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Ann Arbor

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Sep 2010 – Mar 2025

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New IDs resulted in many “new” posts in Ann Arbor FOIA RSS feed

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, …

Letter to Ann Arbor City Council regarding the failed Y Lot vote

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, …

Ann Arbor iPhone X Wallpaper

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/ …

Dashcam & Crash Report from March 2017 AAPD Diag Crash

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 …

What Ali Ramlawi Gets Wrong About Development and Quality of Life

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 …

ALPRs in Ann Arbor

A brief overview of Ann Arbor’s current use of ALPRs.

Radio in Ann Arbor: Scanning KARB

Notes on listening for Ann Arbor Airport radio traffic.

A brief index of many neat Ann Arbor things

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.

ArborWX

Introducing a new hyperlocal weather blog for Ann Arbor: ArborWX.

The UGLi

A brief investigation into the origin of the nickname “UGLi” for the University of Michigan’s Shapiro Undergraduate Library.

Michigan Asst. AG Shirvell appeared at protest in May to defame Armstrong

Photos of Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell harassing University of Michigan Student Assembly president Chris Armstrong at a May 2010 protest.