Tag Archives: Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

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, YACVB, Ypsi history, Ypsi History Minute | 4 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

By Mark | April 6, 2015

“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 Anthony Morgan, 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 | 11 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 […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAACVB, Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, mergers, The Ypsilanti Press, Visit Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, YACVB | 15 Comments

Why Ypsilanti’s identity, independent of Ann Arbor, is important…. and why we should fight to keep our Convention and Visitors Bureau

By Mark | March 12, 2015

It was made public today that members of the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners are considering the possibility of forcing a merger between the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (YACVB) and its counterpart in Ann Arbor. This, as I understand it from my sources, is something that the Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Marketing, Rants, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AAACVB, AAATA, Alicia Ping, Andy LaBarre, Angela Barbash, Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, Ann Arbor SPARK, brand identity, branding, consolidation, consolidation of services, dollar stores, economic development, excise tax, Family Dollar, hotel tax, hotels, identity, Joseph Sefcovic, Linette, mergers, Reconsider, Richard Murphy, Ronnie Peterson, Ruth Ann Jamnick, Saline, Sean Duval, SPARK East, the greater Ann Arbor region, venture LOCAL, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Washtenaw County Hotel and Motel Association, Washtenaw Development Council, YACVB, YDDA | 73 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Christine Laughren

By Mark | September 6, 2014

After nearly 25 years in Ypsi, the empowered little girl you see below will soon be breaking free. Please join me in wishing Christine Laughren safe travels as she embarks on the next chapter of her life, far away from the American midwest… Here’s her official exit interview. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsi? […]