Last night, I vented online about the trash situation in downtown Ypsi, and, quite rightly, I was called out for it by Downtown Development Authority Treasurer Adam Gainsley, who asked in a comment why I hadn’t reached out to anyone at the DDA for their side of the story. Following, with his consent, is our […]
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The Ypsilanti Garbage Report… Chapter Two: The DDA Responds
Posted in Local Business, Ypsilanti Also tagged Adam Gainsley, Brian Brinkley, budget cuts, City Council, DDA, Downtown Development Authority, dumpsters, Eli Morrissey, fee for service, fee for use, Heikkinen, Joe Meyers, John Cool, Karen Maurer, landlords, Maurer Management, public safety, Stewart Beal, trash, Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority 33 Comments
“It would be like the nuclear arms race, but with cock-like structures.”
I uttered this sentence last night, and I thought that it should be recorded for posterity… Every year or two since 2003, when Cabinet magazine named Ypsilanti’s historic water tower the winner of it’s World’s Most Phallic Building contest, a website somewhere decides to post a story about the our beloved “brick dick.” Most recently, […]
Posted in History, Ideas, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 1889, 1890, Appeal to Reason, bad ideas, brick dick, Cabinet, cocks, Kansas, limestone, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Matt Siegfried, Most Phallic Building contest, phallic structures, phallic things, privatization, Roadtrippers, water, water towers, William R. Coats, Ypsilanti water tower 5 Comments