It would seem that Ralph Lange, our new city manager, has made up his mind that we should merge Ypsilanti’s Police and Fire departments in hopes of further delaying landfall of the category-five fiscal storm gathering on the horizon. He’s admittedly in a tough spot, and I’m sympathetic. He’s trying to radically cut spending, in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Brian Robb, city income tax, city services, class warfare, consolidation of services, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Manager, hypocrisy, Karen Maurer, local income tax, mutual aid, perfect storm, PSO, public safety, public safety officer, Ralph Lange, redistribution of wealth, Rick Snyder, Stop City Income Tax, taxes, the concentration of wealth, threats to the middle class, Water Street, wealth inequality, Ypsilanti Fire Department, Ypsilanti police department | By Mark | November 6, 2012 OK, I’ve got my beer and I’m in front of a television… let’s do this, America. 8:13 I just talked with Growing Hope’s Amanda Edmonds. She heard from a friend of hers this morning that there was a handwritten sign telling voters at the Huron County Township Hall that state-issued voter ID was mandatory. Amanda [...]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alan Grayson, Amanda Edmonds, Bridget M. McCormack, Carol Kuhnke, collective bargaining, Congress, Connie Marie Kelley, Debbie Stabenow, Donald Trump, Election Day, election results, electronic voting, Elizabeth Warren, Florida, Gretchen Driskell, Indiana, Jeff Meyers, Jim Fink, Kerry Bentivolio, legitimate rape, Mark Ouimet, Massachusetts, Michele Bachmann, Obama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pete Hoekstra, Presidential politics, rape, Richard Mourdock, Romney, Senate, Shelia Johnson, solar powered abortion equipment, Syed Taj, Tammy Baldwin, tea party, Thayrone X, Todd Akin, Van Jones, Victoria Jackson, Virginia, voter suppression, WAAM, Wisconsin | By Mark | September 1, 2012 According to a report posted yesterday at AnnArbor.com, a well-known Ypsilanti man by the name of Leonardo Devinci Christian has been arrested on multiple criminal sexual charges, which include “one count of sexual penetration with an uninformed partner when there’s risk of AIDS, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison.” [...]
Proving the old adage – “yard signs don’t vote” – to be true, Mike Eller and Steve Pierce, in spite of the fact that their campaign signs outnumbered those of their Democratic opponents by an order of magnitude (thanks to the support of several local landlords), came up short today in their joint quest for [...]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged America First Party of Michigan, Chuck Warpehoski, democratic primary, election results, homophobia, Karen Maurer, Lois Richardson, Mike Eller, Pete Murdock, primary elections, racism, separation of church and state, sexism, Stop City Income Tax, Ted Windish, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilanti Ward 1, Ypsilanti Ward 3 | I told myself this weekend that I was done writing about the Ypsilanti City Council race, but, now that I sit here, thinking over how I’m going to vote tomorrow, I find that I have one more thing that I’d like to say… Before I get to it, though, I’d like to preface it by [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged America First Party, democratic primary, local income tax, Mike Eller, Murph, Pete Murdock, political endorsements, primary elections, Richard Murphy, Stop City Income Tax, Ypsilanti City Council | 
