The battle for Washtenaw County--Can you FEEL the excitement?

WOW, two days out from the battle for football supremacy and bragging rights in Washtenaw County. There were far more guys "needing tickets" in front of the Michigan Union yesterday than normal, this is THE game this week, well, in Washtenaw County.

Michigan has suspended top receiver Mario Manningham for breaking team rules which will really give EMU a decided advantage in stopping Mario Manningham.

EMU has some top flight speed at skill positions, Michigan has BIG guys with speed at skill positions.

YCD can hardly contain itself, in a game matching up two premiere coaches (Nobody can turn a 30-10 wipeout into a 27-24 loss better than Lloyd Carr while nobody can turn a 24-24 game into a 30-10 loss faster than Jeff Genyk's play calling) it doesn't get any bigger or better than this game.

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The Wings win and all is right with the world


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Calendar says October, time for NIGHT TERRORS at Wiards

Johnny is a big fan of Wiards and also the NIGHT TERRORS spooky scarefest going on out there. Get this, according to the website, Wiards has 115 LIVE monsters. That's 20% more live monsters than anywhere else in Washtenaw County. Listen, this year they have ALIEN CAGED CLOWNS. Nothing scares like clowns, right Mr. Gacy?


Visit the website for particulars and they also have an online coupon you can print and use before you go.

'Stop City Income Tax' files suit against city of Ypsilanti

A group calling itself 'Stop City Income Tax' has filed suit to block the proposed Ypsilanti City income tax. The tax, if approved later this year would impose a 1% sales tax on Ypsilanti residents and 1/2% on non residents who work in Ypsilanti.

Claiming the ballot language itself is too vague and therefore not legal as well as claiming it violates Michigan's Home Rule Act, Brian Robb, Democratic council member in the third ward said:

"The city should not be advocating one side of the issue or the other and the city cannot have ballot language that violates state law".

City attorney John Barr, while not addressing the Michigan's Home Rule Act portion of the complaint did say:

"City council believed they weren't hoodwinking the voters".

Uh, yeah, but John, they didn't THINK They were hoodwinking the voters or they KNOW they weren't hoodwinking the voters. Which is it?

The YCD has come out very early on as being opposed to the proposal, the YCD also thinks after Jenny from the Block and the Republicans in Lansing just helped themselves to more of our money, this proposal has a real chance of being pounded should it go before voters.

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Rain on the morrow, wear your galoshes


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Pittsfield Township: Wile E. Coyote sighting

It's 4am, you're wearing a bandana and armed with a broom, why not use said broomstick to let yourself into the McDonalds we've ALL eaten at on Washtenaw while the crew looks on. You ask for money, and might I add what BETTER time to demand money than before they open for busines to collect, um, money. Told they have none and no access to the safe at, again, 4am, you run out. We're guessing the way you came in, broomlord, and flee into the morning air.

If you've seen Mr. Coyote please call the Pittsfield Police at 734-944-4911.

Please turn him in before he learns to use a shopping cart as a battering ram.

More slime oozing out of EMU Campus police

Can it get ANY worse over there? We are all too well aware of the reasons Cindy Hall was let go in the wake of the Laura Dickinson debacle but now come the lawsuits exposing (supposedly) just how the EMU campus police works.

Former EMU Sergeant Stacy Cain is suing EMU for gender discrimination. Cain who has been fired twice before only to be reinstated made the following claims:

*She was treated differently from male officers
*She was disciplined more harshly than her actions merited
*She was fired for less serious infractions than men who were not terminated
*She was singled out for remedial training
*She was assigned to do personal errands for former public safety director Cindy Hall


YCD at this point would raze that place and start over. It's SUCH a mess. YCD is sure there are dutiful professional campus police on staff at EMU, they're just not the ones you read about.

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Have your say on a rainy October night


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A look behind the scenes at YCD

A recent budget and editorial meeting. You can trust YCD.

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Anyone affected by the state shutdown?


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