Last weekend, shortly after having returned home to Michigan from New Mexico, where she’d moved some six months earlier, Ypsilanti artist Kim Demick passed away. While I considered Kim a friend, the truth is I didn’t know her terribly well. I think we first met at the Shadow Art Fair about 10 years ago now, […]
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Remembering Kim Demick
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Amanda Edmonds, Blake Reetz, cancer, Dan Hussong, dancing, David Ketchens, Donald Harrison, EAT, eulogy, Everyone Loves Raymond, fabric art, fashion, food, generosity, hair, Helen Harding, Jean Henry, Jefferson Market, Kim Demick, Margot Finn, Marti Gulkeisen, resiliency, Shadow Art Fair, Sleater-Kinney, Walt Whitman 16 Comments
Cheating the tax man, or maybe not
Yesterday, local blogger Steve Pierce, on his YpsiNews.com site, broke the news that Ypsilanti real estate developer and landlord Stewart Beal owed the City $86,068.80 in back taxes. He later revised the number to be $84,136.96. The error, he said, was “made by the reporter,” by which I assume he means himself… Here’s a clip […]
Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Ypsilanti Also tagged Albuquerque, brick and mortar, Brownfield plan, Burger King, HDL, local income tax, machinery, Michigan tax code, Paul McCartney, property tax, Richard Murphy, servers, Steve Pierce, Stewart Beal, Tax Man, taxes, Teresa Gillotti, Thompson Block, Washtenaw County Treasurer, Water Street, Water Street Redevelopment Project, Wireless Ypsi, Ypsilanti City budget, YpsiNews.com 53 Comments