YPSILANTI, MI - An Ypsilanti council member will run for the mayor's seat with a focus on issues like public safety, housing affordability and the future of the undeveloped Water Street property. Beth ...

Political organizer and Democrat Beth Bashert is the first to announce she will run for an Ypsilanti City Council seat that will open later this year. The longtime Ypsilanti resident has been active ...

On June 16, during a public Zoom meeting, the Ypsilanti City Council was discussing whether to reappoint Ka'Ron Gaines to the Human Relations Commission. When the discussion reached Ypsilanti Mayor ...

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — The mayor of a Michigan college town is apologizing after saying she would support the appointment of a human relations commissioner only because she would be “crucified" if ...

My narrative for finding a soulmate after moving to D.C. felt dead on arrival. Then I was reminded of the power of the virtual world. It was the first week of 2020 that I left Atlanta and transplanted ...

Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert, left, is replaced by Mayor Pro Tem Lois Richardson. Credit: City of Ypsilanti Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert resigned Tuesday after igniting a controversy by saying she ...

This was one of the questions I asked my teachers during my early teenage years. As an adolescent in a yeshiva high school, there was no topic more fascinating than bashert – the Jewish concept of ...

Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert won out with 63 percent of the vote in her city last November. She ran on a platform that advocated for changing the city's budget, bringing back services and increasing ...

Bestselling author Larry G. Goldsmith. Photo Courtesy of Larry G. Goldsmith. Bestselling author Larry G. Goldsmith. Photo Courtesy of Larry G. Goldsmith. In the late sixties, the world experiences a ...

Ypsilanti Mayor Beth Bashert is stepping down amid controversy over racists comments she made at a recent city council meeting. Bashert announced her resignation on Facebook Tuesday, effective at 9 ...