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Here’s a couple break-ins: “Woman reports stolen items An Ann Arbor homeowner reported that someone entered her house while she slept Wednesday night and stole several items, police reports said. The victim said she awoke at about 10 a.m. Thursday at her home in the 500 block of South Fourth Avenue to find her laptop, […]

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Presidential stuff: > Carol Moseley Braun has dropped out of the race and endorsed Howard Dean> U.S. Rep. Caroyln Cheeks Kilpatrick has endorsed Howard Dean> Michael Moore has endorsed Wesley Clark Also, think those movon.org ads were a bit over the line? Luckily, there’s enough inappropriate Nazi references to go around.

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T.J. has given me permisison to post this bit he wrote to the Peace and Justice commission. It’s interesting history, but I’m not sure nuclear energy will become a major energy source in the future. Then again, former president Duderstadt was very involved in the U.S.’s nuclear rocket program, and if that’s what Bush is […]

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President Bush wants to establish a permanent moon colony, and perhaps send people to Mars. I wonder if the colony will recycle their waste, and be designed according to sound new urbanist principals? Does this new rocket he is talking about mean re-starting the U.S.’s nuclear rocket program? Will the economic development of the moon […]

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The new director of housing will be one of these people: “The Director of Housing-Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Search Advisory Committee is pleased to announce that four candidate finalists have been invited to on-campus interviews and will be making public presentations January 26-January 29, 2004, from 2:00-3:00pm in the Michigan Union. The schedule […]

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U-M planning student and fellow blogger Murph was pleasantly surprised by what he found at a local Washtenaw County Planning meeting targeting professionals: there appears to be a professional consensus that well-built, vibrant urban neighborhoods are desired in the area: ” … The third major theme, and here’s where it gets interesting, was advocacy. In […]

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U-M Law alumni David Boyle has written a ballot initiative which would prohibit the use of alumni preferences in the state’s public educational institutions – if he can get the over 300,000 signatures needed to put it on the ballot. T.J. Wharry, a frequent commenter on this website, has asked that I link to a […]

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