February 19th

if I don’t look at it, then it doesn’t exist

From Mlive:

The commissioners learned even Ann Arbor is no longer immune. Long believed to be insulated from the crisis by an affluent population and the University of Michigan, the city had 11 properties up for tax foreclosure, McClary said. She said from 1997 to 2007, the city had only a total of four properties foreclosed for failure to pay property taxes.

We thought we were invulnerable until it hit us on the head,” said county Commissioner Barbara Bergman, D-Ann Arbor.

This does not exactly inspire confidence in the leadership of Washtenaw County. Are you really that naive, Barbara?

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