Ann Arbor

Subscribers to my RSS feed (or JSON feed) of Ann Arbor FOIA requests will have noticed that yesterday their feed readers showed a large number of "new" posts, which were not actually new and dated from weeks ago. RSS feeds require each entry to have a unique ID, …

Last night, ahead of publishing on Damn Arbor this morning’s editorial on the role of campaign contributions in Monday’s Y Lot vote, I sent the following email to all members of City Council: I was disappointed that Council failed to pass this resolution last night. In my view, …

Using Alvaro Carto plus some Photoshop, I recently made some nice Ann Arbor-themed wallpaper for my iPhone X. There are two parts: a blurred version for your home screen, and an unblurred version for your lock screen. It looks like this: New #annarbor-themed iPhone wallpaper. (Thanks to https://t.co/ …

A while ago, in spring 2017, I filed FOIA requests with U-M and the AAPD to retrieve a crash report and two dashcam videos of the March 16, 2017 incident in which an AAPD vehicle collided with a light post on the Diag while pursuing a suspect. The crash report …

Ali Ramlawi is running as an independent for City Council this year, in Ward 5, against Chip Smith. I happened upon Ali’s Ann Arbor Votes profile today, and I found some of his stated positions very problematic.1 He says that opponents to the project are often inaccurately labeled …

An adaptation of an email I wrote tonight to a friend who recently moved to town. It’s not a complete index of everything that’s fun or cool in Ann Arbor, and it’s heavily oriented around our particular interests, but it’s a start.