MY HOSTING COMPANY, HOSTONCE.COM, HAS DELETED MY WEBSITE I do not have a recent backup, so I will be re-creating much of this content from various sources. For news about Washington, D.C. see DCist.com For news about Ann Arbor, MI see ArborUpdate.com In the meantime, here’s the content from the past year from Google’s Cache: […]
$200 Reward for Recovery Script
My hosting company, Hostonce.com, deleted the mysql database containing the content this blog contained for one year. When I found out this occurred, I saved from Google’s cache all the category index pages from the past year. Your challenge: write a script that will extract from these HTML pages my old posts, and help me […]
Public Briefing on MCRI in Detroit
One United Michigan is hosting an event this Tuesday: Don’t be Fooled! Michigan is coming together to support affirmative action. Who: One United Michigan What: Public Briefing on defeating the California Anti-Affirmative Action Amendment When: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 , 5:00 p.m. Where: AFSCME Auditorium, 600 W. Lafayette, Detroit, Michigan The Constitional Amendment backed by […]
The ‘Borf Effect’
When I was talking to this reporter about the arrest of the graffiti artist “Borfâ€? she asked if DCist had seen a “spikeâ€? of traffic. After getting off the phone I checked the numbers and saw that we did indeed see a high level of traffic on Thursday (when the Post ran their expose on […]
YP4 Summer Online Course Announced
I’m facilitating this course for my “workâ€? (in quotes, because I can’t believe I get paid to do this). I am lining up an awesome linup of guests from People For the American Way, American Constitution Society, ACLU, Earthjustice, Planned Parenthood, and more for this one – go register. (See the announcement online.) THE BATTLE […]
Iraq War Protest Announced
The anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice has announced a massive “mobilizationâ€? to Washington, D.C. this September. I thought the last paragraph from their call was interesting: From every corner of this country, people will travel to Washington to bring our demands directly to the policymakers responsible for this unjust war. These three days […]
Help Town Hall Open in Glover Park
Town Hall, a new restaurant to open in Glover Park, needs the ANC 3B to approve a “Stipulated Licenseâ€? to allow them to serve alcohol until 2 a.m. on weekdays and 3 a.m. on weekends. The city gave them the liquor license from the restaurant formerly in the space, but they need the ANC’s blessing […]