The Ann Arbor News continues their greenbelt coverage today: > “Would greenbelt be a draw or a deterrent?”> “Candidates nearly split on greenbelt issue”
The Michigan Student Assembly is once again providing cheap transportation to the Detroit Metro airport for Thanksgiving. MSA Airbus is offering ten trips on November 25 and 26 to the airport, and frequent return trips on Sunday, November 30. Tickets, available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office, are $8 for one-way and $13 round-trip with […]
Have you heard anything about electronic voting? No, I don’t mean a scantron machine that verifies your paper ballot before you leave the voting precinct (Used in Ann Arbor and just about everywhere else rich people live) – I mean a machine that records your vote electronically, keeps no record, and registered negative 16,022 votes […]
Honors Director Prof. Stephen Darwall posts on his blog theletter to the Daily he wrote in response to my viewpoint where I criticize the Perlman Honors Commons as injust and elitist. I’ve already responded to the letter, in which he argues the honors commons is the same as a residential hall library. Here was part […]
A number of student organizations are sponsoring a forum on the Greenbelt proposal and affordable housing in Ann Arbor to be held Thursday, October 30 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM in the Michigan Union ballroom. The event will be moderated by Prof. Matt Lassiter, and the panelists include: – John Hieftje, Mayor of Ann Arbor– […]
My friend Ben gets feisty in a letter to the Ann Arbor city council … “Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:11:02 -0400 From: bcking@umich.edu Subject: Proposal re: non-resident emergency billing To: JHieftje@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, JLowenstein@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, MReid@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, HHerrell@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, JCarlberg@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, MHiggins@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, wwoods@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, MTeall@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, CEasthope@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, RJohnson@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us, KGroome@ci.ann-arbor.mi.us Dear Ann Arbor City council, I am writing because I am concerned about […]
The Ann Arbor News clearly knows what emotion sells the most newspapers: Fear. In a headline today they arouse uncertainty over the greenbelt proposal, repeating an allegation made by the pro-sprawl lobby, asking “Is the greenbelt plan legal?” It turns out the plan is legal, as long as the city and the surrounding townships change […]