Spotted today on a telephone pole on Williams – flyers reading “Boycott the Dell.” Also, I discovered yesterday that Bella Napoli, the pizza restaurant next to In and Out Party Store has closed. Hill Auditorium will reopen January 8. See the renovation website here. (See the U Record story)
A friend of mine who works for the Kerry campaign has sent me a link to a story in the New York Post about Gen. Wesley Clark’s support for the notorious terrorist training camp run by the U.S. Army called the “School of the Americas,” called “School of Hard Knocks for Wes”: “WASHINGTON – In […]
Lest you think Ann Arbor is some sort of liberal paradise, here’s yet another cold splash of reality: the Ann Arbor Public School’s policy of providing same-sex partner benefits is being challenged by 17 residents as a violation of Michigan’s “defense of marriage act.” Richard Florida might point out that if Michigan wants to try […]
” … The threads are awesome, but it’s the weave—of the epic and the intimate, the airy and the visceral, the lofty and the blood-curdling—that’s spellbinding. This is the best of the three Rings movies—more than that, it makes the others look even better. …” That from Slate’s glowing review of the latest Lord of […]
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.”