Last night, I went out on my first reporting assignment for the Ypsilanti Sentinel. I attended the monthly meeting of the Ypsilanti Township Planning Commission. It wasn’t what you’d call a “plum” assignment, but I was determined to make the best of it. Here are my notes: The meeting started on time. The volume on […]
Spitting Cat Collective member, Eric 2.0, makes the Channel 7 news defending the Ypsi School Board’s decision to buyout their superintendent’s contract. You can read all about it here.
Just a quick note to those of you who haven’t been following the developments on the Spitting Cat wiki site… The next meeting of our feisty, little community reporting group will be next Monday evening, May 9 (from 7:00 to 9:00). If you’re interested, you can read/edit the meeting’s agenda here. And, if you haven’t […]
Brett becomes the first of the team to “spit the cat,” by scoring a real local news story that isn’t being told anywhere else… the story of brothers Robert and Charles Pomnitz, who claim not to have been paid for work they did on the apartments which are being put up on the site of […]
Someone at Friday’s meeting brought up the Korean citizen journalism project Ohmy News. While our resources are certainly more limited, and our scope more narrow, I’m wondering what, if anything, we, the Spitting Cat crew, can learn from them. The same goes for the recently launched Bluffton Today initiative. I know that what we’re trying […]
