The city Planning Commission is scheduled to consider a proposal by developer Peter Allen to construct a $10 million, six-story mixed-use project at the corner of West Kingsley and North Ashley at their November 18 meeting: ” … A total of 20 to 25 residential units would be constructed, including 10 to 15 townhouses adjacent […]
The Downtown Development Authority has hired an architect to design a 597-space parking structure to be located at the corner of South First and West William streets. Although I doubt the structure will be mixed-use, it seems somebody at the DDA has heard the new urbanist mantra: ” … The project is part of a […]
” … Employees of the store threatened to strike a number of years ago, but if the walk-out happens Saturday, it would be the first such strike against Borders at any location. Employees of only one other Borders store, in Minneapolis, have unionized. They rejected a contract proposal in October but have asked Borders to […]
On November 24, a federal law will take effect that will allow consumers to switch cell phone providers but keep the same telephone number, which will no doubt mean the end of the “new phone number” mass emails. The FCC is also considering allowing telephone number portability between land lines and cell phones, a decision […]
Borders Readers United has posted on their blog some photos and other information about the Borders’ Strike, which began today.
N.Y. Times Columnist Paul Krugman To Speak on Campus Economist, New York Times columnist, and frequent critic of the Bush administration Paul Krugman will be speaking on campus next Wednesday, at 8:00 PM in the School of Education’s Schorling Auditorium. Krugman was originally planning to come to Ann Arbor to attend book signings of his […]
“I’m impressed you got this many people to come out on a Friday. I’m not sure we would do as well at Harvard, in fact I’m sure we wouldn’t.” Said Harvard Professor Liz Cohen at her modestly-attended lecture today in Angell Hall Auditorium A for the Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development. I’ll […]