Ann Arbor councilman reports receiving ‘threatening, homophobic mail’
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Ann Arbor City Council Member Travis Radina, D-3rd Ward, talks about facing anti-gay harassment and speaks out against Council Member Jeff Hayner s use of a homophobic slur to attack journalists on social media.CTN
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ANN ARBOR, MI After speaking out about an Ann Arbor City Council colleague’s use of a homophobic slur on Facebook, Travis Radina said he received anti-gay hate mail.
“This weekend, the fallout against our LGBTQ community continued,” Radina, who is openly gay, told his colleagues at the council meeting Monday night, April 19.
Ann Arbor councilman stripped of committee assignments for homophobic slur
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Ann Arbor City Council Member Jeff Hayner, D-1st Ward, issues a public apology April 19, 2021, for using a quote on social media attacking journalists with a homophobic slur.CTN
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ANN ARBOR, MI Ann Arbor City Council Member Jeff Hayner has been removed from several city boards, commissions and committees for using a quote on social media attacking journalists with a homophobic slur.
“Such derogatory language is harmful to the LGBTQ community,” council stated in a resolution Tuesday morning, April 20, condemning Hayner’s remarks and recommending he attend anti-discrimination, diversity and sensitivity training.
‘Toxic political tornado’ debate over Ann Arbor council rules continues
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
City Attorney Stephen Postema discusses matters related to new council rules at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting March 1, 2021. The ACLU argues the rules violate free speech rights.CTN
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ANN ARBOR, MI Ann Arbor City Council members have said they want to end personal attacks between each other.
But new council rules aimed at doing so have been the subject of debate for several weeks now.
As the controversy continued this week, one official summed it up as a “toxic political tornado.”
“I got involved in this with good intentions and I thought it was going to simplify some things, but I feel like it’s snowballed into some kind of toxic political tornado,” Council Member Kathy Griswold, D-2nd Ward, said of rules she and a majority of council OK’d to outline potential consequences for personal attacks and a process for redress of gri
Ann Arbor administrator ‘really frustrated’ with slow vaccine rollout for city workers
Updated Mar 10, 2021;
Posted Mar 10, 2021
Physician Ann Oldendorf, left, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to teacher Amanda Harper during the vaccination clinic at Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center in Ypsilanti on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Harper teaches at Greenhills School, and her son attends school at Ann Arbor Public Schools. (Alie Skowronski/mlive.com)Alie Skowronski | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI Hundreds of city government workers in Ann Arbor still haven’t been vaccinated and City Administrator Tom Crawford isn’t happy about the slow rollout.
“I’m really frustrated with the vaccination process,” Crawford told Mayor Christopher Taylor and City Council members during a committee meeting Tuesday, March 9.
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