The Goodspeed Update

I
feel like I’ve been really testing the adage “it’s better late than
never� on this blog lately. Anyway, I was recently reminded of a group
that I vaguely knew about that did a lot of great work during the 2004
election - the Student Voting Rights Campaign.
With Eugene Kang running in Ann Arbor I’ve been thinking about voting
rights […]

The University of Michigan recently unveiled a master plan for the University’s rapidly growing medical campus, which is explained in an article in today’s University Record.
I am glad to see the university inching towards the realization that
the medical campus that currently exists is a positively hostile place
for pedestrians esthetically, visually, and literally. Walking around
the medical […]

The Ann Arbor News reports that Joe Wagner, a 21-year-old Ann Arbor man who was an organizer for BAM-N in Detroit has been killed. The details surrounding the killing are unclear. (Via)

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I finally got around to reading the Post’s review of Richard Florida’s most recent book, Flight of the Creative Class, which came out in April. The reviewer makes it sound like a warmed-over version of his Rise of the Creative Class
which I thought was thought-provoking, if not the most rigorous social
science research, saying she found […]

I just finished Kevin Boyle’s excellent book Arc of Justice. Up next: James and Grace Lee Boggs’ Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century

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The WaPo on some notable members of the House and Senate. Look up how much the pols are worth on Opensecrets.

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Eugene Kang
is a native Ann Arbor resident who is running for Ann Arbor’s City
Council from Ward 2. He is a 21-year-old University of Michigan senior.
If elected, he would be the first undergraduate on the City Council in
many years. He is running against a former Republican mayoral candidate
Stephen Rapundalo in an August 2 Democratic primary.
Ward 2 […]