Comments on: Council’s Public Art Committee Begins Work

By: Sabra Briere

Sabra Briere — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:34:50 +0000

Re: #7

Dear Steve,

Opt-in surveys are never random samples.

I use the results for information, not for predicting the future. I think of it as asking hundreds of people for their opinions.

By: Steve Bean

Steve Bean — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:23:27 +0000

Sabra, if it’s not a random sample, what good are the results?

By: Sabra Briere

Sabra Briere — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:36:07 +0000

Re: #4:

Dear Mr. Jefferson,

I don’t have a record that you ever requested to be on my mailing list – and I try not to fill up folks’ email with unwanted communications.
I don’t investigate the folks who’ve asked to be on the list, and I don’t solicit anyone to join the list. But if you want to see the newsletter, you can find it on my website (sabrabriere.org). If you like what you see, you can ask to join.
I’m confident – having read the responses to various surveys in the past – that the folks on my email list don’t all agree with me on anything. (See message #5 for one of the folks on my list.)

By: Roger Kuhlman

Roger Kuhlman — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:33:06 +0000

It is just flat out wrong to force all Ann Arbor taxpayers to pay for public art purchases through taxation. Why is it that left-wing Democrats always seem to be in favor of coerced funding from everyone in the city to benefit a few privileged special interests groups and city politicians who want expensive art festooning their government building so that they can feel more self-important and good about themselves?

By: James Jefferson

James Jefferson — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:46:47 +0000

Ummm… what survey, Sabra? After contacting you by email, phone, and even in person I have yet to receive a newsletter, survey, or any other correspondence that was not in direct reply to a question. If you always survey the same handful of people that agree with you, I bet you will get the results you need every time. Thanks Chronicle what would we do without you? It IS like being there, but better.

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:28:03 +0000

Re (2) Christopher Taylor was unopposed in the recent primary and election. I don't recall his ever being challenged. Margie Teall trounced Jack Eaton in the primary by 18 votes. Here is the Chronicle's excellent coverage of results in the primary. [link]

By: Observatory

Observatory — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:58:02 +0000

Not making this up: I would have sworn we’d already replaced both Teall and Taylor. They’re still HERE?

By: Alan Goldsmith

Alan Goldsmith — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:34:59 +0000

“Teall and Taylor both noted that even though the millage failed, more than 20,000 people voted in favor of it.”

Brilliant logic.