Michigan Consumer Confidence at Highest Level Since 2005
by Diane Swinbrow
CONSUMER OPTIMISM rose in the January 2015 survey to its highest level in the past decade, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
Conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research since 1946,…
Whether or Not You Have a Horse in the 2016 GOP Presidential Race, It Promises Excitement
by Brent McDermott
IN JUST UNDER a year, caucus goers in Iowa will head to churches, fire halls and gymnasiums to kick off the 2016 primary cycle. Right on cue, the Des Moines Register released poll numbers Thursday, the first crystal…
Aussie Researchers May Have Cure for Peanut Allergy
by Jeff Grabmeier
A TEAM OF Australian researchers may have made progress in finding the cure to peanut allergies. Around 15 million children in the United States are allergic to food — meaning about two allergic kids are in every…
MathCounts Invigorates Math Learning for Area Middle Schoolers
by Donna Iadipaolo
MATHCOUNTS IS A popular extra-curricular activity for mathematically-inclined, or numerically curious, middle school students. Students from Clague, Slauson, Tappan, Emerson, Forsythe, Saline Middle Schools, and other…
EDITORIAL: Aura Rosser’s Life and Death
AURA ROSSER WAS mentally ill, perhaps with Bipolar disorder, according to statements made by her relatives and evidence presented in a 12-page memo released by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie. The night she was tasered by one…
OP-ED: We Should All Know About Torture
by Brianne Recker
THE SENATE Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture that was released this past December presented extremely disturbing mental images of torture techniques to those who read the report. Included were accounts of…
U-M Partners to Make 25,000 Early First Edition English Books Available to Public
The University of Michigan Library, the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and ProQuest have made public more than 25,000 manually transcribed texts from the first 200 years of the printed book (1473–1700).
by Sydney Hawkins…
A2Politico: Crowdfunding— for Lunch at Zing*****’s
by Bryan Kelly
I HAPPENED INTO a sandwich shop the other day whose name shall be withheld from the record (though it shall not be spared the indignity of being guessed correctly).
It charged some uncompromising prices! These were no…
OP-ED: Filling the Housing Gaps in By Any Means Necessary
ON DEC. 1, 2014, preceded by Steve Carnes and prompted by Camp Serenity’s Gordon Smith, Caleb Poirier announced the homeless community’s intent to recall Stephen Kunselman from his Ward 3 City Council seat. Yes, it caught me off-guard, too.…
Leslie Science Center Events for Adults: Owl Prowl and the Nature of Beer
THE LESLIE SCIENCE and Nature Center has a wide variety of activities for adults planned for the month of February. Contact the LSC for more information:
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Owl Do I Love Thee?
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM…