On February 3, 2011 A2Politico posted an entry that explained why Ann Arbor streets were being plowed so much more slowly than those tended to by the county and surrounding cities. In short, Ann Arbor’s Director of Operations, Sue McCormick, who directly oversees the plowing operations, had allowed the first five snow plows sent out [...]
March is right around the corner, and this past primary election season Ann Arbor residents and voters were assured by John Hieftje, Margie Teall, Carsten Hohnke, Sandi Smith and City Administrator Roger Fraser in the pages of AnnArbor.com, A2Journal, The Michigan Daily, the Ann Arbor Observer and on AnnArborChronicle.com that work “was scheduled” to begin [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes politicians get confused about the facts. It’s bound to happen. Other times, politicos just tell whoppers. Most do it because the local media don’t bother to check out the facts. Often, politicos get their political friends to corroborate their whoppers. I think the idea is that the more politicos who repeat a whopper as [...]
