The Goodspeed Update

USE OF BREATHALYZER TEST ON PEDESTRIANS STRUCK DOWN
The ACLU of Michigan has won their lawsuit challenging Michigan’s MIP law. The police will no longer be able to force minors who are not driving a car to take a Breathalyzer test without a search warrent.
> ACLU-MI Press Release: Federal Court Strikes Down Breathalyzer Tests for Pedestrians […]

“About 46 percent of American adults attend church at least once a week, not counting weddings, funerals and christenings, compared with 14 percent of adults in Great Britain, 8 percent in France, 7 percent in Sweden and 4 percent in Japan.”
> UMPR: “U-M study: U.S. among the most religious nations in the world”

Psst, want a projector?
The LCD projectors continue to disappear:
“DPS and officials at Washtenaw Community College (WCC) are offering rewards for information leading to the recovery of recently stolen LCD projectors and the arrest of individuals responsible for the thefts. Ten projectors valued at $50,000 have been stolen from U-M buildings since April, while WCC has […]

The Daily put their coverage of yesterday’s fundraiser for the arrested FTAA protestors and release party for the second issue of MOMENT on the front page, online at least.
Also, the editorial page is full of letters praising the University for allowing students to rush the field Saturday. Apparently brutal repression didn’t go over so well […]

I’ve added a few books to my books page, including this book Murph posted about called “City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village“.

Somebody was paying attention when the greenbelt passed: developers are gobbling up land in Washtenaw County in what could be a “feeding frenzy” in the hundreds of millions of dollars:
“In the last three weeks, I’ve delivered about $70 million in letters of intent (to purchase), and we’re still in the preliminary stages,” said Gary Lillie […]

Susan Wineberg pens a very interesting op-ed submission to the Ann Arbor News, blaming Ann Arbor’s affordable housing crisis on the University. While I’m not sure that the University is entirely to blame, I think her point is well taken: the University has indeed destroyed much more housing than it has replaced in the last […]