Upon the request of summer Michigan Daily editorial page editor Donn Fresard, I adapted my recent blog post on the status of student power in Ann Arbor into a viewpoint for the Daily. In it, I point to the Ann Arbor blogosphere, new student and renter-oriented neighborhood organizations, and Eugene’s candidacy as three conditions which […]
2004-2005 University of Michigan Employee Salaries
The Michigan Daily has posted the spreadsheet. Kudos to them, signs of intellegent life at 420 Maynard are popping up left and right. Of course, its after I posted the same data for previous years. Update, 2/7/06 The UM library has posted the data for each year from 2002-2006 as a spreadsheet on this website. […]
Craigslist for Everybody!
My friend Ed Vielmetti tipped me off that Craigslist has expanded to a whole slew of new cities, including Ann Arbor and a bunch of others like Fresno, Wichita and even the entire state of West Virginia. Thoughts? I am still waiting for Portland, Maine. Update: Maybe I missed it last night, but there’s now […]
A2 News on Student for Council
I found this photo of Eugene Kang, a 21-year old U-M senior running for City Council, on his facebook profile. Kang was profiled in this week’s Michigan Daily. Readers of my blog will find some of these themes very familiar: “The only people who can live Ann Arbor are the extremely wealthy. Those in the […]
Friday
That smoke could become illegal soon. Glenn took this photo. —–
Get a Job
I always like to try to help my friends and acquaintances find work. However, I inevitably forget who is looking, or forget to send along job opportunities I hear about. Thus, I’ve decided to create an email group for people I know who are interested in getting emails from me about work opportunities to centralize […]
Work With Me at PFAW!
My work just circulated this job posting: Online Campaign Organizer/Writer Strategic Planning Department People For the American Way is an organization with 750,000 members and activists devoted to promoting civil and equal rights, civil liberties, public education, an independent judiciary, and civic participation. The Strategic Planning Department houses all of the organization’s web-related work. The […]