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: […]
Payroll information will be moving to the University’s M-Pathways / Wolverine Access system: “In a change that impacts all faculty and staff, the Payroll Interactive Voice Response phone line, (734) 764-8253, will be replaced with Web-delivered pay information called View Paycheck. “Payroll information was the only service remaining on the phone system, and we can […]
City Council has struck down the infamous pet ordinance.