Construction on the State Street area sidewalks will enter the final phase tomorrow when work resumes for the summer. The Ann Arbor police cars are switching from blue to white. Finally, Granholm tells MSU grads not to fear failure.
Former Daily reporter, N.Y. Times and Associated Press writer, and recent U-M grad Dave Enders is currently in Iraq traveling, and considering starting an english-language newspaper in Baghdad. Read his weblog here for more information.
Ann Arbor Township is considering re-zoning a parcel of land just south of Ann Arbor to accomodate new sprawl: “Township Trustee and Planning Commission member John Allison disagreed with several of those contentions.”It is clearly not consistent with the Master Plan,” Allison said. He said the land also falls outside the township’s utilities district and […]
The Michigan Tech students sued by the RIAA for setting up an on-campus MP3-swapping network have settled: each will be paying between $12,000 and $17,000 in fines to the record labels and promise not to download illegal music, although the students did not admit any wrongdoing. It’s not clear with this might mean for U-M […]
A friend of Jessica Smith, the U-M student who died last weekend, dedicated part of her blog to Smith.
The Ann Arbor News ran a story about the ‘U’ budget cuts today. Here’s the list of cuts by Department. The story doesn’t include anything about the cuts to various multicultural offices that I have heard of. The Daily story “New office created to addrerss affirmative action in workplace” is about this – cutting costs […]
If you win too much at Detroit’s Greektown casino, it seems you may just get banned. Also, read Doctor and U-M Professor Tim Johnson’s letter to the Michigian Senate Judiciary Committee about the ban of some abortions protected under Roe the Senate passed today. Excerpt:“Such an extreme, broad ban blatantly disregards women’s health and lives. […]