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Eric * - 2004-09-30 09:51:38 That's a good idea, Eric *. I like it. That would be an interesting regular feature and would serve the community. I'd read it. But in the meantime, our beloved Courier is collapsing....* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 10:36:56 The Dexter Leader (a Heritage Newspaper) routinely attends every trustee meeting and asks questions. Covering city government should be the number one priority of any newspaper. I'm sure even Onyx knew that.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 10:42:40 I agree with you completely. Covering city government is a vital public service to readers who don't have the time to sit through a droning meeting (next city council meeting is Oct. 5, Tuesday). The city does put its meeting notes on its website, but it takes at least a month for them to do so. Good info on the Dexter Leader. My objection with Heritage is the rough way they treated the staff. That's not necessary, and it's not nice. They're having payroll problems, too, according to my source--last round of checks from Heritage hasn't come & is late.* * * * * * * * * * * * Larry Kestenbaum - 2004-09-30 11:04:17 Yikes! This is terrible news.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 11:06:34 I should say so. I'm glad someone else thinks so about this community institution.* * * * * * * * * * * * tom - 2004-09-30 11:21:46 Not being an Ypsi resident, I've never read the Courier (or even heard of it), but maybe these former staffers can launch an online paper ("online paper" being a contradiction in terms, but I can't think of a better term for it).* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 11:26:00 From all I've heard, tom, it's hard to make a living from an online paper. * * * * * * * * * * * * tom - 2004-09-30 11:35:15 I've heard the same, but making a living from a dead-tree paper is getting harder all the time. I have heard of economically viable web-based community papers, although I can't think of any off the top of my head. I'll try to dig up some time to find examples.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 11:46:50 The Courier hasn't had an editorial since the last week of August. Can you be a communtiy institution if you've only been around for a couple of years?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 11:53:23 The Courier was founded November 10, 1994. A decade ago. That's just a tad more than "a couple of years." And yeah. They were a community institution. Next question.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 12:04:21 The Dexter Leader began publishing in 1869. That's an institution.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 12:05:31 Except that it has a circulation of 5. Other than that, it's an institution.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 12:46:57 For a newspaper with a circulation of five, I'm very impressed have a reporter at village meetings. Shouldn't that make a newspaper with a circulation of 7K feel rather embarrassed that it can't muster one reporter for such community events? Now that Ypsi has another celebrity cat (Jazz), between him and Onyx, you'd think they pull off at least one column a week.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 12:48:29 Feel free to add your own verbs and pronouns to complete those sentences.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 12:50:18 Well, I wasn't going to say anything, but...(rolls eyes). Anyways, who's Jazz? The name of the cat who lives in Bicycles in Town is "Ypsi." She's a little shy.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 13:07:39 Shouldn't a local newspaper be responsible for informing the community about its celebrity cats?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 13:17:00 And reporting on city council meetings. A newspaper consisting of those two items would fill the bill for me. Oh, and I want to read Kathleen Conat's and Pat Grimes's and James Mann's columns, too. That would do it. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 13:42:22 Well, Eric * is choosing to be coy, so I need someone else to fill me in on who Jazz is. That's the burning question for today.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 13:54:50 You need to do some more local shopping. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 13:57:22 [mutters something unintelligible] Gosh dangit, Eric *, spit it out already! Tell me who Jazz is! * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura, guessing wildly - 2004-09-30 14:00:56 There's a cat at Mantis Garden Center but I think his name is...Thomas, if I remember right. About 100 years old. * * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-09-30 15:36:57 Thomas is about 15. He used to live at Riverside Garden Center on Forest across from the Farm Bureau silos. How lucky Ypsi is instead of garden and feed supplies to have yet another clutter of old cars. I despise old cars that aren't used or parked on blocks.* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-09-30 15:39:17 ...and the Courier was founded by staff from the Ypsi Press when it folded and the Ann Arbor News bullied ownership of the Ypsi Press name.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 15:40:55 I never see a soul in that museum, and would sure rather like to have a garden/feed store. How did Thomas voyage from a Frog Island area garden store to one out on Michigan Ave., one wonders...owner transferred to a job out there?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 15:44:16 Oops, you beat me to comments. Yes; regarding the paper, one wonders if it will pull through with the key people pulling out--I don't know. Seems doubtful.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-09-30 15:52:10 RM Classic Cars isn't a museum. It's a business. They restore cars and sell them.* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-09-30 15:52:32 Thomas was a kitten at Riverside. Betty & company who own Mantis owned Riverside. We used to buy chicken, goat, dog, and cat feed there. And tools and hardware. Then got better deals on feed in Willis. Now go to Dexter for freshness and quality. Though we don't use goat feed anymore because of cannibal contents.* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-09-30 15:57:42 Restored old cars used for ornament and parade are museumal. Maybe they'll take my old IH out of the weeds and restore it. I hauled hay and other stuff in it until a few years ago. Then just used it in the yard. It's time for it to go away, although it's a nice touch of old Ypsi Twp.* * * * * * * * * * * * tom - 2004-09-30 15:58:51 Cannibal contents?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-09-30 16:13:39 Eric: Didn't know that, thanks. Raymond: Call me strange, but when I read, "Thomas was a kitten at Riverside" I heard in my mind, "I..had a farm...in Africa." :)* * * * * * * * * * * * raymond - 2004-09-30 18:35:31 Cannibal contents: Much animal feed contains the remains of other dead animals. It's thought that so-called Mad Cow Disease is spread by doing that.* * * * * * * * * * * * Leighton - 2004-10-01 10:36:53 I was just thinking that the Courier at least "looked" professional to match its niceness. Damn loss. People who restore car just to show them and not to drive them are called TRAILER QUEENS and disgust my daily driver Fiero.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-01 10:39:05 Yes, the addition of color in the photos was nice. Well, it's not gone yet, but it doesn't look good to me. The Fiero pictured on your site, Leighton, is a really sharp-looking and no-nonsense car.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |