ann arbor is overrated.

The recent A2 scandal involving a county prosecutor who stole a quarter from a phone booth widens. Ann Arbor News columnist Judy McGovern reports that Brian Mackie, the principal figure in what she dubs “Quartergate”, is “literally, if not clinically, compulsive about scooping up all the lost change in his path.”

More local business clarification. trampslikeus writes:

For accuracy’s sake: Potbelly replaced Discount Records (Harmony House [which was a regional independent before it went under last year] was replaced by that gallery for the art school). Discount was a fairly useless and crappy record store but did once employ Iggy Pop, a distinction its fratty successor will likely never claim.