Talk About Town has a
Talk About Town has a feature called “By the Numbers,” which is supposed to be a sort of Harper’s Index for A2. But unlike Harper’s Index, whose numbers are meant to create surprising contrasts with each other, By the Numbers usually contains only one number, and that number is just what you’d expect. Recent installments have explored the number of Ann Arbor City Council members who didn’t approve of a meeting scheduling change (1) and the percentage by which the number of recyclable containers in landfills has increased (40).
This week’s number is 15 - the “Extra minutes required for Ann Arbor’s newly wired City Council members to get set up before a recent council meeting. Equipped with new laptops, the elected folks needed a bit a help from city hall techies before they could begin they [sic] business.” Could there be a more expected number of minutes that it would take to set up a group of laptops?