I’d heard from folks that one of the men who led the opposition to Ypsilanti’s proposed income tax the last time that it was on the ballot was planning to get involved again this time around, and I’d been standing by, patiently waiting to see how his anger would manifest itself. Well, I got my […]
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The fight over the Ypsi income tax is now officially on
This summer will mark the tenth anniversary of MarkMaynard.com… What, if anything, should we do to mark the occasion?
It’s recently been brought to my attention that this blog, assuming I can stay alive for a few more months, and keep dragging my fat fingers across the keyboard of this old computer, will turn ten years old in August. The person who wrote to me, and alerted me to this fact, wanted to know […]
Unbiased newsman Steve Pierce weighs in with the fair and balanced “facts”
I thought, when I did my last post about malicious and deceitful political ads, that we were done for now, but, according to AnnArbor.com, we have a late entry. It seems as though Ypsilanti’s Steve Pierce has been distributing handbills targeting Paul Schreiber – the man who defeated him in the race for Mayor four […]
Ypsi Solar City Hall update
I just received the following update from Ypsi Solar’s Dave Strenski and thought that I’d pass it along: Ypsilanti’s City Hall solar graphs are now online. You can find the graphs here. Many thanks to EMU student Nik Estep for doing a wonderful job on the SolarYpsi.org website… As expected, the solar panels are only […]
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 […]