Ypsilanti City Council agrees to pursue City income tax and Water Street millage
It may not have been news to most folks, but, when I read on AnnArbor.com yesterday that our City Council was in agreement over the necessity of a City income tax, I was surprised. I knew that many of...
View ArticleHow are things in Ypsi likely to change, if the city income tax doesn’t pass?
Our last few posts about the proposed city income tax have not only initiated a lot of good, substantive conversations, but they’ve also led to quite a few more questions. Case in point… a couple of...
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Would you pay $5 to berate a public school teacher at Saturday’s “Patriots in...
According to reports emanating from the swirling gyre of paranoia and retardation that is the Willow Run Tea Party Caucus, it looks as though everyone’s favorite demagoguing mama grizzly, Sarah Palin,...
View ArticleYpsilantians weigh in on potential merger of police and fire departments
Yesterday, I put up an admittedly not so insightful post about the possibility that Ypsilanti’s police and fire departments could be merged in hopes of further containing costs. While the post didn’t...
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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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What’s up with the Ypsilanti street light fee?
I don’t generally take requests, but, seeing as how we haven’t talked for some time about how the tax burden in Michigan is increasingly shifting onto the backs of the poor and middle class, I thought...
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