The Ann Arbor city government is holding a series of public meetings as part of their process to write a “non-motorized transportation plan”: “The City of Ann Arbor Planning and Public Services Departments will host two public workshops for the City of Ann Arbor’s Comprehensive Non-motorized Transportation Plan. The meetings will be held: * Wednesday, […]
In case you were wondering: it was Joan and Sanford Weill who gave $5 million to the University’s Ford School of Public Policy to help fund construction of that school’s new building. This site has received lots of hits from people searching for that precise information over the past two days: why the sudden interest?
Yes, Detroit’s abandoned Michigan Central Depot will become the city’s police headquarters. Luckily, Jack Lessenberry is around to remind us exactly how much the whole thing stinks. You know, I can’t think of a better way to reinforce the plutocratic police state than by building a towering police headquarters to dominate the skyline, with a […]
The dean of the Rackham Graduate School, popular U-M administrator and history professor Earl Lewis, has accepted a position as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Emory University. For their part, Emory seems pretty excited that Lewis will be coming to Atlanta. “… Lewis said Tuesday night that he is thrilled about his […]
Here’s some anonymous historical commentary on Michigamua I received: “Now a few years removed from Ann Arbor and from the 2000 Michigamua tower occupation, I look back and have to laugh at the state of Michigamua. Sure, the multi-week occupation gave the organization and the University a black eye, but even more so, exposed what […]
This event, sponsored by the U-M College Republicans, sounds interesting: “*******************************A Forum on the USA Patriot Act *An Infringement on Civil Liberties?*Is it Really Helping Us Fight the War on Terror? ***Thursday, March 11, 2004, 8:00 pm, Vandenberg Room, The Michigan League*** Speakers: *Barbara McQuade, Assistant US Attorney, US Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan […]
Larry Kestenbaum seems to think that online voting in Michigan in the recent democratic primary was an abysmal failure.