Articles of note: > AANews: “Apple handed to history professor”> And a sparkling gem of local journalism: “Midnight Madnes a Tree Town Tradition” And new blogs keep popping up all over the place, here’s a mysterious one that links to me: “The Last URL”
Jayson Blair, the young journalist whose unethical journalism caused a crisis at the New York Times last sprint has written a book scheduled to be published in March. Judging from the cover and title, it sounds interesting. The book’s title? “Burning Down My Master’s House: My Life at the New York Times”
Daily editorial page editor Zac Peskowitz writes the following article for the online magazine Slate: “A Winter Thaw – Can India and Pakistan compromise on Kashmir?”
It sounds as if Greg Cook’s song has changed, somewhat – wheras before he said the AATA would only have sold air rights over a proposed one-story bus station, he now thinks there might be “space avaliable” for affordable housing. Luckily, the city has purchased the property, so they can perserve the housing irrespective the […]
I recently spoke to a reporter from the Ann Arbor News for a story they are planning for next Sunday about the Ann Arbor Cool Cities Task Force. Our first meeting was this week, and I am excited – there seem to be some interesting and like-minded people on the task force. I am advocating […]
Residential College Professor Carl Cohen, a longtime ideological opponent of affirmative action at the University, has sent an email to the large “RC.Political” email list in support of the anti-affirmative action ballot initiative. Here’s an excerpt of his email, followed by my response: “You will have noted that the battle over race preferences in Michigan […]
The drive to put Ward Connerly’s anti-affirmative action initiative on the ballot will be opposed by an organization called “Citizens for a United Michigan,” which includes a broad array of participants – from big business to the AFL-CIO, the NAACP and religious organizations. Connerly’s organization, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, has a website designed by […]