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Patchwork Nation: Media Landscape Shifts Online in a Wired Town | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 8, 2009 | PBS

Posted Wed, 12/09/2009 - 22:20 by paulbhartzog
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/media/july-dec09/annarbornews_12-08....

If there is a community well positioned for the demise of a true local daily, it may be the heavily wired, tech-savvy college town of Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Fair Food Network receives $40k Dept of Agriculture grant

Posted Fri, 12/04/2009 - 13:45 by Richard Adler
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http://www.detnews.com/article/20091203/BIZ/912030365/1001/USDA-grant-to...

"It's about connecting small and midsize farms in southeast Michigan with a growing demand and strong need for healthy, fresh, locally grown food in urban areas," said Oran Hesterman, president of the Fair Food Network, which has offices in Detroit and Ann Arbor.

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A2 Parking Python Script

Posted Sun, 05/10/2009 - 05:21 by Sam Rose
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http://monkey.org/~phy/a2parking/a2parking.py

import os, sys, re
import wsgiref.handlers
 
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
 
BASE_URL = "http://a2parking.appspot.com/"
PARKING_API_URL = \
    "http://www.a2dda.org/parking__transportation/available_parking_spots/"
 
PARKING_LOCATIONS_RE = re.compile(">[\s\w\.:]+</td>[\r\n\s]*<td>[\s\w\.]+<",
    re.MULTILINE)
 
def xml_response(handler, page, templatevalues=None):
    """
    Renders an XML response using a provided template page and values
    """

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Databrowse

Posted Sat, 04/04/2009 - 22:57 by Sam Rose
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http://xca2.com/stuff/aata/browse/

Hello; this is an automatically generated browsing thing that you can use to examine some data supplied by the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority to Ed Vielmetti in compliance with his recent FOIA request (data here).

I took the flat files Ed got, converted them back into a database, and wired this together in an non-billable afternoon. Please enjoy. Most of the stops have a street and/or a cross street; these came from parsing the descriptions and therefore that data is in pretty sorry shape.

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