I’m a super hero, sort of… Let’s not skirt around the issue. It’s not that I haven’t taken a few modest steps towards disguising my true identity. I have, in fact, updated my homely, Midwestern name to something that has a bit more of an exotic flair. I’ve even converted my self-portrait to grey-scale–the missing hues make [...]
Demublican, DINO, fauxgressive. Take your pick. Here in Ann Arbor, it’s the illusion that counts. Dispelling the illusion of “liberal,” “progressive” Ann Arbor can be as easy as looking at a candidate’s campaign finance forms. As I’ve written before, one of my favorite tell-all sites is FollowTheMoney.org. Now that most of the campaign finance forms [...]
As I wrote in another entry, I am a big fan of the online news site Voiceof SanDiego.org, a non-profit news site whose writers have won numerous industry-wide accolades and awards, and aggressively pursue investigative stories in a wide variety of areas, including politics, education and the environment. One of the regular beats at VoiceofSanDiego.org [...]
I recently wrote about why AnnArbor.com needs to give us all a little peek beneath the sheets. Over the past three months, thousands of readers have frittered away time here at A2Politico. Who knows why? Habit? Boredom? Confusion? Whatever the reason, I thought it might be fun to share with A2P’s readers the top 10 most [...]
A2PNotes: This entry is filed under “Scoops & Scores” because you read it here first! The second-parent adoption bill introduced in 2008 died in the Michigan State House. Supporters of a bill to expand adoption rights to unmarried couples were disappointed, to say the least. H.B. 4259 never had a chance in the Republican-controlled Michigan [...]
Second Ward Council member Stephen Rapundalo (up for re-election) wants a city income tax. Oh, at the January 2011 Council Budget Retreat he complained that he really doesn’t support a city income tax. He went on to complain that he couldn’t figure out where people getting the idea he’s pushing a city income tax. Maybe [...]
There was a brief period when I chose to believe that the cheapest way to buy a book was to go in a Borders bookstore and pay for one with a coupon, an outrageously good deal of a coupon that seemed to appear in my inbox in a slightly different form every day: 30 percent [...]
While Ann Arbor’s City Council sits by and watches the ongoing train wreck that is “negotiations” between the city and its labor unions, and while City Administrator Roger Fraser tries mightily to bully, push, pull and take city’s labor unions to arbitration to get concessions, leaders in Grand Rapids, Michigan are trying a slightly different [...]
This is the first post by Newcombe Clark on the subject of downtown development. Newcombe ran for Ann Arbor City Council as an Independent candidate this past Fall, and A2Politico did an interview with him about his political aspirations. He is also a partner in the Moravian project, a development that was proposed for a [...]
On February 7, 2011, Kerry Lauerman, the Editor in Chief at Salon.com posted a short, but powerful feature titled, “State of Salon: A peek beneath our sheets.” Quite simply, Lauerman let Salon.com readers in on the site’s health, growth and editorial targets (politics, lifestyle and pop culture). He posts actual data concerning several of the [...]
