1. Rick Snyder's Rise to the Top Ann Arbor venture capitalist Rick Snyder, the former president of Gateway Computers, catapulted from political obscurity to Lansing’s doorstep by winning Michigan’s gubernatorial election in November. Snyder spent nearly $11 million on his campaign, including nearly $6 million from his own pocket. Snyder, ...
Newcombe Clark made his candidacy official today in the Ann Arbor City Council's 5th Ward race, turning in 159 petition signatures to have his name placed on the November ballot. Clark, who is running as an independent, will face off against two other candidates in November: Republican John Floyd and ...
There is a constant, underlying tension in this town between the interests of old Ann Arbor and emerging Ann Arbor. Every now and then, it becomes more like a head-on collision. One of those collisions occurred last week, when the Ann Arbor City Council failed to muster the eight votes ...
Newcombe Clark, one of the development partners behind the recently defeated Moravian project, has pulled nominating petitions to seek a seat on the Ann Arbor City Council. Clark's frustration with the city bubbled to the surface this week as the City Council responded to the cries of neighborhood activists and ...
I used to think that anything green would be embraced by Ann Arbor. I guess that isn't really true. I may have been a little naïve or idealistic about this, but it is an aspect of Ann Arbor that I was always proud of. This week we saw a near ...
Political theater comes in many forms in the area. Ann Arbor political theater is live, on the first and third Mondays of each month, at Ann Arbor City Council; Ypsilanti political theater is best represented by the local affairs puppet show Dreamland Tonight at the Dreamland Theater. Here are links ...
The proposed Moravian apartment project failed to win the Ann Arbor City Council's approval on Monday, leaving the developer contemplating his next move. Jeff Helminski, managing partner of The Moravian Co., said suing the city is a possibility after the project five years in the making was shot down.
A development five years in the making comes before the Ann Arbor City Council for final approval on Monday. But despite recommendations from city staff and the Planning Commission, it doesn't appear to have the support it needs from council members.
The developer of the proposed Moravian apartment project appeared before the Ann Arbor City Council Monday night and said it's been a long two years trying to get his project approved.Council members gave the project a ceremonial passing at first reading Monday but acknowledged they look forward to hearing more ...
More than a dozen Ann Arbor residents stepped up to the podium Tuesday night to voice their opposition to the controversial Moravian apartment project encroaching upon their neighborhood just outside the city's downtown. But ultimately, after a long debate - one that has spanned two years and included numerous plan ...
A profusion of yard signs sprouted in lawns along South Fourth and South Fifth avenues in Ann Arbor in the last week, reading: "No Moravian PUD." The voices of opposition behind those signs were heard at a public hearing tonight. "If this is such a nifty project, every reason why ...
Ann Arbor’s downtown housing boom is just a memory now - thanks in part to the many projects proposed but never built in the last decade. But one proposal is still making its way to the Planning Commission, and its developer says even today’s economic climate would support it. “The ...
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