By Ann Arbor AF
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The podcast currently has 78 episodes available.
Jess and Molly come out of hiatus to share our recommendations for local non-partisan races and ballot initiatives.
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Our list of recommendations (Reminder: These are only the contested races):
JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
8 Year Term
Kimberly Ann Thomas
JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT
Incumbent Position
Kyra Harris Bolden
JUDGE OF CIRCUIT COURT
22ND CIRCUIT COURT
Jinan Hamood
JUDGE OF DISTRICT COURT
15TH DISTRICT COURT
S. Kerene Moore
LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER
ANN ARBOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Megan Kanous
Don Wilkerson
Leslie Wilkins
COUNTY PROPOSALS
Renewal and restoration of the Enhanced Emergency Communications System Millage
Yes
Renewal and restoration of the Veteran’s Relief Millage
Yes
Establishing an Older Persons Services Millage
Yes
Renewal and restoration of the Washtenaw County Community Mental Health and Public Safety Preservation Millage
Yes
A2 CITY PROPOSALS
Ann Arbor City Charter Amendment Creation of a Sustainable Energy Utility
Yes
Ann Arbor City Charter Amendment Authorizing Tax for Park Maintenance and Capital Improvements
Yes
Ann Arbor City Charter Amendment Non-Partisan Elections
No
Ann Arbor City Charter Amendment Fair Elections Fund
No
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Washtenaw Intermediate School District Special Education Millage Renewal Proposal
Yes
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Registration for Jess' panel: History to Present Day: Race and Housing in Ann Arbor
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Today we talk to Yodit Mesfin Johnson about the problematic promises of community “engagement,” and what it could look like to pivot more towards community-driven planning. Yodit is presently co-leading (with Jess and developer partners Avalon Housing and the Ann Arbor Housing Commission) a community-driven planning effort for the mixed-use affordable housing project at Fourth and Catherine, a historically Black business and residential area in downtown Ann Arbor.
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We continue our Civic Therapy miniseries talking to Ann Arbor Public Schools parent Liz Lin about WTF Schools: amygdala parenting, Zoom kindergarten, why she almost ran for school board, and why she didn’t.
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Our Civic Therapy miniseries continues with Reverend Donnell Wyche about WTF Transportation. We embrace our collective Big Feelings about kids being able to bike to school, e-bikes as a vector of radicalization, the just-proposed Driving Equality Ordinance, and the cost of not taking Vision Zero literally.
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In a continuation of our new miniseries, Civic Therapy, we are talking with Dan Adams about WTF, Library Lot.
Dan is a corporate attorney, local housing activist, and long-time bike person. He has lived in Ann Arbor since 2008 and grew up down the road in Dexter. In November 2022 he published a long piece in Damn Arbor about the current status of the Library Lot, how we got to this place, and what we should do to get out of it. He’s here today to talk about that piece and about the Library Lot, Prop A, and all the big mad feelings.
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A proposed development with robust sustainability and affordability components, considered by many in our community to be a slam dunk for approval, hit a surprising road block this week. Join Jess and Molly for our first Civic Therapy session with Lisa Sauvé and Scott Trudeau: what happened to SouthTown, and why what happened points to some larger problems.
And hey, wanna check out HouseParty? Here's how you can.
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(And y'all, yes, we did mark this explicit twice...there are a few more swears than usual in this conversation.)
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We’re back! Ann Arbor AF is…the same but different. Molly and Jess catch you up on the haps and where the pod will be going this summer.
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Today we are talking with Ben Connor Barrie about yet another blue-language civic engagement media project: Damn Arbor! We cover a lot of ground, including why it's important to say nice things about where you live.
Come check out our episodes and transcripts at our website, annarboraf.com. Keep the conversation going with fellow Ann Arbor AFers on Twitter and Facebook. And hey, if you wanted to ko-fi us a few dollars to help us with hosting, we wouldn't say no.
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Today we are talking with Jerome Horne about radically abundant transit. We also took deep detours into being vulnerable, what our kid selves would think of us today, and navigating advocacy as and with humans.
Links we mentioned:
Come check out our episodes and transcripts at our website, annarboraf.com. Keep the conversation going with fellow Ann Arbor AFers on Twitter and Facebook. And hey, if you wanted to ko-fi us a few dollars to help us with hosting, we wouldn't say no.
Support the show
Come check out our episodes and transcripts at our website, annarboraf.com. Keep the conversation going with fellow Ann Arbor AFers on Twitter and Facebook. And hey, if you wanted to ko-fi us a few dollars to help us with hosting, we wouldn't say no.
The podcast currently has 78 episodes available.