It’s budget cuts season! Last time, that meant the closing of the Residential Hall libraries (remember those?), the closing of the woodshop, the elimination of the Major Events Office, among many other cuts. Something tells me this round might be similar in its scope and impact on students. Here’s an idea: why doesn’t Mary Sue […]
From the Ann Arbor News’ police beat: “Prowler reported at 2 Ann Arbor homes Two women in the same neighborhood noticed a man peering into their windows early Monday, Ann Arbor Police reported. A 28-year-old woman said she was working at her computer at 8 a.m. in her home in the 800 block of East […]
“Cool Cities” Update Today, the Daily writes a story about the Michigan Cool Cities survey website that Governor Granholm will be emailing every college student about tomorrow. Here in Ann Arbor, the mayor’s Cool Cities Task Force is planning to print postcards soliciting advice about how to improve Ann Arbor to distribute around town, and […]
” … Without assistance from the state GOP and financial support from corporate donors, the MCRI will have to pander to the worst aspects of white conservatism and elitism if it wants to get its proposal on the ballot. Connerly could very well have his way; he could get enough signatures and win the question […]
“Blog it Forward” The idea is simple: pick one blog you read and briefly recommend them. That person then does the same. Started, apparently, by this person: “The rules are really simple. For those of you who are new to this, all you have to do is pick someone from your blogroll and post (on […]
A Village Voice feature argues the Bush administration has given up on its stated goals of establishing a functing capitalist economy and democratic government and decided instead to withdraw in time for next November’s election: “The American occupation would end July 1, 2004, and there wouldn’t be any constitution, just a bare-bones, nonspecific “basic law.” […]
The developer recruited by the city to re-open the majestic downtown Detroit Book-Cadillac Hotel has pulled out of the project, although “Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said he was confident the city would have a deal with another developer by next week.” I fear the project won’t happen: the city will spend millions conducting “interior demolition” and […]