Is the donut growth model already here in Detroit?
The Ann Arbor News files a lengthy story today on the ongoing Borders strike: “Stakes high for Borders, strikers as talks resume” “… The first two weeks of the strike, sales at Shaman Drum Bookshop, around the corner from Borders’ East Liberty Street store, increased 50 percent. Owner Karl Pohrt sells both popular and scholarly […]
Here’s a juicy conspiracy theory for you: the late Senator Paul Wellstone was assassinated.
A Detroit businessman has been selected by President Bush to serve on a six-member group charged with raising over $350 million for a National Museum of African American History and Culture to be built on the mall in Washington D.C. as part of the Smithsonian Institution: ” … The museum will offer Americans that total […]
From the Ann Arbor News police beat: “Scuffle with robber leaves man injured A 21-year-old man suffered a broken jaw and other injuries after he refused to give money to a robber during an attack in downtown Ann Arbor Wednesday night, city police reported. The Hartland Township resident said he parked on Washington Street and […]
United Students Against Sweatshops has started an e-mail campaign in support of the striking Border’s workers.
“Take off your riot gear, there ain’t no riot here.” What really happened in Miami last week? Aside from the brutal repression of protesters with over $8 million in taxpayer dollars, what happened inside the meeting was more important: FTAA, as envisioned by the Bush administration, failed. “… And yet, despite the Bush brothers’ best […]