Student Government Elections are November 19th and 20th As you may know, the elections for student government at Michigan will be held this week, Wednesday 19 and 20th. The voting is conducted online throughout the 48-hour voting period through this website, which appears to be much-improved over previous years. The website now requires you to […]
I suppose it’s that time of the year. Yes, when the State Street Area Association (I assume) drags out the Christmas reindeer holiday lights to string across State Street and Liberty Street along with the lighted sign reading “Season’s Greetings.” (See photo1, slightly blurry photo2)I have a few criticisms, the first being aesthetic. The stylized […]
“Ann Arbor is really a suburb masquerading as a city.” Say two professors, Matthew D. Lassiter and Rick M. Hills, in a must-read “other voices” in the Ann Arbor News today titled “Time to Back up Greenbelt.” They chastize the city for bowing to the wishes of NIMBY neighborhood associations, suggesting three changes in the […]
I was sent a link by JJW to a New York Times story about an effort to construct 2,000 condos in downtown Newark, NJ in an effort to “revitalize” the city. Haven’t we learned this lesson before: purchasing and razing large areas of a city to construct new housing does little or nothing to help […]
Here’s Ted Rall on the Unbearableness of Being Tom Friedman: “The Tao of Tom: Live it. Be it. Cash in on it.”
The city council is ready to approve a new traffic light on Plymouth Road where two U-M students were struck and killed one week ago after leaving prayers at the Ann Arbor Islamic Center, although city council member Mike Reid is saying he needs “more information”. I’m not sure what sort of problems Mr. Reid […]
Apparently Urban Planning graduate students are a feisty bunch. According to Murph, after University Party member and MSA’s Architecture and Urban Planning representative Tristan deBarros sent an email to all the urban planning students asking them to email all the student government representatives in support of a resolution that would seek to install a Taco […]