Ann Arbor Police Chief Dan Oates recently used the emergency lights on a patrol car – to get to the airport to catch a flight.
A friend of mine who attends Carleton College has helped create an interest house themed after the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone. In an email to friends: “… I want to update you on a project I’ve been working on a lot this year. A group of 14 interested people and I proposed a new […]
My friend Sam Woll recently told me about a national controversy that seemed worth commenting on. In brief, here’s what happened: A white male columnist for the Oregon State University’s daily student newspaper The Barometer named David Williams wrote a column published April 9th titled “A message from a white male to the African American […]
“The University of Michigan will continue to define the great public university of the world” President Mary Sue Coleman proposed to create a new ethics center in an address to the Regents yesterday outlining her “vision and goals” for the university, connected to the kick-off of a new capital campaign. From her remarks: On a […]
Here’s the top ten from ClickbackAmerica.org, a fundraiser for the Movon.org voter fund: 1. University of California, Berkeley $19602. University of Washington $13063. University of Texas at Austin $12244. University of Wisconsin-Madison $12245. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities $11916. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor $11457. University of California, Los Angeles $10828. New York University $10369. San Francisco […]
FURNITURE COLLECTION!!THIS Saturday (April 24th) and next Sunday (May 2nd) Students in Action for Ann Arbor in Need will be collecting furniture to donate to Fairy Godparents and Community Self Sufficiency Center in Detroit. We are looking for any furniture, small appliances, laptop computers, (no clothes) in relatively good condition! Please drop the goods off […]
Articles of note: > AANews: “Michigan Festival begins with bunch of ‘good chatters’”> AANews In Brief: “U-M Naked Mile becomes non-event”> AANews: “Tweaks to Greenbelt law urged”> (Street closures) A Couple Thefts: “Ann Arbor 900 block of Greenwood Avenue, occurred from 10 p.m. Wednesday to 10 a.m. Thursday. A laptop computer valued at $2,000 taken […]