Here’s the website of Dr. Philip Zazove, who is planning to run for the Michigan House seat for the 52nd District, which includes Ann Arbor, now filled by Republican Gene Derossett.
“If they want the University of Michigan to be South Dakota State, they need to tell us that. Then we’ll have a different discussion,” he said. … Univerity of Michigan Provost Paul Courant said the cuts are not small cuts. “A quarter of a billion dollars has been stripped out of the higher education budget […]
Two leaders in U-M’s College Democrats, Jenny Nathan and Paul Spurgeon, have created a blog, “Common Sense Liberals,” because they’re “sick and tired of the conventional notion that “liberalism” is somehow separate from pragmatic and realistic solutions that can make the United States a better place to live for all citizens.”
It looks like Dean’s lurch to the right has already begun. Maybe he’ll give a speech railing on nonexistent welfare mothers and praising our sacred right own guns soon, I’m looking forward to it! Maybe the new party will be called Dempublicans? Republicrats? ” … Taken together, it was a radical revision of Bush Abroad, […]
U-M Professor and Middle East expert Juan Cole has an interesting take on Sunday’s capture of Saddam. (Quoted in this Village Voice article.)
“Negotiations between Borders Group and the union representing hourly workers at its downtown Ann Arbor store were canceled Monday morning, the result of vandalism outside the store. According to Borders spokeswoman Anne Roman, negotiations have been postponed to late December because two members of the Borders negotiating team – the East Liberty Street store manager […]
Next March, Dr. Richard Florida (the author of the book that is popularizing “creative class” economic development theory) will be leading a “Regional Transformation Process” for the Detroit area. The corporation-heavy, top-down event seeks to create One Giant Master Plan, since that has worked so well for Detroit in the past. They’ve launched a website: […]