Tag Archives: Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

Washtenaw County Commissioner Conan Smith on why he thinks the Ypsi Area Convention and Visitors Bureau needs to close, journalist Will Potter on the prosecution of activists as terrorists in the wake of 9/11, and the music of Edgar Cayce and His Guitar …on this weekend’s edition of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 11, 2015

[My friend Caleb Brokaw, who is truly one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I have ever known, has cancer. And there’s going to be a fundraiser for him and his family Saturday night at the Blind Pig featuring a reunited Black Jake and the Carnies. While I’d love for you to listen to this […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Economics, Marketing, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAACVB, ag gag laws, AM 1700, Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, animal rights, Caleb Brokaw, Chicago Tribune, Conan Smith, domestic terrorism, Edgar Cayce and His Guitar, environmental terrorism, fear, fear mongering, fear tactics, Free Speech, fundraisers, Green Is The New Red, investigative reporting, Jim Cherewich, journalist, Knight-Wallace Fellows, Michael Flores, Ronnie Peterson, TED, Will Potter, YACVB, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 6 Comments

Ypsi Real (let’s keep it that way)

By Mark | September 10, 2015

Over the past several months, we’ve talked quite a bit here about an attempt on the part of Ann Arbor hoteliers and their supporters on the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners to defund the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (YACVB), and move their $1.1 million annual budget to Ann Arbor, where it could help […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Marketing, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged #YpsiReal, Conan Smith, David's Books, Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Sean Duval, Ypsi Real, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 40 Comments

Washtenaw County Commissioners accused of making “veiled threats” in an attempt to force an Ann Arbor takeover of the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

By Mark | September 3, 2015

Last night, during a committee meeting of the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Commissioner Alicia Ping made public the fact that several of her fellow commissioners had attempted to broker a “backroom” deal that would close the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (YACVB) and effectively shift its $1.1 million budget to the Ann Arbor […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Marketing, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alicia Ping, Andy LaBarre, Conan Smith, Debbie Locke-Daniel, Felicia Brabec, Ronnie Peterson, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, YACVB, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 59 Comments

Foiling anti-Ypsi plots hatched in Ann Arbor, singing and talking animal dissection with Annie Palmer, and discussing the whereabouts of our most evil trees… on episode twelve of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 13, 2015

This week’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack was an odd one. It started normal enough, with an in-depth discussion about the plot hatched in Ann Arbor to defund Ypsi’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, but then it kind of began a steady descent into madness, until, by the end of the show, we were pulling […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Marketing, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1975, 7-Eleven, AAACVB, AADL, Alexis Ford, Alicia Ping, Andru Bemis, Andy LaBarre, Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor SPARK, Annie Palmer, Armada, Bert Lahr, Brigid Mooney, Canton Belanger, Casey Dixon, Chandelier, Chris Sandon, Cross Grove, Dave Menzo, Debbie Locke-Daniel, dissection, economic development, electronic music, evil trees, Family Dollar, fern sperm, ferns, Gary Owen, Jenna Parks, Matt Siegfried, Music and Arts Guild, Native Americans, Party Busters, People's History of Ypsilanti, Pete Larson, potato chips, Ronnie Peterson, Ruth Ann Jamnick, Scooter, Sia, Slurpees, trickle down economics, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Washtenaw Development Council, YACVB, Ypsi history, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce | 19 Comments

“Be very skeptical”… A warning from 1992 concerning the merger of Convention and Visitors Bureaus

By Mark | March 17, 2015

In the wake of last week’s post about County plans to shift funds away from the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and into the coffers of its counterpart in Ann Arbor, a lot of interesting things have been showing up in my in-box. While I can’t share most of it, I thought that some […]