U-M Professor and Middle East expert Juan Cole has an interesting take on Sunday’s capture of Saddam. (Quoted in this Village Voice article.)
“Negotiations between Borders Group and the union representing hourly workers at its downtown Ann Arbor store were canceled Monday morning, the result of vandalism outside the store. According to Borders spokeswoman Anne Roman, negotiations have been postponed to late December because two members of the Borders negotiating team – the East Liberty Street store manager […]
Next March, Dr. Richard Florida (the author of the book that is popularizing “creative class” economic development theory) will be leading a “Regional Transformation Process” for the Detroit area. The corporation-heavy, top-down event seeks to create One Giant Master Plan, since that has worked so well for Detroit in the past. They’ve launched a website: […]
Payroll information will be moving to the University’s M-Pathways / Wolverine Access system: “In a change that impacts all faculty and staff, the Payroll Interactive Voice Response phone line, (734) 764-8253, will be replaced with Web-delivered pay information called View Paycheck. “Payroll information was the only service remaining on the phone system, and we can […]
City Council has struck down the infamous pet ordinance.
This just in: “SOLE Response to Borders Vandalism, Cancelled Negotiations Ann Arbor, MI – December 15, 2003 The membership of SOLE was disheartened at the news of this morning’s vandalism at the downtown Ann Arbor Borders Books & Music store on Liberty St. SOLE would like to express its disappointment with the tactics used by […]
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