The University of Michigan Hospital was given the green light by the U-M Regents to begin improvements that will total $260 million at their meeting last month. The projects include a new cardiovascular center, expanded laboratories, more operating rooms and procedure rooms, more hospital beds, and hiring more surgeons. > See “U-M hospitals’ $260M campaign […]
“Akerlof: “… As of March 2003, the CBO estimated that the surplus for the next decade would approximately reach one trillion dollars. But this projection assumes, among other questionable things, that spending until 2013 is going to be constant in real dollar terms. That has never been the case. And with the current tax cuts, […]
The reading room at the Bentley Historical library will be closed for the month of August for construction of a new addition. See official website here.
“Surely, such a threat should be met with intelligence gathering of the highest quality — not by putting the question to individuals betting onan Internet website. …Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant,” they added. > From a letter written by Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Ron […]
Think you know what will happen in the Middle East? The chances Yasser Arafat will be assassinated? How long Saudia Arabia’s monarchy will last? Put your money where your mouth is. Thanks to the Defense Department, you might soon be able to do just that in the Policy Analysis Market: “Pentagon’s futures market plan condemned” […]
A friend recently sent me a link to this story on Salon.com about the Transportation Security Administration’s “No-fly” and “strict security” lists with either prohibit certain people from flying, or single them out for searches or detentions: “Grounding the flying nun” “Evidence compiled in a series of interviews suggests that activists on the left and […]
Haddad’s family has been deported:> AANews 6/27: “Family’s deportation closes one chapter”> DetNews: “Supporters rally as Haddad’s wife, children deported”> Freep: “Wife, children of Ann Arbor activist also deported” Also, this on the RIAA’s crackdown on teens for file-swapping, something most musical artists encourage: “The RIAA subpoena claims the Ann Arbor user violated copyright laws […]