the anti-public […]

Posted in Local Business, Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged beer, Beezy's, Better Transit Now, Bona Sera, buses, Corner brewery, fundraisers, Keep Ypsi Rollin', Ladies Literary Club, More Buses, public transportation, Sidetrack, Washtenaw Partners for Transit | 14 Comments

More Buses vs. Better Transit Now: the two sides square off in preparation for the May 6 vote on the future of mass transit in Ypsi/Arbor

By Mark | February 26, 2014

On May 6, the citizens of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township are going to have an opportunity to go to their local polling places and weigh in on whether or not they want to enact a milage that would allow the Ann Arbor Area Transit Authority (AAATA) to plan to dramatically expand services. The […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Rail, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAATA, AATA, AirRide, Alexis Blizman, Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, Ann Arbor Area Transit Authority, Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-tax, Better Transit Now, buses, Carolyn Grawi, commuter rail, elections, go!pass, Keep Ypsi Rollin', Lou Glorie, Martha Valadez, mass transit, More Buses, Murph, NightRide, parking, public transportation, Richard Murphy, tea party, trains, transit, transportation funding, transportation planning, unfounded accusations, University of Michigan, WALLY, Ypsi bus routes, Ypsilanti Township | 48 Comments

Ypsilanti Immigration Interview: Erika Nelson

By Mark | February 1, 2012

Earlier this winter, on one of our small Occupy Ypsi marches around the city, I met a woman by the name of Erika. She’d apparently been living here in Ypsi for a few years, but, somehow, our paths had never crossed, even though we had several friends in common. Well, over the course of the […]

Posted in History, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AATA, Ann Arbor, armed robbery, bond debt, charter mandate, crime, death care, Eastern Michigan University, Erika Nelson, Ferndale, funerals, gun violence, Headlee, home buying, home funerals, home invasions, hospice, income tax, interviews, Lansing, local income tax, Mayor Schreiber, midwifery, Oakwood, Obama, Paul Schreiber, Pittsfield Township, property taxes, Proposition A, Royal Oak, sense of place, the funeral industry, the future of Ypsilanti, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti police department | 8 Comments

How are things in Ypsi likely to change, if the city income tax doesn’t pass?

By Mark | January 26, 2012

Our last few posts about the proposed city income tax have not only initiated a lot of good, substantive conversations, but they’ve also led to quite a few more questions. Case in point… a couple of days ago, I received the following note from a reader of this site named Erika. Hi Mark, thanks for […]