by Ernesto Van Dersar John Wiley & Sons, one of the world’s largest textbook publishers, is continuing its efforts to crack down on BitTorrent piracy. The company has now named several people who allegedly shared Wiley titles online, and is demanding a jury trial against them. If these actually go ahead it will be the first [...]
A2P Notes: This is the debut of Amy Kerr Hardin on A2Politico. However, it is not her first foray into politics or writing. She is an experienced political consultant, and in her neck of the woods (near Traverse City, Michigan) she has worked on multiple candidate campaigns. Get her answering machine and you will hear [...]
John Hieftje sat down to an interview with AnnArbor.com’s “editorial board,” almost one year ago to talk about the city’s budget. The city’s CFO Tom Crawford tagged along, primarily to nod, as it is commonly known around City Hall that Crawford uses his fingers to count, and that certain staffers in the finance department do [...]
A2PNotes: This is filed under “Scoops & Scores” because you read it here first. In answer to how often the officers on Ann Arbor’s police department simply skip the step of filing official police reports, a source within the AAPD told A2Politico: “Probably four times per month and all of the officers are doing this. [...]
[A2P Notes: This is an open letter to Ann Arbor's Mayor, John Hieftje. After it was posted, Hieftje spoke to AnnArbor.com: He "said an investigation into five recent attacks on women in the city, including two rapes Monday, is being treated with the highest priority. Police Chief Barnett Jones can have whatever resources he needs in the [...]
John Hieftje has a mantra: “crime is down.” On September 8, 2009, A2Politico posted a Whisper about Mayor Hieftje’s email response to Sunset area neighbors concerned about a growing number of daylight break-ins. On September 10, 2009, the Ann Arbor Police Department issued a Crime Alert, and a representative from the AA Police Department met with concerned neighbors. [...]
Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje has a track record of making it up as he goes along, particularly where the issue of crime in the city is concerned. Over the past several months, there have been multiple armed robberies of banks. In September of 2009, in response to a citizen email about a spate of [...]
According to the ACLU of Michigan, the right to panhandle is guaranteed in the Constitution. According to a piece yesterday in the Detroit Free Press, the ACLU of Michigan sent a letter today to Royal Oak officials asking that police stop enforcing an ordinance that makes begging a crime. The ACLU also asked that city officials to [...]
In 2008 to Dr. Andrei Borisov, a 15-year employee of U-M who had been raising questions about how some grant money was being used in the pediatrics/cardiology department. Following a meeting in which his superiors asked for his resignation, Borisov said he was escorted to his office by police officers who read a trespass warning to him and then arrested him when he [...]
We got some good news from Police Chief Barnett Jones, according to a piece posted to AnnArbor.com on February 25th. Crime is down. Crime is down nationally, according to the latest FBI Uniform Crime Reports. According to the post on AnnArbor.com, “The Ann Arbor Police Department released unofficial year-end crime statistics for 2009 last week, showing a [...]
