Thursday, July 11, 2019

INDEX

Vol. CXXVIII, No. 117
 © 2019 The Michigan Daily 

NEWS ....................................
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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EMMA STEIN
Daily Staff Reporter

BARBARA COLLINS & ALEX 
HARRING

Summer Managing News Editors

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Ann Arbor Jaycees host annual 
Fourth of July Parade downtown

MAX KUANG/DAILY
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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