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Sex, Oil, and Videotape | Mother Jones
"Looming over Saylor's confrontation with Bolenbaugh was the EPA's September 27 cleanup deadline, and it appears that Enbridge and its contractors were feeling the pressure as it drew near. In early September, after the Michigan Messenger published its exposé on the use of undocumented workers by Hallmark Industrial, another group of workers employed by a different Enbridge contractor came forward with detailed stories of how they had been instructed to conceal oil at the same site. Workers would land on an island, they said, remove all vegetation, and then lay out absorbent pom-poms, all per EPA regulations. But once the top layer of oil was absorbed, they were instructed to rake dirt over the area to make it appear as though it had been dug out. One worker described his supervisor showing him the process step-by-step, concluding with sprinkling a thin layer of dirt on top. "He said, 'There, now they can't see it. It is clean,'" the worker told the Messenger. Another worker described being told to cover pockets of oil with leaves and sticks. As a last step, such areas were cordoned off with caution tape."
oilspill  Kalamazoo  local  whistleblower 
4 weeks ago by Vaguery
Welcome to The Bessenberg Bindery NEW website | The Bessenberg Bindery - Custom Case Bound Books from Thomson-Shore
"The Bessenberg Bindery has served the university, medical, legal, publishing, advertising and book collecting communities in southern Michigan since 1978.

We are a hand book bindery that offers a full range of sewn, hardcover book binding, custom boxes, book repair, prototype objects, custom photo album and scrap books, portfolios, and desk accessories. We quote on jobs as small as one book, or as large as 500.

We are a craft shop and all our work is customized to meet our clients' varied requirements. In both original binding and book repairs we stress attractiveness, proper fit and durability."
local  bookbinding  making  project  vendor 
september 2011 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle | Column: Grover and Me
"We should check back in a few years to see how the “inevitably” thing is working out. I liked Republicans better back when, like Richard Nixon, they were all Keynesians. So I have a hard time figuring out how any jobs will be created when millions of families lose disposable income through higher taxes, just to provide tax breaks to a much smaller number of businesses. (If we were investing the added revenue in public infrastructure to enable private profits, like roads, schools and bridges, it would be a different story.) To whom are Michigan businesses going to sell their goods and services, when me and everybody else in the state has to fork over all our extra cash to Rick Snyder?"
corporatism  Michigan  politics  Republicanism-is-not-conservatism  Rick-Snyder  local 
july 2011 by Vaguery
There Are No Heroes Here | Urban Oasis
This is not to say that local homeowners are off the hook. In Ann Arbor, which I studied for my masters thesis, I think they deserved a good bit of blame on some occasions. In many cases former students, when they become homeowners, shift their alliances and values, something we see especially when students of the 60s, 70s, and early 80s reaped the benefits of urban deindustrialization as students with cheap housing and of urban revitalization as homeowners with rising property values.
local  Ann-Arbor  housing  real-estate  economics  economic-development-will-destroy-the-city  universities 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Comparing Detroit To Other Cities? Look At The Map! | DetroitUnspun - The Detroit Regional News Hub
"One of the most common discussion points we see around Detroit is comparing it to other cities. Although we believe Detroit stands on its own, it’s natural to try to relate our situation with others.

However, many comparisons are drawn to cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston – and then we got to thinking."
local  geography  cultural-assumptions  maps  flyover-country 
august 2010 by Vaguery
Lesko Lie Of the Day #5 « arborblahg
"These are not the only comments posted to A2Politico that have gone into the ether. I’ve received emails from readers who say they’ve posted corrections to Lesko’s statements, links to sites that disprove her claims, and even links to stories she very selectively cites from. All have been deleted Soviet-style.…"
local  Ann-Arbor  politics  campaign 
july 2010 by Vaguery
makerfaire.com: Maker Faire Detroit 2010: Call for Entries
"We are now accepting entries for the 1st Annual Maker Faire Detroit, July 31 and August 1, 2010 at The Henry Ford. This year's focus is on Young Makers, and we are excited to be engaging Makers of all ages around innovation, inspiration and education. We look forward to reviewing your application."
engineering  Makers  maker-culture  local  Detroit  call-for-papers 
march 2010 by Vaguery
AcroCamp
"It’s a dramatic and human experience. The kind of experience that they make movies about.

So let’s make a movie.

It’s tentatively titled Acro Camp. Four pilots from different walks of life and around the country gather in Michigan in May or thereabouts to take over a Part 61 flight school for four days and fly aerobatics for the first time."
filmmaking  people-I-know  aeronautics  makers  collaboration  local 
january 2010 by Vaguery
Join A2oops (a2oops)
"The majority of Council voted against the Anglin - Briere resolution to publish the Council meeting emails. The Council majority have said that if this is important to the citizens of Ann Arbor let them pay for it and do the work the Council claims is so expensive.
We ask your help in obtaining the information. There will be some minor expense but if shared by many it should not be prohibitive. The typical charge so far has been less than $3.00 per meeting for the requests.
because many sites will host material without charge, we believe our group can make the information publicly available at very little cost. In any case we can have some fun and a learning experience."
local  Ann-Arbor  FOIA  email  transparency  open-meetings-act  repository  government 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Detroit vs. Rest of U.S. in Unemployed Per Job Posting
"Unemployed per job posting in the top 50 U.S. metros."
financial-crisis  local  Michigan  bellwethers  economics  public-policy  Civil-War  government-as-theater  sometimes-life-gives-you-enough-lemons-to-send-lemonade-on-to-the-more-fortunate 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Dusty Diary: “Cabbage Night” was Ypsilanti’s original Halloween
"Though one of our most ancient holidays, Halloween wasn’t celebrated widely in America until the latter part of the 1800s. Ypsilanti likely didn’t celebrate Halloween for half a century after the city’s founding in 1823—the quote above is the first Halloween story to appear in old newspapers dating back to the 1840s."
nanohistory  history  local  Halloween  cultural-norms  cultural-assumptions 
november 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Library Lot
"I’m in the future camp. It seems to me that greatness was never achieved by focusing on today. We celebrate “visionaries” for good reason. I’m not one of them but I sense their presence. If you’re one of those guys, keep it up. But remember, you’ve got to get through today to get to tomorrow."
local  Ann-Arbor  development  politics  glass-is-half-full 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Ypsi Project
"I started the Ypsi Project in January of this year. I started the project for various reasons - it was a way to force myself to get out, to meet people, get involved, etc…and it was going relatively well, I thought. I began to focus more on portraits than on objects or places. I was encouraged and excited about the willingness and enthusiasm of the people that I met.

Then I started a new job and lots of personal things began to take up a significant amount of my attention and energy, blah, blah, excuses, excuses."
photography  local  gallery  Ypsilanti  localism  kawgooshkawnick 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Open.Michigan: U-M Community
"The following groups strengthen Open.Michigan through related efforts, resources, input, and ongoing discussion around the initiative."
openness  open-access  local  University-of-Michigan  creative-commons  courseware  free-as-in-useful 
september 2009 by Vaguery
About « A²: Mini Maker Faire
"The a2 mini maker faire will be held at the Neutral Zone on August 29th
For viewers:
Doors open: 10am
Doors close: 5pm
After-party: TBD"
makers  local  Ann-Arbor  meeting 
august 2009 by Vaguery
Sweet Juniper!
"I've seen "feral" used to describe dogs, cats, even goats. But I have wondered if it couldn't also be used to describe certain houses in Detroit. Abandoned houses are really no big deal here. Some estimate that there are as many as 10,000 abandoned structures at any given time, and that seems conservative. But for a few beautiful months during the summer, some of these houses become "feral" in every sense: they disappear behind ivy or the untended shrubs and trees planted generations ago to decorate their yards. The wood that framed the rooms gets crushed by trees rooted still in the earth. The burnt lime, sand, gravel, and plaster slowly erode into dust, encouraged by ivy spreading tentacles in its endless search for more sunlight."
houses  Detroit  local  financial-crisis  abandonment  photography  geography  exploration  social-norms 
august 2009 by Vaguery
The Wisdom of Fun: Harnessing games & play for useful work
"Humans are habitual problem-solvers, so obsessed with puzzles and patterns that for millennia we’ve posed riddles and created games to fill our “idle time.” But these obsessive problem-solving habits are traditionally seen as a distraction from the “real work” of business, scholarship and public policy.

That is no longer true… if it ever was.

This is the first of a series of three open-format workshops scheduled for 2009 & 2010, where we’ll gather to explore the new ways game play is becoming “useful” work—useful for people and institutions."
Workantile  Vague-Innovation  UnitedTalk  workshop  open-space  conference  barcamp  local  Ann-Arbor  games  crowdsourcing  invitation 
august 2009 by Vaguery
[FORTH FROM ITS HINGES]
"The site-based production offers artists and audiences alike the opportunity to experience large-scale installations and experimental performances that transcend the usual and explore the unknown--this is not a gallery, club, concert hall, or street fair. The young FFIH curators aim to expose and expand their own community of unseen talent by producing a series that is free from expectation, free from censorship, free from tradition, and free of charge. Forth From Its Hinges seeks to represent local art, not as it exists today, but as what it can and will be in the future."
art  local  Ann-Arbor  culture  community 
july 2009 by Vaguery
i3Detroit - Metro Detroit's Art & Technology collective
"i3 Detroit will be renting a 600 square foot loft space which we are allowed to finish the space as we wish. The ceilings are 14 ft high and our monthly rent includes our electricity as well. Once we have signed the lease and have our $1400 we will immediatly begin the build out of our new space. Once the space has been built out we will be holding a Grand Opening party for both members and non members to come and see the new space."
local  Detroit  hacking  hackerspace  makers  technology  collective 
july 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: How a Skilled Politician Plays Chess
This is how a newspaper should work. And note: no business was closed and re-opened to escape legal obligations to pay employee benefits to create this story.
local  journalism  blogging  disintermediation-in-action  newspaper  Ann-Arbor  depth 
july 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » City and Residents to Make Tree Policy
"We asked the city of Ann Arbor for all the electronic deliverables from Davey. And we provide the following data with a caveat: On Monday evening, city staff stressed that they were still doing some quality control work on the initial data set – so the data provided to The Chronicle is a snapshot of the city’s trees as assessed by the Davey Resource Group. The city’s inventory will presumably be maintained as a frequently updated data set that changes as trees are pruned, removed, or planted."
local  Ann-Arbor  GIS  raw-data-now  trees  dataset  mapping  transparency  open-access  public-policy 
july 2009 by Vaguery
WWJ Newsradio 950 - Not Their Parents' Basement: Students Open Incubator On Ground Floor
"A group of student entrepreneurs has opened a small-business incubator in the basement of a downtown Ann Arbor building. They'll spend the summer sharing space, equipment and ideas.

The incubator, called the TechArb, hosts 30 students running 10 different start-ups. The space came together with the help of Ann Arbor venture capital firm RPM Ventures, the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship, and a new student-run entrepreneurial organization on campus, Maize Ventures."
venture-capital  entrepreneurship  local  University-of-Michigan  technology  kids 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Detroit UnReal Estate Agency
via:regine  real-estate  financial-crisis  local  art 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Ann Arbor Summer Festival - Events - Activities & Attractions
"Uncork your experimental mind! UM School of Art & Design brings its Animation Station to the Top of the Park for three nights of community movie-making using the techniques of stop-motion animation.

The Animation Station is easy to use and allows you to create your own stop-motion animation without previous experience. Dry-erase markers, a whiteboard and various objects for animating will be your tools. Whether it's political satire, random drawings, personal confession, or viral experimentation - bring your imagination and join the loop. (And, if you want, bring your own materials too.)"
local  Ann-Arbor  participation  crowdsourcing  collaboration  art  community  animation  making 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Action Teams — Community Success
"Some teams have formed and started to meet. Others are still seeking leadership. If you would like to join a team, click on the action item below. If you are interested in being a champion for other actions or want to lead a team, contact Tony VanDerworp."
local  development  public-policy  Ann-Arbor 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Washtenaw Avenue Talent Center — Community Success
"The retention and attraction of talented, creative people is a principle resource that grows a successful regional economy enhancing the quality of place over the long term. While the Ann Arbor region provides a variety of housing, there is a serious gap in providing afforable places for talent to live. Residents that are just starting their career have limited affordable housing choices in the City of Ann Arbor. The talent workforce prefers vibrant places to live which are also in close proximity to public transit."
economic-development  local  Ann-Arbor  development  talent  Floridaism  housing  public-transportation  public-policy 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Superpatron - Edward Vielmetti is Mobilizing the Friends of the Library for the Blind: June is crazy at the Ann Arbor District Library
The seat of sanity in this stupid crazy town of ours: the library.

"Eli narrates the June events calendar at the AADL - quite a collection, including nerdcore superhero MC Frontalot playing Top Of The Park for Video Game Night."
AADL  local  Ann-Arbor  thank-you-for-being-you 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Dusty Diary: Ypsilanti Teen Diarist Allie McCullough at an 1874 Open Mike Night
"Most of the Lyceum topics were ones that to modern sensibilities would seem unbelievably trite, pedantic, and didactic. It's hard to get into the 19th-century mindset and grasp how anyone could sit through these talks instead of, say, trimming one's toenails. But this was a popular pastime, in a society with no radio, no telephone, no movie theater, no TV. Faced with the absence of those things, I might wander down to the Lyceum hall too, to see what my friends were presenting on."
community  local  history  Ypsilanti  nanohistory  newspaper  digitization  Lyceum  Kawgooshkawnick 
june 2009 by Vaguery
SI People: Faculty Profile
"Teasley's current research focuses on the social and cognitive processes in collaboration. She researches technology use to support key aspects of collaboration for both co-located groups and distributed groups. She has extensive experience assessing work practices and user needs, and designing, implementing, and evaluating technology use. She has conducted her work in schools, Fortune 500 companies, and with the biomedical community where she has helped to support the scientific activity in several distributed research centers. She is also involved in the development and evaluation of collaborative tools for academic research and teaching in higher education. "
via:jyew  collaboration  user-experience  community  communication  local  Ministry-of-Information  worklife  social-affordances 
may 2009 by Vaguery
SI People: Ph.D Student Profile
"I study the building of bridges, wikis in organizations, and interventions with newly hired employees in order to understand how distributed work gets done and how social computing technologies are engaged in that work. I'm especially interested in learning that takes place when people work together. I aim to contribute new ways of thinking about distributed work, learning in collaboration, and the roles of social computing in both. "
via:jyew  collaboration  worklife  crowdsourcing  communication  community  social-dynamics  research  local  Ministry-of-Information 
may 2009 by Vaguery
How to work with a co-worker who has Aspergers/autism | eHow.com
"If you were ever picked on as a kid, you may have an idea of what it feels like to be a person with Aspergers in a typical office. The difference is that the person with Aspergers might not look any different than anyone else. But just like that kid on the playground, a person with Aspergers is likely to be just as confused as to why they are being "picked on". Reaching out to a person with Aspergers/autism, or at the very least working in a harmonious way, can do wonders for their self-esteem and earn you a loyal friend in the process."
community  local 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Sweet Juniper!
BE SURE to click through and load the images.

"Last week I read in the morning paper about a street here where 60 out of 66 homes were vacant or abandoned on a single block. The reporter called it a "ghost street." Yesterday I found myself in the area. Other than an errant sofa, the street was completely empty, almost peaceful. I took a photo of every house on the north side of one block and then stitched them together. If you were to compare the current international housing crisis to a black hole sucking the equity out of our homes, this one-way street near the northern border of Detroit might just be the singularity: the point where the density of the problem defies anyone's ability to comprehend it. These homes started emptying in 2006."
Detroit  local  singularity  abandoned  financial-crisis  urbanism  photography  economics  crisis  recession 
may 2009 by Vaguery
naked capitalism: Chrysler Alleged to Have Acted in Bad Faith in Dealer Closings
"“I’m mad at myself for being duped all these years by them and going along with all of the things they wanted me to do,” said Homer Cutrubus, a Chrysler dealer in Utah since 1969. “If I treated my customers like Chrysler treated me, I wouldn’t have any business.”

For years, Chrysler had been urging Mr. Cutrubus and other dealers to combine dealerships with just one or two of the company’s brands into “alpha” stores selling all three: Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep. It stepped up that pressure in February, he said, and in April he finally agreed to move his Dodge store in Layton, Utah, into a Chrysler-Jeep showroom half a mile away, even though he thought the change made little sense financially and had to be done at his own expense."
local  bad-faith  Chrysler  lawsuit  financial-crisis  burn-your-supply-chain 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Sweet Juniper!
"I happen to believe that this blog tells a positive story. It is the story of a family unsatisfied with a typical yuppie trajectory in San Francisco who intentionally moved to the most maligned city in America. It is the story of a man who finds that city beautiful in ways that may be difficult to understand at first, though if you stay long enough he'll try to explain. It's the story of thousands of people around the world who for some reason return to this website despite having no connection to this failing Rust Belt, one-industry town wounded by racism and poverty but surviving with a compelling grace. This is, I believe, ultimately a story with hope: another family choosing to root itself where so many are warned never to go. A city full of beautiful people surviving among the ruins. Strangers who come here to read with care and concern in their hearts. A seed that germinates in words never before read."
blogging  local  writing  culture  inspiration  Detroit  personal  urban  photography  mindfulness 
may 2009 by Vaguery
University of Michigan Scientific Club
'...paper read before the club by Calvin Thomas, entitled "The Devil"...'
local  history  archives  library  papers 
may 2009 by Vaguery
The Cherries of Wrath: 1940 | Shorpy Photo Archive
"July 1940. Berrien County, Michigan. "Migrant fruit workers from Arkansas." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA."
photography  history  regional  local  Michigan  Great-Depression  portraiture 
may 2009 by Vaguery
What Do Universities Sell? - BudGibson.com
"Universities are going through a tough time financially. People no longer have to attend them to get the credentials they need. People inside universities think they are selling an experience and that people are turning away from that. I think universities were always selling credentials.

They're just not the only place to get them any more."
local  economics  marketing  education  universities  credentials 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Dusty Diary: A Mistaken Idea about Electric Light
"The ad protests a bit too much that the higher cost of electrification is actually a LOWER cost once you figure in the benefits. People are creatures of habit, and I'm sure many Ypsilantians said, "No--the gaslights I've got now are fine, thanks." An imperfect analog today is solar power. Of course it's more expensive, and similarly offers benefits in the long run. Perhaps one day every home will come with built-in panels and we will look back on DTE as something as quaint as gaslight."
history  nanohistory  technology  advertising  local  Ypsilanti  Washtenaw  kawgooshkawnick 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Blair Museum of Lithophanes - Home
Wandered here after following up on the A2 Mech Shop open house http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/04/13/electric-vehicles-to-be-produced-in-scio/
local  Toledo  porcelain  art  decorative-art  images  carving  nanohistory 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Detroit Adventure Pass - Cranbrook Art Museum
Closing in a few days!
AADL  local  museum  sightseeing 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Penguicon Science Fiction and Open Source Convention
"Penguicon 7.0 will be May 1 through 3, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Romulus, Michigan."
geeks  convention  science-fiction  blogging  conferences  Detroit  Michigan  open-source  software  Linux  computers  local 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Borgger - Idea: Link up thousands of home workshops to create decentralized manufacturing powerhouse
"Think it can't be done? Surprise: What is past is prologue.
Great Britain faced an existential threat back in the 1940s in the form of the overwhelming Nazi military juggernaut that conquered all of continental Europe. Hitler then blockaded and prepared to invade isolated England.
Without enough metal to re-build new airplanes with, England turned to home wood workers and small furniture builders to build a wood-bodied, twin engine light fighter bomber that became known as the de Havilland Mosquito. The resulting plane became the fastest (>400 mph) bomber of the war and contributed in large part to eventual Allied victory. 7,800 wooden planes were made."
via:mahatm  crowdsourcing  local  collaboration  industry  communitarianism  economics  economic-crisis  manufacturing 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Chelsea Community Kitchen - Local Food Summit
local  food  incubator  business-development  kitchen  restaurants  business  Washtenaw 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Washtenaw County MI-SBTDC: Chelsea Michigan Kitchen Incubator Project
"Today began the first in a series of meetings to discuss the possibility of creating a Kitchen Incubator in the Washington Street Education Center. This plan would take advantage of the existing cafeteria kitchen space by repurposing it for local entrepreneurs. As this was an initial brainstorming meeting specific details were not discussed rather a broad range of topics related to the success or failure of this new venture. The discussion was organized yet still very open and conducive for creative thoughts thanks to the presenting team of Victoria Bennett and Krissa Rumsey, of Washtenaw Community College."
MI-SBTDC  local  business-development  Ann-Arbor  Washtenaw  incubator  entrepreneurship  community  support  cooking  food 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Minigrants: Arts Alliance
"The Arts Alliance is the local administrator of the Minigrant program, which awards grants of up to $4,000 to Michigan nonprofit organizations for high quality, locally developed projects that increase public access to art and culture. Organizations applying through the Arts Alliance must be from Livingston, Monroe or Washtenaw Counties. They may be arts or non-arts nonprofit organizations, public or private schools, cities, townships, or villages. Activities such as exhibits, performances, artist residencies, festivals, and conferences are eligible for funding. For more information or to download a Minigrant application and guidelines, see the FAQs."
arts  nonprofit  funding  mini-grants  local  Ann-Arbor  Workantile 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Washtenaw County MI-SBTDC
"The MI-SBTDC network is a grassroots advocate for small businesses working in partnership with local resources to strengthen companies. New ventures, in particular, may be unfamiliar with funding sources and support services. The MI-SBTDC works hard throughout Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee, and Washtenaw Counties to uncover opportunities and build relationships with organizations providing the extra assistance that makes a real difference to entrepreneurs."
local  business  business-development  Ann-Arbor  Washtenaw  Charlie-Penner 
march 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: Why We Grieve The Ann Arbor News
"They’re boarding my plane. As I get ready to pack up my laptop and go, I feel as though I’m leaving something precious behind, and moving toward a future in which the landscape of my life has unalterably shifted. I don’t know what the future will be in this new place. But I don’t feel I’m alone."
local  Ann-Arbor  news  reporting  media  personal-experience  history  transitions  tradition 
march 2009 by Vaguery
ArborWiki | Susan Pollay
a2DDAmage  DDA  local  Ann-Arbor  politics  openness  our-tiny-time-of-troubles 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library - News Briefs
"The Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library will have a Fund Raiser in the form of an Auction on Friday, March 20th, 2009"
FAADL  AADL  library  local  Ann-Arbor  sale  auction 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Data - a2geeks - Confluence
"This page (and sub-pages) contains a list of data related to Ann Arbor. Feel free to add pages describing additional datasets. Copy an existing data page to get the correct format, so the data will appear in the summary table below."
mashup  Ann-Arbor  local  data  openness  a2DDAmage  transparency 
march 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » AATA Announces Two Finalists
"So we have now filed the required written request with AATA, as specified in the Michigan Open Meetings Act, in order to ensure that in the future The Chronicle is notified in a timely way of special meetings of the board. Here is the relevant section of the act:..."
local  Ann-Arbor  AATA  transportation  transparency  privacy  law  letter-if-not-spirit 
march 2009 by Vaguery
A2-Park
trek  local  Ann-Arbor  parking  a2DDAmage  DDA  watershed  openness  open-access 
march 2009 by Vaguery
thoughtbox
"I would greatly appreciate a list detailing these security risks, the process by which they were identified, and the names and titles of the people at the DDA (or people who the DDA contacted) who have the necessary technical expertise to both determine and enact this identification process. A reply by email is sufficient, although I am willing to submit a formal FOIA request by mail for this information."
trek  local  openness  transparency  Downtown-Development-Authority  Ann-Arbor  a2DDAmage  disintermediation  watershed 
march 2009 by Vaguery
A2DDA Blocks Asterisk Parking Data | VoIP Tech Chat
“Hi all. Over the last day or so I have talked about your project with a few DDA members and what arose from these conversations was a shared concern that because the project was not an initiative created by/run by the DDA there are no controls in place for this at present. For instance, there is no DDA policy about how to allow /or even if it should allow an outside group to use the DDA’s parking data for a private enterprise. There is a concern about how unsecure/secure the DDA website is made when sharing this data. And finally, a concern that if the project had value to parking patrons, that the DDA itself should consider providing this service as an extension of what it is already doing on-line.”
community  activism  data-access  openness  government  government2.0  local  Ann-Arbor  disintermediation  watershed 
march 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Ypsi Twp.: Aerotropolis
"The Detroit News reports that Ypsilanti Township is among three municipalities that have recently agreed to join the Detroit Region Aerotropolis Initiative, at a cost of $25,000 a year. The public-private sector partnership aims to develop roughly 60,000 acres from Detroit Metro Airport to Willow Run Airport. The article states that the city of Ypsilanti and Van Buren Township agreed to join last year."
local  development  transportation  airport  aerotropolis  economy  public-policy 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Talk about conference center in Ann Arbor raises lot of issues - Latest from the Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
"What would likely be the most desirable to out-of-town event planners, is a facility that's at least 60,000 square feet with 400 hotel rooms, parking and food service all under one roof, near downtown, says Mary Kerr, president of the visitors bureau."
local  development  conferences  economic-development  Ann-Arbor  inertialism 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Model D - Whiskey Town: As Blowout Beckons, a Look at Hamtramck's Barroom Legacy
"Kowalski says that bars were used to grow political bases and owners were very civic-minded people. "Social organizations were formed at bars and city meetings were held at bars. Bars sponsored events and sports teams. They weren't just bars," Kowalski says."
mentioned-in-passing  local  history  Hamtramck  sociology  community 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Genetics Squared's cancer test to create 15 jobs in Ann Arbor
"Genetics Squared's test would be able to tell which category the patients fit into, potentially saving hospitals loads of money in unnecessary treatment and patients debilitating chemotherapy. The company hopes to begin marketing the test by the third quarter of this year."
genetic-programming  diagnostics  clinical  applications  local  Ann-Arbor  product-development  design-automation  machine-learning 
march 2009 by Vaguery
How you get your CSM does matter!
"Over three days, we put theory into action through a variety of exercises. We cover the fundamental principles of Scrum, qualifying you as a Certified ScrumMaster. More important, we give you a jump start dealing with the obstacles that confront Scrum teams. You'll leave much better equipped to put Scrum in place and succeed with it."
local  training  certification  Scrum  Ron-Jeffries  Chet-Hendrickson  Detroit  software-development 
march 2009 by Vaguery
2006 Nonemployer Statistics Total for all sectors Ann Arbor, MI Metropo
"Nonemployer Statistics originate from tax return information of the Internal Revenue Service. The data are subject to nonsampling error such as errors of self-classification by industry on tax forms, as well as errors of response, nonreporting and coverage. Values provided by each firm are slightly modified to protect the respondent's confidentiality. For further information about methodology and data limitations, see Survey Methodology. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table."
census  local  Ann-Arbor  not-an-employee  business  employment  statistics  public-policy  business-plan 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Blue Cross posts loss of $144.9M for 2008 | detnews.com | The Detroit News
"To bolster weakening finances, Blue Cross filed a rate increase in January for its individual insurance plans asking for average increases on three types of policies: 56 percent on individual plans; 42 percent on group conversion coverage; and 31 percent for Medicare supplemental plans."
healthcare  local  BlueCross  gouging  not-an-employee  self-employment 
march 2009 by Vaguery
DaveTakes Photos
"I've decided to start blogging. Apparently people think what I do for a living is interesting so I will try and make it fab. It also help web visibility. Gotta market. Here's a fun new photo of me..."
blogging  local  photography  Concentrate  portraiture  Ann-Arbor  Detroit  Michigan 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Printing and Binding Services Offered at Deep Wood Press
" Here at Deep Wood, with the equipment we have, the possibilities are nearly endless. We can die cut, perforate, blind stamp, deboss, emboss, foil stamp and print onto most any material. Due to our "dated" technology the results of process color printing are not to par with modern day offset printing technologies but letterpress excels at most everything else if you are trying to imbue your project with a sense of timeless quality and lasting impression. There is something about the impression of type on a fine surfaced paper which is both a visual and tactile experience that is relayed to the person holding your printed material on many different levels. Do you remember the last time you noticed printing and presentation? If you think about it you'll see where our true value lies. Our products are quality not necessarily quantity."
letterpress  craftsman  local  Michigan  books  book-art  fine-binding 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Home - TechNow 09
"TechNow09 is a one-night event celebrating the transition of Michigan into a "knowledge economy."
Come meet the new technology companies leading the evolution of Michigan business."
business  local  Michigan  sad  entrepreneurship-as-pathology  symptomatic-scare-quotes 
march 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Mayor Walker: “Print it in the NEWSPAPER!”
"The resolution passed by your honorable body at your last session ordering the printing of the report of the Board of Public Works in pamphlet form and placing the distribution of the same in the hands of said board I hereby disapprove of, for the following reasons:

Such publication is not warranted by the city charter, which on page 75, section 41, prescribes the manner in which such reports shall be published, namely, in the official newspaper of the city [emphasis added]."
newspapers  history  digitization  localism  public-domain  records  community-activism  AADL  local  Ann-Arbor 
march 2009 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Sixth Monthly Milestone Message
"In spite of the media’s general belief that readers have super-short attention spans, we’ve gained new readers – and you might have noticed that we don’t always write short."
Ann-Arbor  local  news  disintermediation  success  the-Paper-of-Record 
march 2009 by Vaguery
University of Michigan | Business Intelligence
"Most large organizations have a "top-down" central planning function, although they operate externally within a "bottom-up" (market) economy. As the business environment becomes more complex, top-down planning systems have been hard pressed to adequately understand and effectively respond to the quickly-developing challenges.

To cope with the complexity, some leading organizations are introducing more market-based BI systems to help with organizational decision-making. One of the emerging practices is called, prediction markets."
conference  local  University-of-Michigan  prediction-markets  wisdom-of-crowds  decision-making 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Why not have charettes for society…a social charrette? « Thinking About Technocracy
"Who would be invited to a social charrette in a technocracy? One thinks of blue ribbon panels and legislative hearings, but those are not public deliberations in most cases…they are public hearings. A charrette is a publicly deliberative process. It has rules and structures that are pliant and disruptive influences are addressed by a combination of rhetoric and interest, not “leadership,” which is a term I find increasingly dubious. "
activism  design  decision-making  meeting  local  organization  design-pattern 
january 2009 by Vaguery
342 - “More Typical Than Any Real State of the Union”: Sinclair Lewis’s Winnemac « Strange Maps
kawgooshkawnick  local  stereotypes  maps  history  literature  USAian  Sinclair-Lewis 
december 2008 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: What The Ann Arbor News Needs
"Communicate, communicate, communicate. If you don’t tell your story, someone else will. Vickie Elmer has been interviewing people for an article about changes at The News that’s scheduled to run in the January edition of The Ann Arbor Observer – it’s probably already being delivered to local households. If The News itself had been frank about what’s happening there, she wouldn’t have much of a story to tell. And I would be writing a much different column than the one you’re reading today."
news  newspapers  local  Ann-Arbor  journalism  management  MSM  media  publishing  disintermediation 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Home Page | www.cmurc.com
research  Michigan  analytics  CMU-RC  consulting  regional  Central  local 
december 2008 by Vaguery
detroitblog » Blog Archive » Hang time
"What better reason, then, to sit back and savor the simple enjoyment of a get-together with friends at a hangout like the Chip-in, which Miller thinks is just a formal venue for the kind of casual gatherings that occur all over town."
via:vielmetti  coworking  Michigan  local  social-capital  community 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Friends in Deed: Programs and Services
Charity doing car donation and repair; local.

ASIDE: PLEASE DO NOT HYPERLINK TO WORD DOCUMENTS, PEOPLE!!! Can somebody please please revolutionize Nonprofit web design, soon?
donation  charity  local  auto-repair  Ann-Arbor  Washtenaw 
december 2008 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Column: Survey Says, “Help Us Design One”
"In an attempt to make up partly for that information deficit, I’ll suggest that we put together an online survey available here on The Chronicle to serve two specific purposes. The first goal would be to add citizen input to Fraser’s directive to staff: how do you think we could save 15% over the next two years? The second goal would be to supplement the picture of Ann Arbor that the National Citizens Survey gives.

So until the end of the year, we’ll take suggestions in the comments section of this article for survey questions along those lines. We’ll launch the survey on Jan. 1, 2009. Thanks in advance for your help."
survey  activism  local  Ann-Arbor  public-policy  government 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Airspeed: Ghost Airports - A Tour of Paul Freeman's Abandoned and Little-Known Airports Archive
airports  flying  local  Michigan  nanohistory  podcast 
december 2008 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Garment Co.
digitization  experiment  via:logista  local  Ann-Arbor  book  catalog  nanohistory  fashion 
december 2008 by Vaguery
David Erik Nelson
raconteur  local  Ann-Arbor  personae  interview  copy-editor  microcoworking 
november 2008 by Vaguery
the reclaiming of arbcamp
"I think it’s incredible work you’ve been doing lately, and I wholeheartedly endorse it" YAY!!!
via:mitten  amusing  tribalism  prejudice  Santayana-effect  local  social-networks  insular  a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy 
november 2008 by Vaguery
ArbCamp 08 - a2geeks - Confluence
arbcamp  arbcamp08  unconference  local  Ann-Arbor  BarCamp  new-blood 
november 2008 by Vaguery
"vermicelli deluxe" - Google Search
Is this a regional name for the food? Or a regional dish?
local  nomenclature  settle-an-argument  food  cuisine  restaurants  Anglicization  also-Anglicisation  Bún-thịt-nướng 
october 2008 by Vaguery
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