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Annarbourites ask, “Why can’t Ypsi just take all of our poor?” Consultant...
“So, why isn’t Ypsilanti a good long-term solution for Ann Arbor’s affordable housing issues?” That’s how the story in today’s Ann Arbor News about the work of a consulting firm brought in by the...
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How do we deal with the homeless in Ann Arbor? Easy, hire greeters on Segways...
A few days ago, in a post about the increasing number of economic refugees making their way from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti, I noted a new program being considered by the Ann Arbor Downtown Development...
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The fight intensifies over Ann Arbor’s proposed “ambassador” program
“Does Ann Arbor’s downtown belong to the people of Ann Arbor, or to the City’s most influential and vocal business owners?” It’s a question that’s been asked quite a bit this past week, in the wake of...
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When “shooing away” doesn’t work… Or why we were right to stop the Ann Arbor...
Remember how, a few months ago, a bunch of us got up in arms over plans hatched by the Ann Arbor DDA to hire a small army of Segway-riding “ambassadors” to cheerfully open doors for well-healed...
View ArticleArchival footage from 1970 suggests that Ann Arbor was once interesting
As we discussed not too long ago in a thread about Ann Arbor’s proposed “Ambassador” program, there was a time in Ann Arbor’s past when it wasn’t wealthy business owners pushing for their own private...
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You don’t have to go all the way to Tulsa to dress up like a cop and shoot...
Two weeks ago, on April 2, a 73-year-old insurance company executive by the name of Robert Bates shot and killed an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This likely wouldn’t have made the national...
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The RTA’s regional transit master plan, Nick Tobier on the creation of...
I know I’ve mentioned this episode of the Saturday Six Pack before, but, I thought that I’d better post a more comprehensive tonight, seeing as how it deals with the regional transit master plan that...
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