November 7th, 20250The old Arabic saying goes “The letter can be read from its title.” The committee name of “Dearborn Wants Wards” is as misleading and confusing as the campaign it waged in support of Proposal 1 to divide Dearborn into seven Council wards.
The sound defeat of Proposal 1 by 71 percent of Dearborn voters proved one thing: Dearborn...
August 23rd, 20250DEARBORN – The Dearborn City Clerk’s office has confirmed that the Dearborn Wants Wards campaign has submitted enough valid signatures to place a referendum on the November ballot, calling for a change in how City Council members are elected.
According to a statement from the campaign, 4,082 of the 8,088 signatures submitted were...
July 27th, 20250DEARBORN – Last week, due to an insufficient number of valid signatures, Dearborn City Clerk George Darany rejected a petition initiative aimed at restructuring how the City Council is elected. The group behind the petition, however, maintains that the submitted signatures should have qualified, arguing that commonly used Arab and...
June 19th, 20250DEARBORN — A group of activists in Dearborn is pushing to change how City Council members are elected, submitting more than 6,300 petition signatures last week to the city clerk. The initiative aims to place a charter amendment on the November ballot that would shift the current at-large voting system to a ward-based election structure...
