I’ve added a few books to my books page, including this book Murph posted about called “City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village“.
Somebody was paying attention when the greenbelt passed: developers are gobbling up land in Washtenaw County in what could be a “feeding frenzy” in the hundreds of millions of dollars: “In the last three weeks, I’ve delivered about $70 million in letters of intent (to purchase), and we’re still in the preliminary stages,” said Gary […]
Susan Wineberg pens a very interesting op-ed submission to the Ann Arbor News, blaming Ann Arbor’s affordable housing crisis on the University. While I’m not sure that the University is entirely to blame, I think her point is well taken: the University has indeed destroyed much more housing than it has replaced in the last […]
Two Ohio State fans were taken to the U-M hospital after being assaulted outside the Brown Jug on South University 1 AM Sunday morning. Welcome to Ann Arbor, home of the Leaders and the Best(TM)! Also, a busy weekend for theft. I wonder where all these hot laptops end up? “800 block of East University […]
A 21-year-old Ann Arbor woman came home from the bar, took a shower, and passed out in the bedroom. The only problem? The resident of the Tappan St. apartment was quite suprised – she was in the wrong apartment.
Thank God for California They’re going to require all voting precincts equip electronic voting machines with a printer to produce a written record of the votes. Too bad the rule doesn’t take effect until 2006.
Attention Honors Freshman My Winter 2004 course “Student Activism and Social Change at the University of Michigan” now has a website. The course is open to first year honors students only.