Daniel Adams
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“Everyone has a little NIMBY in them. It doesn’t have to be the part that wins.” Views expressed are my own.
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Yesterday we premiered A RIPPLE IN ANN ARBOR, a 50-minute documentary about Ann Arbor's DNA Dragnet of the 90s, when hundreds of Black Men were profiled and accused of serial rape. It's now available to stream online at aadl.org/arippleinann... . Read on for thanks and acknowledgements!
A Ripple in Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor District Library
aadl.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Yesterday we premiered A RIPPLE IN ANN ARBOR, a 50-minute documentary about Ann Arbor's DNA Dragnet of the 90s, when hundreds of Black Men were profiled and accused of serial rape. It's now available to stream online at aadl.org/arippleinann... . Read on for thanks and acknowledgements!
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Tonight’s the night we move on from seven years of waste: wasted time, wasted resources, and wasted opportunities to meet community needs.
Let’s turn a parking lot that we don’t need into so many things that we do need. Vote yes on Props A and B.
#a2council
Let’s turn a parking lot that we don’t need into so many things that we do need. Vote yes on Props A and B.
#a2council
I just voted YES on Proposals A and B! Ann Arbor, I want to live in a community that prioritizes education, empowerment, and ingenuity. For zero new tax dollars, we can build a bigger, better library space for everyone. Join me in voting YES by 8 PM today! #A2Council
August 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Tonight’s the night we move on from seven years of waste: wasted time, wasted resources, and wasted opportunities to meet community needs.
Let’s turn a parking lot that we don’t need into so many things that we do need. Vote yes on Props A and B.
#a2council
Let’s turn a parking lot that we don’t need into so many things that we do need. Vote yes on Props A and B.
#a2council
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The Library Green Conservancy, a 501(c)3 organization, spent $59,000 advocating against Proposals A and B.
www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/excl...
👀 #A2Council
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Exclusive: Complaint filed against Ann Arbor's Library Green Conservancy for Michigan Campaign Finance Act violation
A screenshot of the complaint filed against the Library Green Conservancy Andrew Robbins, a researcher at U of M, has filed a complaint ...
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August 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The Library Green Conservancy, a 501(c)3 organization, spent $59,000 advocating against Proposals A and B.
www.damnarbor.com/2025/07/excl...
👀 #A2Council
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Library Green Conservancy’s president, lawyer, and treasurer are spending the final days of the campaign that it will decide its organization’s future by bickering with random people on Nextdoor.
#a2council
#a2council
Today's reminder that Library Green is an unserious organization run by unserious people. Prop A/B stand on their own merits, but anyone on the fence ought to shudder at the thought of giving LG another 5-10 years to cosplay fundraising and park planning. #a2council
July 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Library Green Conservancy’s president, lawyer, and treasurer are spending the final days of the campaign that it will decide its organization’s future by bickering with random people on Nextdoor.
#a2council
#a2council
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Today's reminder that Library Green is an unserious organization run by unserious people. Prop A/B stand on their own merits, but anyone on the fence ought to shudder at the thought of giving LG another 5-10 years to cosplay fundraising and park planning. #a2council
July 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today's reminder that Library Green is an unserious organization run by unserious people. Prop A/B stand on their own merits, but anyone on the fence ought to shudder at the thought of giving LG another 5-10 years to cosplay fundraising and park planning. #a2council
Cracking open the Vote No on Proposals A and B campaign finance reports. #a2council
July 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Cracking open the Vote No on Proposals A and B campaign finance reports. #a2council
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In 2018, we promised voters we would fund a park on the library lot without taxpayer dollars. Instead, we spent our 501c3's money on mailers opposing proposals that'd fund the park for free. Here's why it's everyone else's fault that the parking lot has remained desolate and uninviting. #a2council
July 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In 2018, we promised voters we would fund a park on the library lot without taxpayer dollars. Instead, we spent our 501c3's money on mailers opposing proposals that'd fund the park for free. Here's why it's everyone else's fault that the parking lot has remained desolate and uninviting. #a2council
#A2Council I just don't think it's a very compelling argument to say that even if there was a promise that the library lot park would be privately funded, voters aren't civically engaged enough to know that happened
July 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Just saw all the cool events that @aadl.org has scheduled (in addition to the Summer Game!) and compared that to what the Center of the City/Commons group has going on. Seems as if they can’t even keep a planter looking good. Vote yes on A & B, for crying out loud. This is embarassing. #A2Council
July 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Just saw all the cool events that @aadl.org has scheduled (in addition to the Summer Game!) and compared that to what the Center of the City/Commons group has going on. Seems as if they can’t even keep a planter looking good. Vote yes on A & B, for crying out loud. This is embarassing. #A2Council
The lawyer for Save Our Heritage Parking Lot has his conspiracy theory to respond to this piece already in the can: Anyone claiming to have soured on parking-lot preservation is a fake or a plant, unless parking-lot preservation bonafides are authenticated with contemporaneous evidence. #a2council
July 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The lawyer for Save Our Heritage Parking Lot has his conspiracy theory to respond to this piece already in the can: Anyone claiming to have soured on parking-lot preservation is a fake or a plant, unless parking-lot preservation bonafides are authenticated with contemporaneous evidence. #a2council
“No one with any authority to speak for the Library Green Conservancy or the Ballot Committee ever made such a promise.”
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
July 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“No one with any authority to speak for the Library Green Conservancy or the Ballot Committee ever made such a promise.”
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
Will Hathaway was LGC’s secretary, treasurer, and public spokesperson in 2018. This is the slide he presented to the public on who would pay for the park. #a2council
And if Mlive is going to finally ask some questions of Library Green, instead of just credulously reprinting the things they're making up to preserve their parking lot, I have some other suggestions.
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
July 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
And if Mlive is going to finally ask some questions of Library Green, instead of just credulously reprinting the things they're making up to preserve their parking lot, I have some other suggestions.
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
Like why they quietly booted Alan Haber off their board of directors around 2023ish. #a2council
When did LGC first deploy the City Wouldn't Sign Our MOU Chewbacca Defense?
Still searching, but here's a 2021 clip of at least two LGC board members begging the city administrator for money in the upcoming city budget while *never once* mentioning a MOU. #a2council
youtu.be/X9NoFYUcvxY?...
Still searching, but here's a 2021 clip of at least two LGC board members begging the city administrator for money in the upcoming city budget while *never once* mentioning a MOU. #a2council
youtu.be/X9NoFYUcvxY?...
July 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
When did LGC first deploy the City Wouldn't Sign Our MOU Chewbacca Defense?
Still searching, but here's a 2021 clip of at least two LGC board members begging the city administrator for money in the upcoming city budget while *never once* mentioning a MOU. #a2council
youtu.be/X9NoFYUcvxY?...
Still searching, but here's a 2021 clip of at least two LGC board members begging the city administrator for money in the upcoming city budget while *never once* mentioning a MOU. #a2council
youtu.be/X9NoFYUcvxY?...
Library Green, in 2018: "The City is not starved for tax revenue. . . . Ann Arbor’s economic survival doesn’t hinge on the projected revenue from any one development."
Ralph McKee, in 2025: "The city is not, in what we call, the best financial shape."
#a2council
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Ralph McKee, in 2025: "The city is not, in what we call, the best financial shape."
#a2council
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July 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Library Green, in 2018: "The City is not starved for tax revenue. . . . Ann Arbor’s economic survival doesn’t hinge on the projected revenue from any one development."
Ralph McKee, in 2025: "The city is not, in what we call, the best financial shape."
#a2council
youtu.be/I6fcKxUnadg?...
Ralph McKee, in 2025: "The city is not, in what we call, the best financial shape."
#a2council
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Mary Hathaway, LGC’s then president, in October 2018: “Nobody will be forced to do anything.”
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
July 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Mary Hathaway, LGC’s then president, in October 2018: “Nobody will be forced to do anything.”
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
Tom Wieder, lawyer for Vote No on A and B, yesterday: Prop A “direct[ed]” the city to spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars to build a parking deck park.
#a2council
A few takeaways here, 1 of them being: Library Green never cared that much about the park project, so much so that they drafted language they thought to be broad enough to permit AADL to take over the site.
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
July 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A few takeaways here, 1 of them being: Library Green never cared that much about the park project, so much so that they drafted language they thought to be broad enough to permit AADL to take over the site.
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
They are basically indifferent on what goes there, provided it isn’t housing. #a2council
The group of people currently whinging about “respecting the 2018 election” will file as many vexatious lawsuits as it takes to pause, block, and/or reverse the result of the upcoming August 2025 election. Out of their deep and abiding respect for the will of the people. #a2council
an out-of-town luxury condo owner is suing to stop the library from building something on an empty parking lot in her back yard? how surprising! #a2council
July 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The group of people currently whinging about “respecting the 2018 election” will file as many vexatious lawsuits as it takes to pause, block, and/or reverse the result of the upcoming August 2025 election. Out of their deep and abiding respect for the will of the people. #a2council
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Niche Ann Arbor post: These claims that voting yes on props A and B would amount to "selling park land" are such disingenuous nonsense. Having @aadl.org be able to use the surface of a parking lot (that is *not a park*) for a new library is a win-win.
July 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Niche Ann Arbor post: These claims that voting yes on props A and B would amount to "selling park land" are such disingenuous nonsense. Having @aadl.org be able to use the surface of a parking lot (that is *not a park*) for a new library is a win-win.
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Yes On Ann Arbor Props A And B
look man i just want it to be not a parking lot
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July 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Library Green recently published a "chronology" of its engagement with the city that *completely omits* 2019 through 2023. Remember that Will Hathaway, who is still on their board, promised voters a completed urban plaza on the Library Lot by 2024. Some omissions are also admissions. #a2council
July 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Library Green recently published a "chronology" of its engagement with the city that *completely omits* 2019 through 2023. Remember that Will Hathaway, who is still on their board, promised voters a completed urban plaza on the Library Lot by 2024. Some omissions are also admissions. #a2council
The rods in Library Green's reactor are made out of grievance, old grudges, and generalized bitterness at a changing community. They held onto their small pile of $ for years, only to enthusiastically deploy it to try to block a public library. Stopping things is all they know how to do. #a2council
#a2council are we sure that the “no on prop A and B” folks don’t just hate the library its patrons?
Took a walk around Eberwhite recently and tons of yards had signs for the summer games and yes on A and B, while the no on A and B yards often also had “pause the plan” signs
Took a walk around Eberwhite recently and tons of yards had signs for the summer games and yes on A and B, while the no on A and B yards often also had “pause the plan” signs
July 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The rods in Library Green's reactor are made out of grievance, old grudges, and generalized bitterness at a changing community. They held onto their small pile of $ for years, only to enthusiastically deploy it to try to block a public library. Stopping things is all they know how to do. #a2council
Library Green paid a large sum of money to send a notice to the entire city that its popular, multi-term mayor has “always” opposed their organization’s only project, and directly quote him torching that project for specific and sensible sounding reasons. #a2council
July 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Library Green paid a large sum of money to send a notice to the entire city that its popular, multi-term mayor has “always” opposed their organization’s only project, and directly quote him torching that project for specific and sensible sounding reasons. #a2council
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As the August 5th election nears, we've been getting a lot of questions from patrons who have heard or read false claims about Proposals A&B. So, we've put together this page with the false claims we've heard and the facts that refute them:
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!
Things you may have heard about the August 5th Vote | Ann Arbor District Library
aadl.org
July 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
As the August 5th election nears, we've been getting a lot of questions from patrons who have heard or read false claims about Proposals A&B. So, we've put together this page with the false claims we've heard and the facts that refute them:
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!
aadl.org/morefacts
Please share and tell your friends!