The Gentrification of Ann Arbor The Starbucks at the corner of Liberty and Main Streets opened last week, bringing the total in Ann Arbor to nine stores, three located in the downtown area. The location is the former site of an Amer’s Deli and (briefly) a poorly managed Our Town Deli. When the new Starbucks […]
People interested in independent and community news and media might be interested in the Allied Media Conference, which will be held at Bowling Green University this June. The conference is a project of Clamor Magazine. Here’s more information: “If you believe communities should control their media… If you believe everyone should have the tools to […]
“Somewhere between the morel mushroom bisque and the glazed salmon, the big white tent began leaking. At first, University of Michigan officials, who had invited 900 of their most generous donors to the elegant lunch Friday, quietly sopped up the mess. The weather wasn’t going to rain on the launch of U-M’s $2.5-billion fund-raising campaign. […]
Here’s a story I’m late reporting on. The president of Michigan State University, M. Peter McPherson, announced his retirement on May 7th during MSU’s graduation. McPherson has been controversial for his connections to conservative politicians, surveillance of activist student organizations by campus police, and his role in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. > Lansing City […]
Yesterday’s “Michigan Difference” fundraising launch for an elite group of big donors was disrupted by protestors from the organization Our Voices Count, who have opposed the changes made to the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center which stripped that organization of it’s office space, and crippled its ability to serve survivors of sexual assault. Here’s […]
Well, well, well: “The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of […]
There’s an email circulating among some people at the University of Michigan which begins with the following: “IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.” One problem: one-day […]