As those of you who follow this site know, while I occasionally come out against people running for local elected office, I rarely, if ever, come out and endorse candidates, at least during primary season, when we have multiple Democrats running against one another. Well, I’ve decided to make an exception… I’m endorsing former State […]
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My friend Jeff Irwin is running for State Senate and he’d like to meet you this Wednesday in Ypsi
Posted in Ann Arbor, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 18th District, AAATA, affordable housing, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Township, Augusta Township, Bona Sera, clean air, clean water, criminal justice reform, dioxin, economic segregation, Flint, Flint Water Advisory Task Force, Flint water crisis, friends who do cooler stuff that I do, gay rights, green tea coalition, Heat and Eat, Jeff Irwin, Jim Cherewick, job creation, Kate de Fuccio, Kathryn Loomis, marijuana, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan State Senate, Milan, Partners for Transit, Pittsfield Township, political endorsements, pot, Salem Township, Saline, Superior Township, threats to public education, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, York Township, Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Township 14 Comments
If Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Public Schools could be joined with no additional cost to Ann Arbor taxpayers, bringing additional resources to Ypsi schools, might voters back it?
A few few weeks ago, I posted something here about the findings of a study on affordable housing commissioned by Washtenaw County. The published report, as you may recall, didn’t paint a very pretty picture. Our communities, according to the study’s authors, are rapidly becoming segregated, with less-well-off people, especially people of color, quickly consolidating […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged affordable housing, Ann Arbor Public Schools, Ann Arbor's economic refugees, annexation, economic segregation, Economic Segregation Index, Jcp2, poverty, public education, public school, school consolidation, segregation, Steve Norton, Washtenaw County's Affordable Housing Needs Assessment, Whitmore Lake, Willow Run, Ypsilanti Community Schools 64 Comments