Welcome to #eastannarbor
Place is the space
I’ve lived in East Ann Arbor since July 2007 when my wife and I got a loan for a house on Oakwood St in order to cap the amount of dollars we spent on housing every month. Heidi works for the Ann Arbor District Library where she is also co-president of the Staff Associates Union. I work as a medical case manager.
This newsletter will mostly be a weblog of community outreach efforts I am engaging in beginning in Jan 2022. Those activities include: Washtenaw County Participatory Budgeting (with a Racial Equity lens), reparations for ADOS/F, unarmed crisis response, and support for three city council candidates, Ayesha Ghazi Edwin (W3), Cynthia Harrison (W1) and Dharma Akmon (W4).
When sharing the results of outreach, I will not specify which activity I was engaged in, nor the geographic areas covered. I am *never* speaking on behalf of nor representing any individual, organization for whom we work, nor formal organizations with whom I am collaborating.
I’ll also occasionally write longer form essays/ “op-ed”s and include pieces about some #eastannarbor history.
It’s worth noting here that East Ann Arbor was an incorporated city from September 1947 to November 1956 when it was annexed to the city by a ballot vote of each municipality’s registered voter residents. The area East Ann Arbor covered was centered on the Packard/ Platt intersection and spanned from Nordman to Burton Rd and where US 23 now slices above and across.
I look forward to our conversations and hope this can be a space for productive, good faith discussion and dialog, to the extent that is even possible in our heavily socially mediated multiverse.
Eventually I hope to have this site linked to http://www.eastannarbor.com, Twitter, Facebook and other social media.
What will the weekly weblog posts look like?
Something like this:
Between Two Fernwoods: Campaign Season ep. 1
It was a great Saturday for knocking some doors and talking with neighbors. I saw some old friends and met some new folks. I did not use a list of registered voters, just knocked and talked. I was surprised how many people I never met before listened to what I had to say and signed! This outing was a warmup for what’s to come this year. I should have a report like this once or twice per week. #eastannarbor
PUBLIC DATA FOR PUBLIC PEOPLE #eastannarbor