The Goodspeed Update

Who is Howard Dean?
“In the Vermont political spectrum, he was a moderate or a centrist,” said Eric L. Davis, a professor of political science at Middlebury College in Vermont. “In the spectrum of Vermont, he was not someone who was a strong supporter of left or progressive causes.”
Not having read much about Howard Dean, I […]

Another U-M Blogger Mike Roth has posted a response to the RIAA’s tactics of attacking individual MP3 file traders, announcing he’s going to resume buying CD’s but do everything he can to keep the record labels from making any money from him.
All good stuff, until I get to the part where he bashes the United […]

The University of Michigan Hospital was given the green light by the U-M Regents to begin improvements that will total $260 million at their meeting last month. The projects include a new cardiovascular center, expanded laboratories, more operating rooms and procedure rooms, more hospital beds, and hiring more surgeons.
> See “U-M hospitals’ $260M campaign aims […]

“Akerlof: “… As of March 2003, the CBO estimated that the surplus for the next decade would approximately reach one trillion dollars. But this projection assumes, among other questionable things, that spending until 2013 is going to be constant in real dollar terms. That has never been the case. And with the current tax cuts, […]

The reading room at the Bentley Historical library will be closed for the month of August for construction of a new addition. See official website here.

“Surely, such a threat should be met with intelligence gathering of the highest quality — not by putting the question to individuals betting onan Internet website. …Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant,” they added.
> From a letter written by Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Ron Wyden […]

Think you know what will happen in the Middle East? The chances Yasser Arafat will be assassinated? How long Saudia Arabia’s monarchy will last? Put your money where your mouth is. Thanks to the Defense Department, you might soon be able to do just that in the Policy Analysis Market: “Pentagon’s futures market plan condemned”
While […]