Tag Archives: Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners

Conan Smith says he and his fellow Washtenaw County Commissioners aren’t prepared to vote on merging Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti’s Convention and Visitors Bureaus; Will Potter on how the threat of terrorism has been used to quiet activists post 9/11; and Edgar Cayce making beautiful music …on episode 26 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 14, 2015

This Wednesday evening, the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners is expected to vote on the future of the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (YACVB). According to most folks, it seems to be a foregone conclusion that our elected officials will vote to close the Ypsilanti bureau and shift their $1.17 million annual budget to […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAACVB, activism, ag gag laws, Alicia Ping, Andy LaBarre, Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Conan Smith, Edgar Cayce, Edgar Cayce and His Guitar, FBI, fear, fear tactics, Free Speech, Green Is The New Red, Michael Flores, Ronnie Peterson, Ruth Ann Jamnick, Will Potter, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 43 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, Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Conan Smith, Debbie Locke-Daniel, Felicia Brabec, Ronnie Peterson, YACVB, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 59 Comments

Taking on the New York literary establishment with Michael Jackman, celebrating Fathers Day with Jim Roll, and making life better for our most vulnerable neighbors with Keta Cowan… on episode 20 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | June 25, 2015

I enjoyed the hell out of last Saturday night’s episode, and I’d like to thank everyone who had a hand in it. If you missed the live broadcast, and you’d like to check it out, you can either download the podcast by way of iTunes or stream it on Soundcloud. Or, if you want, you […]

Posted in Awesome Foundation, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alan Almond, AM 1700, Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, Back Porch Video, Beef Rag, Dave Eggers, Detroit Metro Times, Detroit River, Doug Holland, Factsheet Five, film school, Hamtramck, hipsters, inauthenticity, Inspector 18, Keta Cowan, Matt Siegfried, McSweeney's, Michael Jackman, New York City, Pathetic Life, Pete Larson, Pillow Talk, punk, Rick Moody, suicide, Synod Community Services, The Painted Lady, Underground Literary Alliance, undocumented resident, undocumented workers, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, Washtenaw ID Project, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, WICIR, Williamsburg, Zine World, zines | 7 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 Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, 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 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 […]