comprise much larger geographical areas than Kalamazoo County. A similar sized partnership in southwestern Michigan would comprise not only the Kalamazoo area, but also the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and Battle Creek, an area so large that Kalamazoo County could lose much of its local identity....
provision. He carries out the decisions of the elected council, who decide on ordinances and policy, and he, again, produces the city budget. He is thus not elected, but hired, and has no term of office, continuing in his or her role while it meets with the requirements of the council...
Ohio prepared for statehood, the Indiana Territory was created, reducing the Northwest Territory to approximately the size of present-day Ohio plus the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula and a sliver of southeastern Indiana called "The Gore...