DC resident, professional reporter, and my friend Mike Grass has started a blog about DC called “The Oculus: Observations of the Nation’s Capital and Its Culture.” A U-M grad, in Ann Arbor Grass was a news reporter, editor, and editorial page editor at the Michigan Daily. Grass has a deep knowledge of DC, I’m excited […]
While I’m sure you’ll hear plenty from me about today’s cool cities conference, here’s some media: > Michigan Radio discusses Ypsilanti and “cool cities” (via Steve) I also heard that there was an NPR piece with Richard Florida and Governor Granholm that “talked about Ann Arbor a lot,” I haven’t located it anywhere on the […]
In addition to Peter Allen’s Broadway Village project, there seems to be a lot of interesting activity in the area just across the river from Kerrytown. After attending a community meeting, Brandon posts the following: “The most interesting thing I learned is actually in the works already. Mr. Jim Moran, who told me he was […]
I’ll be spending today at the “Creating Cool” conference held as part of the Governor’s statewide cool cities initiative. The keynote speaker will be Richard Florida, who is behind this whole fixation with “coolness.” I’m sure the conference will be a bunch of urban hipsters mixing with state politicians telling them to get liberal and […]
According to a letter to the editor that has been written to the Daily, student volunteers with the U-M Dance Marathon organization have been gift-wrapping merchandise at a local store as part of their efforts to raise money for pediatric rehabilitation programs. One problem: that store is Borders, whose employees have been on strike since […]
Yes, those LCD projectors keep vanishing from the classrooms of local colleges and universities – at the rate of 25 since last March. Although none of the local media reports the total stolen since they first began to be installed in the 1990s, I wouldn’t be suprised if the total losses were rather high, hence […]
This is in addiiton to the U-Club’s annual holiday buffet, this year running from December 17-19. “Need Brain Food? or Just a Break? FINALS SURVIVAL BREAKFAST (all you can eat!) Sunday, Dec. 14 10pm-1amMichigan Union’s U-ClubSpecial guest servers..can you guess who they will be?Contests, giveaways and more! Eggs, pancakes, hashbrowns and more!only $3.00 per person […]