Editorializing in the Headline? Not above the Ann Arbor News! Last time I checked, “clogged” was something of a subjective observation. Luckily they find some sober-minded people to interview in today’s story “U-M’s building boom starts to clog skyline”. […] “In 2000, developer Howard Frehsee proposed a one-story development on the site of the former […]
I’ve been asked to remind everyone Detroit historian Thomas Sugrue will be speaking this Thursday at 4 P.M. in Angell Hall Auditorium B!
Proud to be a Wolverine? This talk sounds interesting: “Charlene Teters, from the documentary “In Whose Honor?”, will be speaking on Friday October 17th, at 7:30 in the Wolverine room in the Michigan Union. Charlene Teters (Spokane), provoked by racial and social injustices endured by American Indians, has served as a lightning rod for change. […]
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Zoning an Empire As any good historian knows, the Romans were quite the city planners – with walls, markets, aqueducts, sewers, public baths and municipal buildings integrated into a planned scheme, a well-planned Roman city was a marvel of civic engineering. Nevertheless, I was struck by this passage I read recently in a history of […]
Airbeagle has posted the longest, most detailed account of Michael Moore’s visit to Ann Arbor yesterday I have found online. Complete with pictures! On a U-M political science student’s failure to name the prime minister of Canada:“The crowd, especially our visiting neighbors, roared with laughter (and, in the case of the Canadians, anger?) Quite frankly, […]
The Ann Arbor News’ coverage of the Michael Moore event is what we’ve come to expect – much better written than the Daily, but with the condescending view of some of their readership: the petty landed gentry that owns all the $1+ million houses in Ann Arbor and the buyers of homes in suburban subdivisions […]