Democrats in the Michigan State Senate are trying to prohibit redlining, the practice where insurance companies set rates based only on address. The description of last week’s Comerica Bank robber has changed somewhat, according to this story: “He is described as an Asian male, 40 to 45 years old, with a stocky build and white […]
The Daily covers the closing of Decker Drugs in their article this week: “Drugstore closes due to high rent, competition“, documenting the latest victim of the slow continued gentrification of the State Street Area as high-volume restaurants and fast food chains replace locally-owned and independent businesses. I don’t think it’s quite time to despair: Cafe […]
In a blog post today, Dumi Lewis writes about a hate e-mail recieved by the Students of Color of Rackham, and reports the Ginsburg center’s affirmative action banner was stolen in the middle of the night.
From today’s University Record: > 51 people at the Institute for Social Research lost their jobs, victims of a contraction in federal research spending.> The Record’s LEO headline:“Lecturers vote in favor of employee organization” I suppose ‘union’ was too strong a word.>The Regents approved a schematic design for a new engineering and computer science building.> […]
‘Tis the season for blogging. The latest local blog to come online is U-M sociology graduate student Andrew Vanalstyne’s “Ravings of a Graduate Student” about “Politics, Baseball, etc.” You may know him from Mustaches for Peace.
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.