Yesterday’s “Michigan Difference” fundraising launch for an elite group of big donors was disrupted by protestors from the organization Our Voices Count, who have opposed the changes made to the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center which stripped that organization of it’s office space, and crippled its ability to serve survivors of sexual assault. Here’s […]
Well, well, well: “The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of […]
There’s an email circulating among some people at the University of Michigan which begins with the following: “IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.” One problem: one-day […]
The University announced a $2.5 billion dollar fundraising goal for their “Michigan Difference” campaign at an event today at Rackham Auditorium. Here are details via Crain’s Detroit Business: “The University of Michigan has set a goal to raise $2.5 billion in the campuswide campaign it made public today. To date, the university has raised $1.09 […]
Think Ann Arbor seems like a pretty clean place to live? Think again. A plume of 1,4 dioxane, an industrial chemical classified as a “probable human carcinogen” by the EPA has already forced the City of Ann Arbor to close one well formerly used for drinking water as it slowly moves to the northeast, in […]
This excerpt is from a CNN.com story about the death of Nicholas Berg, a civilian murdered by an Iraqi group ostensibly in retaliation for the photos of American abuse of Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib prison: ” … In an interview with Boston radio station WBUR on Tuesday, Berg’s father, Michael, said: “I still hold […]
The filing deadline for Republic and Democratic candidates for the November elections was yesterday, although Independents for city elections have until July 15, and minor party candidates have until August 3rd. Half of the city council is running for re-election, all but one (1st ward Democrat Kim Groome will face Eric Sturgis in a democratic […]