Thursday, July 11, 2019
INDEX
Vol. CXXVIII, No. 117
© 2019 The Michigan Daily
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OPINION ...............................
ARTS......................................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................
MICHIGAN IN COLOR
‘ggone’
MiC contributor Ashley
Kim creates a piece of
visual art using only pencils
and paper
>> SEE PAGE 9
NEWS
‘Dearborn Girls’
University student creates
podcast focused on home-
town stereotypes
>> SEE PAGE 3
OPINION
2020
Samantha Della Fera
compares 2020 Democratic
presidental candidates to
‘The Bachelorette’
>> SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
‘Midsommar’
The ‘Hereditary’
director’s latest film is
scaring watchers out of
the theater
>> SEE PAGE 7
SPORTS
Basketball
Franz Wagner signs his
Tender of Financial Aid to
attend the University of
Michigan in the fall
>> SEE PAGE 12
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Young adult group
presents 29th
parade
Ann
Arbor
residents
celebrated Independence Day
with the 29th annual Fourth of
July parade Thursday morning.
The parade, run by the Ann
Arbor Jaycees, the young adult
offshoot of the Chamber of
Commerce, began at 10 a.m.
downtown.
Jaycees co-director Carolyn
Walsh
said
in
addition
to
building
community
and
offering
and
outlet
for
celebrating the holiday, the
festivities offer opportunities
to learn more about community
groups and nonprofits. Walsh
noted there are more than 60
community sponsors this year.
“It’s a really important event
that
binds
the
community
together,”
Walsh
said.
“On
the Fourth of July, we have
a lot to celebrate, and it gets
the community engaged with
different
organizations
and
nonprofits.”
The Jaycees also host the
summer carnival at Pioneer
High
School
in
late
June
each year. Walsh said their
annual events have variation
from year to year because the
organization’s membership is
always growing.
Walsh also said she hoped
attendees learned more about
the parade’s grand marshal,
the Buddy-to Buddy-program.
City releases
renewable car
transition plan
Ann Arbor announces
plan to make all
city vehicles
electric by 2025
The city of Ann Arbor aims to
reduce its fleet-related fuel emissions
in all city departments by 25 percent by
2025. The goal is part of a partnership
with the Climate Mayors Electric
Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative — a
group consisting of 127 cities, founded
by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
in 2014 with the intent of accelerating
climate
progress
through
local
governments.
Missy
Stults,
Ann
Arbor
sustainability
and
innovations
manager, said Ann Arbor joined
the collaborative with the goal of
fully powering all city vehicles with
renewable
energy.
The
city
has
implemented a Green Fleets program
since 2004, but created a detailed
and revised Green Fleets Policy with
specific plans in 2018.
“For the city of Ann Arbor, we’ve
got two goals that really made sense
for joining the collaborative,” Stults
said. “The first one is that we’ve got a
Green Fleets Policy, which we’ve had
since 2004, and in 2018, we upped
the goal for our fleet that we want to
reduce the emissions of our municipal
fleets operation 25 percent by 2025.
And then the other big goal is that
our objective is to be powered, all
municipal operations powered with
100 percent clean and renewable
energy by the year, at least, by the year
2035.”
Stults discussed how a Green Fleets
team is responsible for slowly phasing
out the current vehicles with electric
ones to maintain economic stability
in Ann Arbor. She also noted the team
monitors the market and the scientific
progress of creating more elaborate
electric vehicles, such as garbage
trucks.
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Ann Arbor residents gather for the annual Fourth of the July parade in Downtown Ann Arbor Thursday.
Carlson tenants allege negligence
Carlson Properties tenants express frustration with ownership
In a light brown duplex
on
South
State
Street,
Kinesiology
junior
Emma
Keer and her two roommates
lived in their newly-signed
two bedroom, two bathroom
home
during
the
2018-
2019 academic year. A few
weeks
after
moving
in,
Keer’s dishwasher and dryer
abruptly stopped working.
She tried to call landlord
Garret Carlson, hoping to
resolve the situation quickly,
but said she kept getting sent to
voicemail. Without any word
that he had received her call,
Carlson allegedly entered the
property and began working
on
the
appliances.
Quite
frequently,
either
Carlson
or his maintenance worker
would come into the property
without any warning, Keer
claims.
“He would walk in, do
whatever,
and
obviously
that wouldn’t sit well with
us,” Keer said. “Three young
girls, living alone, with a
strange man coming into the
apartment. We told him to
email or give us a call when
someone is coming over, but
he said it was ‘too much work’
and that ‘he can’t call them,
call you and then call them
back because it was too hard
to coordinate with them.’”
SAMANTHA SMALL
Summer News Editor
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