City of Ann Arbor vows to crack down on graffitti

They hope to so by cracking down on property owners who don't clean it off within two weeks! That is their ass-backward solution. I shit you not. That is how they treat us property owners around the People's Republic of Ann Arbor. How about if the city also makes a stronger effort to arrest these spray-paint happy little creeps and have the community service portion of their sentences be to remove it maybe?

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David's Books closes (Ann Arbor Observer)

'Take Back Our Streets' march planned for this week in downtown Ann Arbor
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Glazier Way residents in Ann Arbor upset over VA shuttle buses going through neighborhood (annarbor.com/)
TFB. If that's the only thing you have to complain about then life's pretty good.

 Kalamazoo river oil spill one-year anniversary is today (Kalamazoo Gazette/MLive)
Slide show of the clean up process. I hope the oil pipeline company is paying for all this. And through the nose too.


Ex-Rep. Mark Schauer (MI-7) says he won't run again in 2012 (Detroit News)

"...[In] an email sent Wednesday to supporters, the 49-year-old former state lawmaker said he was enjoying spending more time with his family and helping oversee an initiative for the joint labor-environmentalist group the BlueGreen Alliance. He also cited the new Republican-backed congressional redistricting map, which moved his hometown of Battle Creek from his former district."

Translation: I have a nice cushy job here in D.C., and the district has been gerrymandered and I don't think I can win now. 

Same old story...

Ann Arbor residents are now very concerned about street crime. They bitch about having too few cops due to layoffs and that AA is also becoming a police state in the same breath. Go figure? They despise the ideas of surveillance cams in high crime areas but want to build a wall around the city to keep "out-of -towners" out? Welcome to the People's Republic of Ann Arbor! A high-crime, low common-sense zone surrounded by reality in southeast Michigan.