Last night the Ann Arbor City Council sent a clear message to the business community: “If you, as a private business, ever consider competing for something connected with the City, make sure that no City entity is on the list competing with you.”
For about a year I have been a member of the Liquor Committee, [...]

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On July 31, 2007, as part of Cities for Peace, I joined locally elected officials from around the country to present our resolutions against the war in Iraq to the Whitehouse and to speak before the Progressive Caucus in Congress. No money from the City of Ann Arbor was used for this trip.
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We are cutting money from programs for kids, while inefficient systems are wasting our taxpayer dollars. As the State of Michigan faces a deepening economic crisis we have tough decisions to make about cutting budgets and whether to raise taxes to cover the shortfall. In the business community, I’ve been pushing the message that what [...]

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