EDITORIAL: The Art of Compromise
IN 2007 A FORMER Ward 3 Council member emailed his Council colleagues “talking points” for a meeting to be scheduled with Mayor John Hieftje. Hieftje had threatened to veto the police-courts building and Leigh Greden suggested to fellow…
URBAN EXILE: College Kids—The Hungriest of All Americans
By Christina Bravo
COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE terrible eaters. Those four years aren’t known as the time for juice cleanse experiments, after all. But perhaps we can’t blame their recent struggle with malnutrition on one too many bowls of mac…
U.S. Corporations Bring Home Biggest Slice of Economic Pie Since 1929
IT’S A DANDY time for corporate America: While employee compensation dropped to its lowest level in 65 years in 2013, corporate profits reached an 85-year high. The Commerce Department reported last week that corporations earned $2.1…
Pollution Top Concern for U.S. and Canadian Citizens Around Great Lakes
WITH EARTH DAY approaching, a new Great Lakes survey by U.S. and Canadian researchers represents one of the largest attempts in recent decades to assess public views on a wide range of issues in the Great Lakes basin.
The survey of more…
Gov. Appoints to New Michigan Recycling Council Owner of Company That Over-Estimated Ann Arbor Single-Stream Collections By 40 Percent Costing $10.4M
GOV. RICK SNYDER recently announced a statewide plan designed to increase residential recycling access statewide. He also announced appointments to a nine-member Michigan Recycling Council to guide the plan’s implementation.
Jim Frey, of…
U-M Student Task Force Report: “University failed to meet ‘recommended 60-day period of time’ between sexual misconduct complaints and school investigations”
Student Task Force alleges football coach Brady Hoke “knowingly issued false statements in December 2013 concerning the status of Gibbons.”
ACCORDING TO A report released on Monday April 14 by the U-M Central Student Government,…
If You Want Increased Creativity and Better Sleep, Meditate on This
by Geroge Dvorsky
MEDITATION YIELDS A surprising number of health benefits, including stress reduction, improved attention, better memory, and even increased creativity and feelings of compassion. But how can something as simple as…
OP-ED: Hey Vegans, Don’t Be Jerks—It Helps No One to Judge Their Food Choices
by Jill Richardson
REALLY, I’M NOT judging you. But I often find it necessary to establish myself as “not a threat” to meat eaters. I also occasionally bump up against militant vegans.
Consider this collision I had the other day…
THE FOODIST: The Food Movement Celebrates Four Decades of Success
NOWADAYS, IT’S DIFFICULT to imagine a thriving environmental movement absent a revolution in the way we grow, sell, and eat food. Similarly, where would the food movement be without Frances Moore Lappé?
Lappé’s debut book, Diet for a…
What’s Worrying Michigan’s Millennials? Pretty Much Everything
by Fran Kritz
Rachel Evans of Wheaton, Maryland, can tell you precisely when she reached her peak stress level recently: A customer at the pizza shop where Evans works was frustrated at the long line and took it out on her. Then,…
