The New York Times writes about eco-terrorism, including a group known as the Earth Liberation Front, which is suspected in four fires at new home construction sites in Superior Township and Washtenaw County in the past year. “Although splinter groups and tiny, self-styled insurgencies abound, the radical fringe has come to be represented by two […]
The newly-opened Madras Masala, a South Indian restaurant that opened last June in a small storefront next door to Cafe Ambrosia on Maynard Street across from Nickel’s Arcade has been generating some buzz. After posting a brief link to the Ann Arbor News about it in May, my website has recieved dozens of hits from […]
Let the Partisan Bickering Begin Anti-War Action! has issued a blanket endorsement of the Students First Party for this week’s election, also available on their website. I’ll be compiling all the endorsement/election emails I receive from various people and organizations on that page in the order I receive them this week, like I did last […]
Student Government Elections are November 19th and 20th As you may know, the elections for student government at Michigan will be held this week, Wednesday 19 and 20th. The voting is conducted online throughout the 48-hour voting period through this website, which appears to be much-improved over previous years. The website now requires you to […]
I suppose it’s that time of the year. Yes, when the State Street Area Association (I assume) drags out the Christmas reindeer holiday lights to string across State Street and Liberty Street along with the lighted sign reading “Season’s Greetings.” (See photo1, slightly blurry photo2)I have a few criticisms, the first being aesthetic. The stylized […]
“Ann Arbor is really a suburb masquerading as a city.” Say two professors, Matthew D. Lassiter and Rick M. Hills, in a must-read “other voices” in the Ann Arbor News today titled “Time to Back up Greenbelt.” They chastize the city for bowing to the wishes of NIMBY neighborhood associations, suggesting three changes in the […]
I was sent a link by JJW to a New York Times story about an effort to construct 2,000 condos in downtown Newark, NJ in an effort to “revitalize” the city. Haven’t we learned this lesson before: purchasing and razing large areas of a city to construct new housing does little or nothing to help […]