If anything has marked police and fire services in Ann Arbor in recent years, it’s been the combination of reduced staffing and rocky relations between the city administration and unions. Welcome to a new era. The transition out of recrimination and retrenchment continued last week when the city announced it ...
It was the night of May 16, 2011, when my very pregnant wife sent me into open political revolt against Ann Arbor’s mayor and City Council. My dissatisfaction had been rising and the $100 million of mismanaged and wasteful building projects (the “Rog Mahal,” the “Big Dig” and the “Hurinal”), ...
The Ann Arbor Fire Department will see its ranks decrease by five positions starting July 1 under budget cuts approved this week, but the impact of that remains to be seen. Fire Chief Dominick Lanza told the City Council on Monday the reduction is small enough that it will be ...
Proposals by Ann Arbor leaders to cut deep into police and fire services to balance the 2010-11 budget are drawing heavy criticisms this week from the firefighters union and a group of candidates running for City Council. Late Tuesday night, four candidates seeking to oust members of the current Ann ...
Ann Arbor City Administrator Roger Fraser is expected to lay out his recommended 2010-11 budget at a town hall forum tonight. But even after trimming millions of dollars, his plan doesn't entirely close the city's projected budget gap.
A Dexter woman was hospitalized Saturday after driving into a pond, according to the Ann Arbor Fire Department. Lt. Randy Menard said the woman, 39, was driving eastbound on I-94, east of Liberty Road, when her minivan ran off the freeway about 100 feet into a pond.
Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje put his money where his mouth is tonight by writing a check to the city for $1,273. The donation represents 3 percent of his $42,432 salary - a voluntary pay reduction Hieftje is asking each of the city's labor groups to make in contract negotiations.
When a house at 1208 Washtenaw Avenue near the Eastern Michigan University campus in Ypsilanti burned recently, a cell phone call to report the fire was routed to the Ann Arbor Fire Department. That department dispatched trucks to the same address on Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor. By the time ...
Ann Arbor officials and firefighters union representatives say they're at an impasse in negotiations - less than a week after it appeared the two sides had reached a tentative agreement to save the city a significant sum of money. According to sources close to the discussions, the union offered to ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
Get the Ann Arbor RSS Feed
AnnArbor.com