by P.D. Lesko My kids have nagged me this year because A2Politico.com didn’t cover local sports. I’ve teased them and said “That’s what AnnArbor.com is for.” Today, for the first time, AnnArbor.com posted a list of its most read stories (though no actual page view numbers for each story, alas) over the course of the [...]
by William Belle If somebody says “spy movie” the first thing which comes to mind is James Bond. Yep, car chases, million dollar gambling in Monte Carlo and gadgets that do all sorts of nifty things. But did the movie producers of the Bond films or even Ian Fleming for that matter actually capture the [...]
by Warren Liverance Several weeks ago, my not-so-benevolent editor and I had a chat about how and where we get our news and information. We agreed that the way we access the written word has changed radically over the past decade. So, I decided to devote a column to this issue. Since the thought processes [...]
by P.D. Lesko On December 13, 2011, A2Politico posted a piece titled, “30? 40? 50? Ann Arbor Officials Have No Idea Exactly How Many Kids Are In District Classrooms.” For several days, it was among the top 5 most clicked headlines in the nation on a national site that aggregates headlines from about 1,000 progressive [...]
by P.D. Lesko Michigan Republicans sent House Bill 4770 and House Bill 4771 to Governor Rick Snyder and on Thursday December 22, 2011 he signed the bills into law. The bills prohibit public employers from including domestic partner benefits in their public employee compensation packages, and make domestic partner benefits a prohibited subject in collective bargaining. According to [...]
It’s time for readers to help choose the A2Politico.com Whopper of the Year Award winner. A2Politico.com gave the 2010 Whopper of the Year to former City Administrator Roger Fraser. For 24 months, Fraser fibbed to Ann Arbor residents through the media and at public City Council meetings, that “property tax revenues are down.” This non-existent decrease [...]
by Pete Nicely Great minds from Mark to Monty Python to Tolstoy to Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Lloyd Weber have all interpreted the Gospel of Jesus Christ for their time and sensibilities. But all of those interpretations lack perfection because they were written before the dawn of the movement that had most clearly rendered the [...]
A2P Notes: Recently, ProgressMichigan sent this Tweet to the organization’s several thousand Twitter followers: “Strong progressive voices in Michigan: @Eclectablog @bloggingformich @NathanTriplett @A2Politico @gretchenwhitmer.” ProgressMichigan is headed by David Holtz, who served as the Clean Water Action Michigan Director for four years, during which time he built the state environmental community’s largest online community of [...]
by P.D. Lesko I read it, and I laughed. Out loud. I read it again, and laughed even more. I kept reading. Sometimes, I get bored and quit in the middle. Other times, reading this stuff is like taking flax seed oil. It’s good for me, so I do it. This time, however, I was [...]
by P.D. Lesko Michigan Republicans want to see House Bill 4770 and House Bill 4771 signed ito law by Governor Rick Snyder. The bills would prohibit public employers from including domestic partner benefits in their public employee compensation packages, and would make domestic partner benefits a prohibited subject in collective bargaining. According to a piece in the Detroit [...]
