On March 3, 2011 A2Politico posted a piece about a poll conducted by the Freep in which it was reported that 27 percent of Michigan voters polled disapproved of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s performance. In particular, during his first two months in office, Snyder had lost the confidence of independents and Democrats who had supported [...]
Jack Lessenberry guessed not too long ago that, perhaps, U.S. Representative Gary Peters would lose his seat when Michigan’s Republicans redistrict the state. Lessenberry also posited that Representatives Conyers and Dingell would be forced into a 2012 clash of the titans. On the one hand, Michigan has Governor Rick Snyder and his quasi-Aztec religion of [...]
A2PNotes: This is filed under Scoops & Scores!! because you read it here first. In case no one told you, there are politicos in Ann Arbor who want the city to have a sparking new hotel and conference center built atop the finished underground library lot parking garage. They want it now! Like Willy Wonka [...]
A2PNotes: Ann Arbor is home to some 16,000 public school students, and approximately 1,700 students who attend the city’s various private schools. Those students are parented by tens of thousands of women and men who haven’t a clue about what their kids really do at school all day, not because they don’t want to know. [...]
Less is more. Tell that to any American kid and see what kind of a response you get. If for some reason, you are having a hard time picturing entitled kids (which I doubt), think of the book/film Willy Wonka with the lovely Miss Varuca Salt. Remember her? Her entitled demands for an Oompah-Loompah (or [...]
Shortly after he was hired, Ann Arbor Fire Chief Dominick Lanza stood up in public and said fewer firefighters wouldn’t impact public safety. Then he quit “for family reasons,” when City Administrator Roger Fraser floated the idea of a blended on-call/paid fire department in order to cut costs. One month later, Lanza sent a letter to [...]
On March 11, 2011 A2Politico broke the story (with some help, of course) about the layoff of 14 newsroom staff at AnnArbor.com. MichiganRadio followed up with a short blurb, and by this beginning of this week, local bloggers, including Mark Maynard, freefromeditors, and the Publisher of the AnnArborChronicle.com were chiming in on what the layoffs [...]
Sometimes, other people beat A2Politico to the punch, and that’s perfectly fine. In fact, sometimes it’s a bit of a relief. The Weekly Whopper this time around goes to AnnArbor.com Kontent King (Chief Content Officer) Tony Dearing for his incredible assertion that the news site gave the heave-ho to close to one-third of its newsroom [...]
A2PNotes: In 2010, John Hieftje and First Ward Council member Sandi Smith both ran for re-election and patted themselves on the back for “doubling beds at the homeless shelter.” If you count a chair as a bed, Hieftje and Smith were telling the truth. In November of 2009, Ann Arbor City Council made an “emergency [...]
Ann Arbor City Council members are feeling intense heat over repeated delays in the replacement of the Stadium Bridge. Fourth Ward Council member Marcia Higgins ran for re-election in 2009 and claimed the Stadium Bridge was one of her “main concerns.” It’s two years later, and Higgins is up for re-election once again. When Mayor [...]
