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What’s on the ballot: Ann Arbor
Aug. 2 primary elections
The state of Michigan’s Aug.
2 primary elections will see Ann
Arbor voters decide general election
candidates for mayor and city
council, as well as vote on a millage
proposal to fund expansions for the
Ann Arbor Area Transportation
Authority (TheRide). Voters will
also choose candidates for governor,
U.S. representative, state senator,
state
representative,
county
commissioner and delegate to the
Democratic
Party’s
Washtenaw
County convention.
Ballots will contain one column
with candidates for the Democratic
Party and another for the Republican
Party. Voters must choose one of the
two columns to fill out. To see your
polling location and what your ballot
will look like on election day, check
the Michigan Voter Information
Center.
Because Ann Arbor leans heavily
Democratic, with the mayorship and
all 10 City Council seats currently
being held by Democrats, those
who win the Democratic primary
nominations are all but guaranteed
to win in the November general
election.
Ann
Arbor
Area
Transportation
Authority
(AAATA) Expansion Proposal
The millage proposal on the Aug.
2 ballot seeks to levy a property tax to
maintain and expand the Ann Arbor
Area Transportation Authority. If
approved, the millage rate would
increase from 0.7 to 2.38 mills ($2.38
for every $1000 in taxable property
value) over a five-year period from
2024 to 2028. The collected revenue
would fund a number of expansions
to TheRide, the bus system serving
the greater Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti
area.
The proposal details a number
of improvements it seeks to make
to the transit system, including
the
expansion
of
late-night,
weekend and holiday services, the
introduction of an express route
between downtown Ann Arbor and
downtown Ypsilanti and funding
for projects such as zero-emission
buses.
Mayor
Democratic voters in Ann Arbor
will decide between Anne Bannister
and Christopher Taylor for mayor.
There are no Republican candidates
on the ballot for mayor of Ann Arbor.
Taylor, having served since 2014,
is seeking his second reelection bid.
Taylor’s tenure has been defined by
his pushes for high-density housing
and more city services for residents.
In 2020, five progressive challengers
endorsed by Taylor swept the city
council elections, leaving the mayor
with a council majority.
When announcing his candidacy
for reelection, Taylor said he wants
to tackle the city’s housing crisis by
developing affordable housing and
continue introducing an unarmed
response team for the city.
Bannister served one term on
the City Council, from 2017 to 2020,
and was ousted after Lisa Disch
won the seat for Ward 1 over her.
She has expressed support for the
A2Zero campaign, which seeks a
transition to carbon neutrality in
Ann Arbor by 2030. During her
time as a councilmember, Bannister
voted against several new affordable
housing developments in the city.
She has, however, sponsored plans
to evaluate and develop proposals
for additional affordable housing
while on the council.
IRENA LI
Summer News Editor
Design by Jennie Vang
Incoming University of Michigan
medical students walked out of Sunday’s
white coat ceremony at the start of the
keynote address to protest the selection
of Dr. Kristin Collier as the speaker.
Collier, a Michigan Medicine physician,
has publicly expressed anti-abortion
views in interviews and on social media.
A video showing students leaving
their seats and exiting the Hill
Auditorium has gone viral on Twitter,
having received over 16 million views
since being posted Sunday evening. The
white coat ceremony is an annual event
in which new medical students are
welcomed to the University of Michigan
Medical School.
The walkout follows the circulation
of a petition to remove Collier as speaker
that received over 400 total signatures,
348 of which were from incoming or
current medical students.
“We demand that (the University)
stands in solidarity with us and selects
a speaker whose values align with
institutional policies, students, and
the broader medical community,” the
petition read.
UMich medical students
walk out of white coat
ceremony in protest of anti-
abortion keynote speaker
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SAMANTHA RICH
Summer News Editor
Trigger Warning: This article
contains mentions of suicide and
attempts of suicide, mentions of sexual
assault and mentions of police violence.
“It’s official: Santa is coming
to town,” “I’m okay with our new
president being a Sagittarius” and
“Santa’s meme game is fire” are only
a few of the memes circulating on
Instagram and Twitter following
the appointment of Dr. Santa Ono
as the University of Michigan’s
15th President at a special Board of
Regents meeting July 13.
Ono’s appointment as the 15th
President of the University comes
after a four-month search by the
Presidential Search Committee, led
by co-chairs Regents Sarah Hubbard
(R) and Denise Ilitch (D). In an
interview with President-elect Ono,
Hubbard and Ilitch emphasized the
impact the community listening
sessions had on the presidential
search. Hubbard also said Ono
was in one of the first pools of
candidates that the committee began
considering in March.
Zackariah Farah, U-M alum and
Research Assistant at Michigan
Medicine, said he is impressed by
how Ono interacts with the students
at the universities he has led, the
University of British Columbia and
the Univerisity of Cincinnati.
“I’ve heard that he is very
accessible and that he loves talking
to students, and in my four years at
U-M, I only saw Mark Schlissel in
person once, which is pretty crazy,”
Farah said.
Campus reacts to Santa
Ono’s appointment as 15th
UMich President
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ANNA FIFELSKI &
NIRALI PATEL
Summer News Editors