Earlier this summer, the trustees of the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a $1,000 grant to journalist-tuned-local civics champion Mary Morgan for the purposes of creating a how-to kit for those interested in hosting nonpartisan pre-election potlucks. Here, with more on this specific initiative, as well as on the newly formed CivCity non-profit from which […]
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CivCity’s quest to rescue American democracy, one community at a time
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged A2 Game Designers, Ann Arbor Chronicle, Ann Arbor District Library’s Summer Game, apathy, candidate forums, Candidates Gone Wild, Citizen Interaction Design, CivCity, civic engagement, civic involvement of students, civic life, civics, community potlucks, Donald Harrison, GameStart, iCivics, Johanna Epstein, League of Women Voters, local government, LocalWiki, Omari Rush, POP-X, Portland, potluck, pre-election potlucks, Sandra Day O’Connor, Sandra Gergerman, uninformed voters, Washtenaw Literacy 7 Comments
How do we deal with the homeless in Ann Arbor? Easy, hire greeters on Segways to shoo them away… Introducing Ann Arbor’s new “Ambassador” program
A few days ago, in a post about the increasing number of economic refugees making their way from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti, I noted a new program being considered by the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority (DDA) that would put a small army of paid “ambassadors” on the streets of tree town, opening doors for […]
AnnArbor.com cuts staff considerably, laying off 14
They’re not really talking about it on the AnnArbor.com site, but on Friday they laid off 14 employees. According to Michigan Radio, this leaves about 20 or so people in their newsroom. (The old Ann Arbor News, from what I’m told, had approximately 75 reporters in their newsroom.) Among those let go were lead blogger […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Media, Uncategorized Also tagged Advance Publications, Amalie Nash, Ann Arbor Chronicle, AnnArbor.com, Bison Messink, Dave Askins, Detroit Free Press, Ed Vielmetti, James Dickson, Jeff Arnold, Kaleb Roedel, Lon Horwedel, Matt Kraner, maximize profits, Newhouse, Newhouse Newspapers, Renee Tellez, S.I. Newhouse, Stefanie Murray, Sunday circular, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, Tony Dearing 42 Comments