Monday night’s fight to protect what’s left of public education in Ypsilanti
It would appear that the financial situation at Ypsi Public Schools is even more dire than we’d been led to believe, and the State is demanding that immediate, drastic action be taken. The following...
View ArticleParents to meet and discuss the state of Ypsilanti’s public schools in the...
The Ypsi School Board, as I suspect you know by now, voted yesterday, at the urging of the State, to pass a Deficit Elimination Plan calling for the closure of yet another school, and the firing of...
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Carpools leaving in the morning for “Occupy the PGA” event in Benton Harbor
A little over a year ago, we discussed the fact that, under the rule of unelected Emergency Manager, Joseph Harris, public properties in Benton Harbor were being sold for pennies on the dollar to...
View ArticleEmergency Manager disbands public school system in Muskegon Heights, saying...
As you’ll recall, a few weeks ago, I mentioned here that the Philadelphia School District had been disbanded. Well, it looks as though Michigan may have just one-upped them, eliminating public...
View ArticleIs there an opportunity for the community to take control of the impending...
If you’re a regular reader of this site, you know that my friend Maria Cotera has, over the past few years, been sharing reports with us on the status of Ypsilanti’s public schools. From the closing of...
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What the WISD got wrong in the marketing of their Ypsilanti, Willow Run...
As of right now, I don’t feel as though I have enough information to make an informed decision concerning the proposed merging of the Ypsilanti and Willow Run school systems. When I heard, earlier this...
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Middle class Michiganders to pay considerably more in taxes despite the...
Reading an article in the Detroit Free Press this evening about how taxes are going up precipitously on working class Michiganders, I’m reminded of something that I wrote about a year ago for this...
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City Manager Ralph Lange indicates that Ypsilanti is moving toward a hybrid...
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...
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If Detroit was a person, Kevyn Orr would be selling its kidneys
This weekend, upon hearing Kevyn Orr’s suggestion that we explore the possibility of selling the art collection of the DIA in order to satisfy the creditors of Detroit, it occurred to me that our newly...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Emergency Manager takeover of...
I had the good fortune a week or so ago to attend the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit. Among the people that I met while there was attorney Alec Gibbs, who, in recent years, has been keeping busy...
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