I think my fellow cool cities task force member Eugene Chan is on to something: “Chan says what makes Ann Arbor’s college scene cool is the blending of ages. “It is actually integrated,” Chan said. “Look at any coffee shop. StarBucks on State Street. It is these students studying. You can see residents talking about […]
Lest Ann Arbor’s ruling class think they’ve got it figured out: “Cities across the state have lost large numbers of adults age 25-34 from 1990 to 2000. According to the census: – Lansing lost 12,067, or 54.7 percent from 1990 to 2000; – East Lansing lost 27.6 percent or 4,601; – Ypsilanti fared better, losing […]
The New York Times writes about urban farming in Detroit: ” […] Urban farmers face a number of challenges, from finding water (renegades tap into fire hydrants, Brother Samyn said) to eliminating broken glass, concrete and unsavory contaminants like lead from the soil. Hayfields, mistaken for “ghetto grass,” have been mowed down by the Department […]
The Friends of the U-M Library are sponsoring a book collecting contest, with prizes of 3, 2, and $100 for first, second, and third places in two divisions: one for graduate students, and one for undergrads. It’s a start, I suppose: Harvard’s contest has a $1,000 prize.
“The Midland-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy questions whether a state-government-led effort can produce cool cities. Michael LaFaive, the center’s director of fiscal policy, says cool developments, such as the SoHo area of New York, succeeded because they “flew below the radar screens of control-seeking bureaucrats, politically connected developers and local zoning bureaucracies.” LaFaive argues […]
Antiwar Action! and Moveon.org are sponsering a showing the documentary “Uncovered” about Bush’s invasion of Iraq at 7PM tomorrow (Sunday) in the Pendelton Room of the Michigan Union. Attendence is expected to be high, so come early to get a seat.
Granted, I haven’t read them all, and not that many people are participating, but the number of comments on my post about affirmative action has set a Goodspeed Update record, as far as I know.