One of the cornerstones of my campaign for WCC Trustee is the need for high-wage, high demand jobs. You might ask how WCC does in…
Posts published in “High wage jobs”
If you want another example of the high-wage, high-demand jobs that Washtenaw County needs, consider this. Earlier this summer, Grand Rapids Community College received a…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Ann Arbor Greenbelt and its apparent impact on Washtenaw County. About a decade ago, the Office…
Anyone who lives in Michigan knows that the economy here is highly sensitive to change. Michigan often leads the nation into a recession and holds…
Washtenaw County is becoming increasingly divided with pockets of extreme wealth offset by pockets of extreme poverty. I attended today’s Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees…
What accounts for the poverty rates among adults with some college or an associate degree in eastern Washtenaw County, and in our cities? There’s no…
According to the most recent US Census data (2023), 9.4% of Washtenaw County residents whose educational attainment level is some college/associate degree live below the…
I’ve written about the loss of taxable value in the City of Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township. Combined, these two areas provide 10% of the tax…
For the last week or so, I have been writing about the housing situation in Washtenaw County, and how factors like the Ann Arbor Greenbelt…
The czb Report, which I wrote about yesterday, made some interesting points in 2014 about where the authors thought the Washtenaw County housing market was…