The Downtown Development Authority has hired an architect to design a 597-space parking structure to be located at the corner of South First and West William streets. Although I doubt the structure will be mixed-use, it seems somebody at the DDA has heard the new urbanist mantra: ” … The project is part of a […]
” … Employees of the store threatened to strike a number of years ago, but if the walk-out happens Saturday, it would be the first such strike against Borders at any location. Employees of only one other Borders store, in Minneapolis, have unionized. They rejected a contract proposal in October but have asked Borders to […]
On November 24, a federal law will take effect that will allow consumers to switch cell phone providers but keep the same telephone number, which will no doubt mean the end of the “new phone number” mass emails. The FCC is also considering allowing telephone number portability between land lines and cell phones, a decision […]
Borders Readers United has posted on their blog some photos and other information about the Borders’ Strike, which began today.
N.Y. Times Columnist Paul Krugman To Speak on Campus Economist, New York Times columnist, and frequent critic of the Bush administration Paul Krugman will be speaking on campus next Wednesday, at 8:00 PM in the School of Education’s Schorling Auditorium. Krugman was originally planning to come to Ann Arbor to attend book signings of his […]
“I’m impressed you got this many people to come out on a Friday. I’m not sure we would do as well at Harvard, in fact I’m sure we wouldn’t.” Said Harvard Professor Liz Cohen at her modestly-attended lecture today in Angell Hall Auditorium A for the Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development. I’ll […]
UNIVERSITY PARTY OPPOSES BORDERS’ WORKERS RESOLUTION With the MSA election approaching, it’s time to start thinking about student government politics, something I relish. As I can feel some of the more reactionary elements of my readership reacting against my headline, I’ll start by pointing out that neither Students First or the University Party have a […]