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City Managers Push Service Cuts While Spending Over $1.1 Million On Cell...
A2P Notes: This is filed under “Scoops & Scores” because you read it first here. In response to multiple FOIAs, information released by city officials shows that perks including monthly car...
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Savaged: Snyder Treasury Appointee Who Implements EM Takeovers Abused City...
By Chris Savage The Peter Principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. In February of this year, Roger Fraser resigned after nine years as Ann Arbor City...
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Local Media Used As A Collective Patsy to Mislead Public About Police...
Documents released by Ann Arbor city officials in response to a recent FOIA request revealed that the March 31, 2011 meeting to discuss “police dispatch” was set up via email and included Ann Arbor’s...
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Dirty Air + Contaminated Water = Glowing Enviro Endorsements in One Michigan...
by P.D. Lesko “John Hieftje has the strongest environmental record of any Mayor in the Midwest. He’s championed the city’s Greenbelt, the clean energy initiative, commuter rail, bicycling and our...
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Ward 1 Council Candidate Making False Claims About His College Record
by P.D. Lesko A2P Notes: This is filed under Scoops & Scores because you read it here first! Fibbing about one’s academic credentials can have dire consequences. Scott Thompson, the former CEO of...
View Article19 Top-Level City Staffers Lose Car Allowances, Including Police Chief and CFO
Under former city administrator Roger Fraser, the amounts paid out in tax dollars for cell phone allowances increased almost 95 percent between 2009 and 2012. By 2012, 196 of the city’s 693 full-time...
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Police, Fire, Parks, Millage Funds & Pools Soaked By City’s IT Fund For...
by P.D. Lesko Dan Rainey, the City of Ann Arbor’s IT Director, raked in a six-figure salary as one of the highest paid employees in the city. Now, he’s off to work for former Ann Arbor Director of...
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Downtown Area Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) Calls Resolution to Rein in DDA...
by P.D. Lesko The Downtown Area Citizens Advisory Council (CAC). Sounds official, right? It is supposed to be a group of no more than 15 mayoral appointees who, by Council resolution, live within the...
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Still Pulling Strings: “Baby” Leigh Chairs Ypsi DDA and “Writes the Script”...
by P.D. Lesko “This job has been extremely rewarding but also extremely stressful,” he says. “I have no future political plans. I am looking forward to time off. I am looking forward to practicing...
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