Congratulations to our local farmers for making Michigan one of the top 10 states for winter farm markets (Kim Bayer, “In praise of winter vegetables and winter farmers markets,” Feb. 7). The Ann Arbor Farmers' Market is a great place to find fresh food and lively people, and I am ...
By exploiting tax loopholes and using offshore tax havens, companies such as GE and Bank of America avoid paying as much as $100 billion a year on taxes. The corporations’ tax schemes are legal and that’s what makes it unjust. They’re playing by a different set of rules than us ...
I am writing to question the trash collection policies of the City of Ann Arbor. The federal, state and local holiday honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was last Monday (Jan. 16). However, the City of Ann Arbor did not suspend trash collection on that day -- ...
The Obama administration has just released its “Draft Framework” for a National Alzheimer’s Plan and as a nation we are at a critical juncture for the Department of Health & Human Services to create an aggressive and coordinated national strategy to deal with and change the trajectory of this disease.
The Jan. 19 election of Scott Brown as the next U.S. Senator from Massachusetts actually provides President Obama with a unique opportunity. This was neither a "victory for Republicans" nor a "defeat for Democrats" as so many pundits claim. Instead, it was a clear signal that there is a vast ...
One place for the Gitmo prisoners is the ranch in Crawford, Texas, where General G. Bush spent his eight years in office "clearing brush." Those men could help Bush and become "Americanized" too. - Maxwell O. Reade, Ann Arbor
Asian carp. Almost here. The DNR needs to close all gateways and locks. Shippers have options; sorry they’ll be inconvenienced. Not as much as Michigan and anyone relying on tourism, swimming and fishing in our Lakes.
Recently a letter was published criticizing the Global Warming “deniers” for their lack of understanding that this subject is now covered by a “consensus” among scientists that Global Warming is an established fact.
Washtenaw County recently designated the West Lake Preserve near Chelsea as part of the Washtenaw County’s Natural Area Preservation properties. The property, as described on the county Web site, offers a nice diversity of habitats, including a small pond, buttonbush swamp, oak hickory forest and open fields. Isn’t it ironic ...
Just who is Albert Berriz, treasurer of “Citizens for a responsible Washtenaw -anti millage group?” What are his educational leadership qualifications? It sounds to me that he's a “right-winger.” He reminds me of the Business Round Table members who have, over the years, done all they could to bash public ...
The voters of Washtenaw County shot a cannon ball across the bow of the public school system on Nov. 3. Is this the archangels trumpet horn that school officials and our politicians will hear?
It is interesting to note that in Albert Berriz's many anti-school millage campaign pronouncements and in his Nov. 8 exultation of his triumph, he failed to mention that he and his company (McKinley) are huge property owners in Washtenaw County. Thus any school millage would add to the property taxes ...
Well I suppose there will be plenty of sad faces among school officials and students alike now that the millage was defeated. It's too bad for the students, I'll agree. However, as far as the faculty and school administrators are concerned, I believe they brought this problem on themselves. Mismanagement ...
On September 12, following the Michigan-Notre Dame game my family and I had a life changing experience. On the way home from the game I suffered Sudden Cardiac Arrest. As a 57 year old with a healthy lifestyle and no prior history of heart problems, this came as a shock ...
I wonder whether William Safire is aware of the gap he left at his untimely death some weeks ago. Or the unexpected effect his sudden absence has had on at least one of his readers - more than one, I suspect. Safire loved words, not simply as a means of ...
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