Following are my extremely rough, admittedly incomplete notes on tonight’s meeting of the Ypsilanti Police-Community Relations / Black Lives Matter Joint Task Force. If you were also in the audience, and have something to add, please leave a comment. And, of course, feel free to weigh in on whatever you read below. As you’ll soon […]
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Members of the Ypsilanti community talk with city officials about living in fear of the police and how we can work together to make things better
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged anger, Anne Brown, black lives matter, body cameras, cell phones, Citizen Review Board, Crisis Intervention Team, cultural awareness, Dan Vogt, de-escalation, Eastern Washtenaw Safety Alliance, Emmett Till, Heritage Fest, implicit bias, Jerry Clayton, mental health, mental illness, Nicole Brown, over policing, police violence, prison industrial complex, racism, sentencing disparities, subject control, Tony DeGiusti, use of force, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Ypsilanti police department 95 Comments
Discussing race, pushing back against the “greater Ann Arbor area” brand, singing our asses off, and exploring Civil War-era cures for chronic masturbation… on episode eleven of The Saturday Six Pack
“From an old converted barbershop inside the area’s largest all-nude strip club comes the eleventh episode of the Saturday Six Pack With Mark Maynard…” This past Saturday’s show, it seems to me, was probably our most musical one to date. While we covered a hell of a lot of ground, talking about everything from race […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Asheville, balls, Chris Sandon, chronic masturbation, Civil War, Civil War reenactors, Community Records, Freshest of the Bunch, hatchets, Jim Cherewich, John Brannon, John Denver, Kayj Michelle, Kelli Harden-Klenotic, laxatives, masturbation, Matt Jones, Misty Lyn Bergeron, Moisturizer Talk, muskets, New Holland Brewing, North Carolina, pedicures, People's Retort, Pete Larson, self-inflicted gunshot wounds, sing-alongs, squatting, Target, testicles, The Moth, Tony Morgan, Traffic Jam, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau 11 Comments
Tony Morgan, Matt Jones, the identity of Ypsi, and much more on this weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack
How do I stay so skinny eating 50 pancakes a day? Easy, I keep having my head moved to different bodies! And you can too. Just get a job as on-air talent at an AM radio station with a world class graphic design department… For more life lessons like this one, be sure to tune […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Aura Rosser, beer, black lives matter, Elize Jekabson, Eric Garner, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, Kate de Fuccio, Kayj Michelle, Kelli Harden-Klenotic, Matt Jones, Michael Brown, New Holland Brewing, police abuse, police state, police tactics, race, Tony Morgan, Trayvon Martin, White Hatter 8 Comments