Dearborn Heights braces for possible government shut down

June 28th, 20240 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — As the budget deadline looms, the city of Dearborn Heights has failed to approve a budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30, 2025. During a nearly two and a half hour-long City Council meeting on June 25, Councilwoman Nancy Breyer was the only Council member to move for the...

Dearborn Public Schools recognized for budget presentation

March 19th, 20220 DEARBORN — For the fourth year in a row, the Dearborn Public School District has been recognized for excellence in how it presents its budget. The district was awarded a Meritorious Budget Award (MBA) by the Association of School Business Officials International for the current 2021-22 fiscal year budget. The Association of...

Public hearing for city budget scheduled for May 26

May 25th, 20210 DEARBORN - The public hearing on the proposed city budget for fiscal year 2022 is set for Wednesday May 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dearborn Administrative Center (DAC). The public hearing invites the public to comment on the proposed budget, which covers expenditures and revenues for the city from July 1, 2021 until June 30, 2022. The...

Henry Ford College to ask voters for millage renewal in November

July 29th, 20180 DEARBORN — The Henry Ford College (HFC) board of trustees began preliminary discussions on a ballot proposal at its board meeting on July 16. Dearborn residents will be asked to vote in the November election on a five-year millage renewal for the college. A millage is a taxation rate expressed in mills per dollar. A school millage...

Where to start? Fix the budget process

March 2nd, 20180 You could choose any number of marquee dilemmas to illustrate how broken Congressional politics has become. Guns, Russian interference, climate change — Americans want progress on all of them and get little from Capitol Hill. But to my mind, nothing illustrates the dire state of our politics better than how we act on the federal...

Trump budget seeks cuts to domestic programs, Medicare, favors military and wall

February 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump proposed a budget on Monday that calls for cuts in domestic spending and social programs such as Medicare and seeks a sharp increase in military spending and funding for a wall on the Mexican border. While running for president in 2016, Trump pledged to leave popular benefit programs such as...

Are Dearbornites paying too much in property taxes?

August 4th, 20170 DEARBORN — Twice a year, homeowners in the city face one of the most dreaded days of the year – tax day. Among other levied taxes, every homeowner pays a percentage of his or her property's value to help operate and maintain the city's services, like the Police Department, the schools and trash pickup. In addition, the city...

Dearborn’s decaying alleys: Don’t expect more than patching

June 2nd, 20171 DEARBORN — Amid significant plans to pull the city into the future, forgotten remnants are driving it back to a history paved by segregation. Explicit disparities between Dearborn's west side and the east side have long been the proverbial elephant in the room. Michiganders contend that infrastructure conditions vary greatly...