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06/11/2025

EMU is Falling Off An Enrollment Cliff: Officials Say They’ve Been “Planning for the Transformation”
https://a2independent.com/2025/11/06/emu-is-falling-off-an-enrollment-cliff-officials-say-theyve-been-planning-for-the-transformation/

28/10/2025

Records Reveal Sheriff Has Not Submitted Required Travel Reports–Failing to Document Hundreds of Travel-Related Credit Card Charges

by P.D. LeskoSheriff Alyshia Dyer's frequent travel has been criticized by present, as well as former employees who worked under former Sheriff Jerry Clayton. The County Administrator, County Prosecutor, County Treasurer and County Water Resources Co

22/10/2025

Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Tosses $500M Suit Alleging Women Inmates “Injured” When Filmed During Strip Searches: “Psychological Distress Not Physical Injury”

Legal firm that filed the suit plans to appeal, argues psychological distress is physical injury.

https://a2independent.com/2025/10/22/county-circuit-court-judge-tosses-500m-suit-alleging-women-inmates-filmed-during-strip-searches-psychological-distress-not-physical-injury/

15/10/2025

County employees spent $21K each to travel to Qatar, Oman and the UAE on the taxpayers' dime. County Commissioners were told the trip to the Middle East was made to "foster trade" between Qatar, Oman and the UAE and Washtenaw County and to improve "economic development." Counties can't negotiate trade agreements, only the federal government can do so. How did taxpayers' benefit?

https://a2independent.com/2025/10/15/county-travel-report-reveals-staffers-21k-trips-to-qatar-oman-and-the-uae-to-foster-international-trade/

10/09/2025

Asst. County Prosecutor Accused of Submitting False Financial Disclosures to Circuit Court, and Perjury

by P.D. LeskoAsst. County Prosecutor Marieh Tanha focuses on the County Prosecutor's domestic violence cases. Her ex-husband David Mathieu is a former police officer, and a disabled veteran with a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice. Their 2022 divor

28/08/2025

A2Politico: Our County Courts Have the “Slows” and the Human Costs Are Staggering

by P.D. LeskoData collected by Michigan's State Court Administrative Office shows that the judges who serve the people of our county have seen a slight uptick in the total number of cases filed between 2021 (47,026) and 2024 (52,164). However, since

04/06/2025

County Prosecutor Charges Former Ypsilanti City Manager Frances McMullen With Financial Crimes

by P.D. LeskoOn June 4, 2025, the City of Ypsilanti sent out a press release in which residents were told "the Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney has criminally charged for City Manager Frances McMullen following an investigation by the Michigan S

21/05/2025

Washtenaw County State Legislators’ Pork Spending Revealed: Huge Handouts for Small Non-Profits

The proposed $1,295,000 earmark for one non-profit would be more than five times the non-profit’s annual revenue declared on its most recent income tax return. Another request for pork spending is $250,000 for a non-profit’s whose most recent 990 federal income tax return shows gross income of $85,220 and a net loss of $18,531. The Ann Arbor DDA has asked for $5M in pork spending for a project called "Bollards and Ballistics."

21/05/2025

Scio Township Has Spent $103K in Legal Fees For Sup. Jillian Kerry, Now Trustees Tighten Purse Strings

Should Scio taxpayers continue to pay the Supervisor's legal fees?

by P.D. LeskoBetween Dec. 2023 and October 2024 in the matter of State of Michigan v Kerry, Scio Township paid $103,677.25 for reimbursement of Supervisor Jillian Kerry's cost of two attorneys’ services she incurred. Kerry's case stems from a Complai

05/05/2025

Tappan Middle School Students Send Parents Text Messages: “There’s A Man With an Automatic Rifle”

On March 13, 2025 three AAPD officers were dispatched to Tappan Middle School: “reference a report of a subject with an assault rifle.” AAPS administrators, including Dir. of Student & School Safety Liz Margolis, and the Principal of Tappan Middle School, Dr. Tyese Parnell, failed to immediately communicate with parents when it was thought someone with an assault rifle had been seen at the school.

30/04/2025

Scio Twp. Supervisor Jillian Kerry faces two felony charges for allegedly "hacking" into an email account while using the township's only shared laptop computer.

by P.D. LeskoThanks to a series of events characterized as political dirty tricks on the part of former Scio Twp. Supervisor Will Hathaway, or current Scio Twp. Supervisor Jillian Kerry, Superior Twp. Supervisor Kerry stands charged with Computers –

09/04/2025

Sheriff Dyer Says It Is Her “Right” To Appoint Former Romantic Partner to HR Position; Michigan Law and AG Say It’s Not

County Sheriff Alyshia Dyer illegally used discretionary appointments rather than a public, open hiring process to fill positions in her dept. Dyer appointed a Dir. of Innovation, a Dir. of Operations and a Dir. of HR and Training. The Michigan AG confirmed that Dyer must comply with Michigan’s MCL 51 SHERIFFS Revised Statutes of 1846 Chapter 14. The Statute sets forth exactly whom Sheriffs may appoint: deputy sheriffs and undersheriffs. Dyer’s appointment of Jeremiah Richardson, Cynthia Harrison and Crystal Campbell were improper under MCL 51.70 and MCL 51.71. MCL 51 Sheriffs Chapter 14 is designed to stop county sheriff’s from abusing the appointment process, as Dyer has done.