Unlike the greedy capitalist developers building luxury 600sq.ft. apartments today, my modest 3500sq.ft. home in Ives Woods rose from the soil fully formed without anybody making a penny. #a2council

Santa Ono to join the Weiser Center for Eroding Democracies #goblue

Opinion | We don't need no pubilc libary. #a2council

Experts agree that revising the Comprehensive Land Use Plan is long overdue and is a necessary step to solve Ann Arbor's housing crisis and meet our A2Zero goals. But these two AI-generated podcasters we overheard playing from a lap top speaker in this LowerTown diner aren't so sure. #a2council

Opinion | ICE has arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Here’s why that’s bad news for Mayor Taylor. #a2council

While The Verve opening up 700+ beds of student housing is music to the ears of many, this local Gen X landlord says it's a bittersweet symphony. #a2council

Should Ann Arbor rezone the Library Lot to facilitate the construction of new housing on top of a new library? These sixteen public officials all say “yes,” but this local Holocaust skeptic isn’t so sure. #a2council

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2025/05/high-rise-zoning-for-downtown-ann-arbor-library-site-gets-city-councils-initial-ok.html

In this local neighborhood association meeting, few know what an FA18 Super Hornet is or what it does. But they do know this: until the City Planning Commission finds and recovers the missing warplane from the bottom of the ocean, democracy demands that no work on the Comp Plan proceed. #a2council

A house in Water Hill recently caught fire while a resident was repairing a gasoline-powered motorcycle. Here's why we should ban e-bikes due to their fire risk. #a2council

My aggrieved Gen X neighbor was watching CTN footage from nearly 20 years ago when she asked me, “Why did the mayor change his mind about high rises?” When I told her, “Because some people learn and grow as they age,” she started TikToking. #a2council

Opinion | My grandparents fought fascists in Europe before immigrating to the U.S. Here's why Washtenaw County should capitulate to the oligarch state by detaining residents wanted by ICE. #a2council

by Samson Range Linguini

Arts & Culture | Filmmaker Ken Burns, known for his documentaries chronicling American history and culture, has embraced the most American pastime of all: housing segregation. #a2council

By some measures, Ann Arbor is the 8th most economically segregated city in America. But at this Old Fourth Ward Association meeting, the topic on everyone’s mind is: Won’t someone speak for the trees? #a2council

Opinion | As a licensed Michigan attorney, I am trained in the law and sworn to uphold the Constitution. So when I was advised not to report attempted bribery, I knew exactly what to do: wait a few months and then use it to smear my political opponents on my blog. #a2council

Opinion | When I leaked the Guajardo HR complaint to Arienne Leggensalmon, I believed that I was currently clean on the opsec. I was not in fact clean on the opsec. #a2council

Opinion | The Comprehensive Land Use process has included over a year of public engagement sessions, surveys, meetings, and workshops. But inside this endangered Ann Arbor knickknackery, it feels like it was cooked up on the Houthi PC small group Signal chat. #a2council

Opinion | The Allies’ strategic bombing campaign destroyed Europe and Japan, and killed millions of innocent civilians. Ann Arbor’s attempt to revise its Land Use plan is not a war crime, but these four boomers inside Northside Diner aren’t so sure. #a2council

Opinion | I’m a lifelong Democrat. But if #a2council passes a land use plan that allows 6,000 sq.ft. quadplexes next to my 6,000 sq.ft. Burns Park mansion, I will be forced to vote for Donald Trump for a fourth time.

Recent #a2council elections suggest strong support for legalizing housing. But at this invitation only single-family neighborhood association meeting held at 4pm on a weekday, that support feels much lower.

Opinion | My neighborhood should be like me, rigid and unchanging as it decays into dust. #a2council