Tag Archives: YACVB

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, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 59 Comments

A simple question about the proposed closing of the Ypsi Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

By Mark | July 18, 2015

I’ve got a question for this Saturday morning… If the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (YACVB) were to be shut down, and all of their funds were to be handed over to the folks at the Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (AAACVB), like many in Ann Arbor are conspiring to make happen, […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAACVB, Caleb Zweifler, The Nightman Cometh, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 18 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 County Board of Commissioners, Washtenaw Development Council, Ypsi history, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce | 19 Comments

The fight over the Ypsi Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Annie Palmer, long forgotten local history, and tons more… on this weekend’s edition of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 9, 2015

I think we’ve got another good show lined up for you this weekend… We’ll start out with a little local controversy, talking with Debbie Locke-Daniel, the head of the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (YACVB), about current attempts to defund her organization and hand over the task of marketing Ypsilanti to the Ann Arbor […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alexis Ford, Annie Palmer, Dave Menzo, Debbie Locke-Daniel, Gregory McIntosh, Matt Siegfried, Patrick Elkins, Scotty Karate, untold history, Ypsi history, Ypsi History Minute, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 4 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 […]