This past May 2nd, Bob Tetens, the director of the Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission, came to Ypsilanti at the behest of Washtenaw County Commissioner Ronnie Peterson, and explained to us why it was that, after five years, he and his team still hadn’t broken ground on the downtown recreation center that we’d all […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bob Tetens, Conan Smith, David Rutledge, Linda French, Parks and Recreation Master Plan, River Walk Commons, Ronnie Peterson, soil contamination, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission, Water Street, Water Street Flats, Yousef Rabhi |
In Ypsilanti, because we generally vote Democrat, our City Council races are pretty much decided during the primary. And, in hopes of ensuring that voters are educated before placing their primary votes on August 2, The League of Women Voters hosted a forum this evening, during which the four individuals running for Ypsi City Council […]
Posted in Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Beth Bashert, City Manager, debates, elections, Jennifer Symanns, League of Women Voters, Liz Dahl MacGregor, primary elections, Ralph Lange, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 2, Ypsilanti Ward 3 |
The Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation recently awarded a $1,000 grant to Melissa Stek, a Masters of Social Work student at the University of Michigan. Stek, who received the award on behalf of the Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights teen group with which she works, had the following to say about the public mural project […]
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alejandro Chinchilla, Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, Awesome Foundation, community organizing, Dos Hermanos, immigrant rights, immigrants, immigration reform, Lois Richardson, Martha Valadez, Melissa Stek, murals, political organizing, support groups, teens, undocumented resident, Washtenaw ID Project, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, WICIR, WICIR teen group, Ypsilanti City Council |
By Mark | December 5, 2014
On Tuesday evening, our City Council voted to approve a resolution making funds available, among other things, for the purchase of 15 body cameras to be worn by Ypsilanti police officers while on patrol. As readers of site know, this is something that I’ve been pushing for since first reading about the results of a […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Ypsilanti | Also tagged body cameras, Citizens Police Academy, Community Policing, Eastern Michigan University, Eastern Washtenaw Safety Alliance, EMU, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Leforge Road, Michael Brown, police brutality, police tactics, public safety, public safety officer, regional cooperation, Rialto, school shooting, Staten Island, surveillance culture, SWAT, the militarization of the police, Tony DeGiusti, transparency, video surveillance, Wayne, YCAT, Ypsilanti Community Action Team, Ypsilanti police department |
By Mark | October 16, 2014
Yesterday evening, Andrew Clock, the director of the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival, announced on Facebook that he’d been asked by his board to step down from the position which he’d held since January, 2012. As his tenure at the festival started with an interview on this site, I thought it only fitting that we’d speak again […]
