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(12/01/13 11:26pm)
Mayor Paul Schreiber of Ypsilanti has said the city needs to make the transition from a locale that relied on manufacturers to a college town. Many times over I have raised the question of whether or not the city has the money to make the transition. The debt from a real estate purchase that went badly has left the city unable to pay for capital improvements and public services like parks and recreation have been cut. But another important question is what it means to be a college town.
(11/24/13 11:33pm)
Gov. Rick Snyder, Republican of the Great Lakes State, recently made law a bill that offers property tax relief to veterans. More specifically the law now allows former members of the armed services who are fully disabled to qualify for an exemption from state and local property taxes.
(11/21/13 12:24am)
“More than 2 million manufacturing jobs disappeared during the 2007-09 recession,” said a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. A fraction of those jobs disappeared from the city of Ypsilanti when the ACH (Visteon) auto-plant owned by Ford Motor Company closed in 2008.
(11/17/13 11:38pm)
The World Bank has devised a way to assess the urban competitiveness of a city, a rubric that uses four elements: economic structure, territorial endowment, human resources and institutional milieu.
(11/10/13 10:18pm)
After the financial crisis, if it was not clear that we live in a worldwide economy, it is clear now. Stories about auto plant closures have been replaced by hysteria over Greece’s debt burden and our own fiscal crises. Local unemployment rates have been put in the context of data from the International Monetary Fund. The whole affair can make local politics seem trivial. And even mayors with considerable celebrity like Michael Bloomberg of New York, Julian Castro of San Antonio and Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans can seem powerless.
(11/06/13 11:14pm)
To stay with the theme of my previous column, published earlier this week, I would like to share a few TED “talks” for citizens of urban communities.
(11/03/13 11:17pm)
“Ideas worth spreading,” is the catchphrase of the TED (Technology, Engineering, Design) conference series.
(10/30/13 11:09pm)
The other day I talked over the city of Ypsilanti’s financial troubles with a classmate who said the city should simply declare bankruptcy like the city of Detroit.
(10/27/13 8:51pm)
After my interview with Mayor Paul Schreiber of Ypsilanti, I’ve had to temper my enthusiasm over the city’s Master Plan.
(10/20/13 11:10pm)
The news is a broke city plans to help pay for a new sports arena.
(10/20/13 9:49pm)
Last week I was able to sit down with Paul Schreiber, mayor of Ypsilanti, for an interview. We discussed the city’s Master Plan, the walkability of the city and how proposed infrastructure improvements would be financed. Here is that interview:
(10/13/13 10:51pm)
Gov. Rick Perry, Republican of the Lone Star State, has started to run ads outside of Texas to lure away businesses from their home states.
(10/09/13 11:00pm)
Even before this fiscal crisis, the Republican Party’s fiscal conservatism had lost all coherence.
(10/06/13 10:38pm)
My previous column on Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, was adulatory.
(09/29/13 10:15pm)
“It’s a nerdy job, but somebody has to do it,” Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said in the first ad of his obvious, yet unannounced reelection bid.
(09/22/13 10:28pm)
The National Bureau of Economic Research announced a nascent recession in the United States in 2007, and then cited its end in 2009. There has since, however, been an economic malaise, with the national unemployment rate at 7.3 percent and state unemployment rate at 8.8 percent.
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