Tag Archives: Ypsilanti Township

Just imagine how awesome of a wall we’d have around Ann Arbor if, of the past 40 years, we’d invested in bricks instead of the AATA

By Mark | April 14, 2014

I should know better than to try to make sense of the arguments being offered by the rag tag band anti-tax activists who have come together to fight the AAATA millage we’ll be voting on next month, but, when I heard that they’d launched a website, I thought that I’d check it out, and see […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-tax, Better Transit Now, buses, Carolyn Grawi, commuter rail, elections, go!pass, Keep Ypsi Rollin', Lou Glorie, Martha Valadez, mass transit, millage, More Buses, Murph, n-word, NightRide, parking, poverty, public transportation, race and poverty, racism, Richard Murphy, tea party, the growing gap between rich and poor, trains, transit, transportation funding, transportation planning, unfounded accusations, University of Michigan, WALLY, Ypsi bus routes | 73 Comments

Ypsilanti Township official calls the proposed Water Street Flats low-income housing development a “terrible waste of taxpayer dollars” that will be disastrous for Ypsi… Does she have a point?

By Mark | February 26, 2014

Yesterday, Ypsilanti Township Clerk Karen Lovejoy Roe took it upon herself to send her thoughts on our proposed downtown low-income housing development, Water Street Flats, to members of both the Township Board of Trustees and our City Council. You can find her entire letter on Councilman Brian Robb’s website. For those of you who don’t […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Habitat for Humanity, Karen Lovejoy Roe, low-income housing, MSHDA, Nicole Markovits, poverty, Save Ypsilanti's Water Street, Scott Straley, section 8 | 61 Comments

More Buses vs. Better Transit Now: the two sides square off in preparation for the May 6 vote on the future of mass transit in Ypsi/Arbor

By Mark | February 26, 2014

On May 6, the citizens of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township are going to have an opportunity to go to their local polling places and weigh in on whether or not they want to enact a milage that would allow the Ann Arbor Area Transit Authority (AAATA) to plan to dramatically expand services. The […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Rail, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAATA, AATA, AirRide, Alexis Blizman, Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, Ann Arbor Area Transit Authority, Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-tax, Better Transit Now, buses, Carolyn Grawi, commuter rail, elections, go!pass, Keep Ypsi Rollin', Lou Glorie, Martha Valadez, mass transit, millage, More Buses, Murph, NightRide, parking, public transportation, Richard Murphy, tea party, trains, transit, transportation funding, transportation planning, unfounded accusations, University of Michigan, WALLY, Ypsi bus routes | 48 Comments

Claiming it’s about taking pride in their community and history, a group of Ypsilanti Township residents moves to change the name that their community has had since its inception, dropping the “Ypsilanti”

By Mark | October 8, 2013

I imagine it has more to do with gaming property values than it does with anything else, but, according to our friends at the Ann Arbor News, there’s a group of Ypsilanti Township residents actively pushing to rename their community. It would seem they want jettison the “Ypsilanti” in favor of something that, in their […]

Posted in Rants, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged consolidation of services, Mary Gooden, mergers, Township annexation | 103 Comments

Man tears out penis by its roots at Ypsi Middle School

By Mark | June 25, 2013

As people are demanding that I share this, I suppose I have no choice… Late last night, a Columbus man, after consuming an enormous quantity of hallucinogenic mushrooms at the home of a friend in Ypsi Township, apparently felt the need to walk to Ypsi Middle School and tear his penis from his body by […]