“Ypsilanti boasts trendy, cultural downtown”

Ypsi city council member Bill Nickels wrote a rebuttal to an editorial that ran in the Detroit News a couple weeks ago (and which I talked about/linked to here), “Ypsilanti boasts trendy, cultural downtown.” I don’t know if the adjectives “trendy” and “thriving” are accurate, but I do agree that Ypsi is not nearly as “troubled” a place as is often depicted in the local media. Of course, that depiction in the local media is usually from that quaint town to the west and not from that truly scrappy and occasionally troubled city to the east.