I just heard about this course being offered in the fall at U-M: Local Government: Opportunity for Activism PUBPOL 756 Instructor: Mayor John Hieftje Tuesdays/Thursdays 2:00 – 3:30 473 Lorch Hall What goes on in city government is in many ways more important to our lives than what happens in Washington. This course goes beyond […]
Ann Arbor Ward 2 Voters: Vote For Eugene Kang!
U-M undergrad and candidate for City Council in Ward 2 (contains the Hill Dorms and Northeast Ann Arbor) Eugene Kang’s primary election is today. If you are a registered Ward 2 voter, go vote for Eugene! > See Eugene’s official website > See results as they are reported Some campaign lit I had posted earlier […]
John Roberts: The Early Years
Oh yeah, John Roberts sounds totally harmless … … He wrote vigorous defenses, for example, of the administration’s version of a voting rights bill, opposed by Congress, that would have narrowed the reach of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He challenged arguments by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in favor of busing and affirmative […]
Old Content
MY HOSTING COMPANY, HOSTONCE.COM, HAS DELETED MY WEBSITE I do not have a recent backup, so I will be re-creating much of this content from various sources. For news about Washington, D.C. see DCist.com For news about Ann Arbor, MI see ArborUpdate.com In the meantime, here’s the content from the past year from Google’s Cache: […]
$200 Reward for Recovery Script
My hosting company, Hostonce.com, deleted the mysql database containing the content this blog contained for one year. When I found out this occurred, I saved from Google’s cache all the category index pages from the past year. Your challenge: write a script that will extract from these HTML pages my old posts, and help me […]
Public Briefing on MCRI in Detroit
One United Michigan is hosting an event this Tuesday: Don’t be Fooled! Michigan is coming together to support affirmative action. Who: One United Michigan What: Public Briefing on defeating the California Anti-Affirmative Action Amendment When: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 , 5:00 p.m. Where: AFSCME Auditorium, 600 W. Lafayette, Detroit, Michigan The Constitional Amendment backed by […]
The ‘Borf Effect’
When I was talking to this reporter about the arrest of the graffiti artist “Borfâ€? she asked if DCist had seen a “spikeâ€? of traffic. After getting off the phone I checked the numbers and saw that we did indeed see a high level of traffic on Thursday (when the Post ran their expose on […]