As you might imagine, A2Politico gets lots of press releases. We never simply reprint press releases as “news.” That would be cheating, as any fourth grade teacher knows. Yesterday, A2P got several press releases concerning the same news story. The press releases, however, present very different perspectives. This is the first press release, from the group [...]
The end of the year-round Pell Grant program is here. During the 2010-2011 academic year, the Pell Grant award maximum per student was $5,500. In the 2008 academic year, it is estimated that the average Pell Grant awarded was $2,770, which covered approximately 42 percent of tuition and related expenses in the average U.S. four-year [...]
Representative Jeff Irwin, a Democrat, served for a decade as a Washtenaw County Commissioner. In January 2011, he began his first term in the Michigan House of Representatives. In his regular column, House Calls, A2Politico will pose a single question to Representative Irwin and he will answer it. The questions will focus on his work in [...]
You have to wonder: Did the Reverend Jesse Jackson submit his op-ed piece to either The Detroit News or the Freep before he shot it off to the editors of the Chicago Sun-Times? Did the editors of those two Michigan papers take one look at Jackson’s essay on the evils of Governor Rick Snyder and [...]
If this libretto sounds familiar, it originated in ancient Greece. Aristophanes’s comic play “Lysistrata” debuted in 411 BCE, and it is the story of one woman’s devoted efforts to end the Pelopennesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to [...]
DamnArbor said it first. On June 23, 2011 the site posted an “Open Letter To City Council candidates.” Ben Connor Berrie writes: Dear City Council candidates, With the primary election on the 2nd of August, this must be an exciting time of year for you. I realize you are probably spending a great deal of [...]
In 2004, John Hieftje appointed a Blue Ribbon Panel to study potential changes to the city’s employee pension system. Among the recommendations, was the restructuring of the Board of Trustees to remove city managers and employees. In essence, city employees control the Board, and according to the report from the Blue Ribbon Panel, “Of the [...]
by Betsy McMillin I was mulling over what topic to write about next. Then my phone rang; I ignored it. It rang again. And again. And again. I had my topic. According to an April 16, 2011 piece by April Conger for ABC News: Data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicate that tweens [...]
A2Politico has been tracking the approval ratings of Michigan’s Republican Governor Rick Snyder. In November 2010, Rick Snyder breezed past Democratic candidate Virg Bernero, and won the race for governor with 58 percent of the vote. After Governor Snyder presented his budget to the Michigan Legislature, the wheels began to come off of his PR [...]
Ann Arbor’s Project Grow is an extremely popular and often over-subscribed program under the auspices of which gardeners without the space (or who may want more space) can pay a fee to have their own little slice of black to grow gardens limited only by imagination (and the Project Grow rules, of course). Gardeners who [...]
