“All three candidates are focusing attention on Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), a method of counting votes that ensures that the winner must have a majority of the votes, and which allows people to rank their choices, enabling voters to vote their conscience while eliminating runoff votes and ending the spoiler issue (see www.fairvote.org for more […]
I just sent a questionnaire to the candidates for city council. The deadline for responses is Wednesday at 8:00 PM, and I’ll post them here sometime Wednesday night. Here are the questions: 1.In your view, what are the most important issues facing the city? 2.What is your position on the mayor’s Greenbelt proposal? 3.Do you […]
The Ann Arbor News gives the impression that supporters of the Greenbelt proposal are rolling in cash, although they do note many paragraphs into the story that “The reports indicate that thus far, the greenbelt opponents have vastly outspent supporters, with the majority for cable television ads.” If one group raises more than their opponents […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has arrested 245 suspected illegal immigrants in 21 states employed as cleaners at Walmart in something the federal government is calling “Operation Rollback.” The Associated Press has reported that investigators have found evidence Walmart knowingly employed the illegal immigrants. What I found interesting was the list of countries where […]
“Bruce Madej chuckles at the suggestion that his “publicity machine” at the University of Michigan won the Heisman Trophy for Charles Woodson in 1997. “Heisman budget,” said Madej, Michigan’s sports information director. “What budget? We didn’t spend anything.” Nor did his department have to. The Heisman formula was working for Woodson. “The player with the […]
“A strike continues to be imminent,” says UFCW Local 876, the union which represents the employees of Ann Arbor’s downtown Borders. The union announced today on their blog that Borders Inc. has agreed to settle charges of unfair labor practices filed under the National Labor Relations Board. According to the union, the charges include: “- […]
Members of the Michigan Student Assembly and the Residence Hall Association clashed yesterday about revising the access guidelines to the Residence Halls, so that anyone with an M-Card could access the dorms between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. Lest we forget: until February 2002, the Residence Halls were open to anybody 8-5. Brimming under the […]