Ann Arbor

This is great to see! We need more green energy all over, and rooftop solar is one of the easiest places to do it.

Gift link to avoid the paywall, but also: archive.today

I think this is a net positive, but I really wish this had more housing and less surface parking. I'd love to see the city start requiring that new developments have most of their parking underground.

I have to say, Socotra is my favourite coffee shop in A2, and yet the Daily doesn't even mention it.

This is great! The site, despite being right near downtown, has been blighted and basically abandoned for over a decade.

Personally I think this is a great thing! I've been carrying narcan kits in my car and on my bike for years now. Fortunately I've never had a need to use one, but that also means I now have an expired narcan kit I need to discard.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/12955233

Dr Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian died June 3, 2011 in Royal Oak, MI at the age of 83.

From the AP article…

> On a video recorded by Kevorkian in 1993, Poenisch steadies Frederick’s Lou Gehrig’s disease-ravaged body as she signs a form requesting help to die “in the most humane, rapid and painless manner” possible. Then, [Carol] Poenisch reads words just penned by her mother [Kevorkian patient, Merian Frederick] that convey her final, fervent, wish: “My tears should not be taken as an indication that I am in doubt.”

> The videotaped interview, clinically labeled “Medicide: File 8,” is one of many in a new archive at Kevorkian’s alma mater, The University of Michigan. It’s been digitized and included in one of nine boxes stored in the stacks of the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor — available for the first time as legislation supporting physician-assisted deaths makes gains in the U.S.

> Kevorkian, a graduate of Michigan’s Medical School, died in 2011 in suburban Detroit at 83. He sparked the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end about 130 ailing people’s lives, using the term “medicide” to describe physician-assisted suicide. Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder in 1999 for assisting in the 1998 death of a Michigan man with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was released from prison in 2007.

> While rooted in the past, the archive has been unveiled at a time when the movement gains ground. In October, California became the fifth state — following Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Montana — where physician-assisted deaths are legal, and that’s made proponents of right-to-die legislation optimistic about possible successes elsewhere. Other bills are pending.

> Where does the outspoken, unapologetic and now archived Kevorkian fit in the current debate? Some see him and his efforts at the center. Others, like Poenisch, praise his trailblazing but believe his approach — wearing costumes and plugging his ears in court, once talking to reporters with his head and wrists restrained in a medieval-style stock — was detrimental to him and the cause.

> Others say the outlandishness was necessary. Mayer Morganroth, Kevorkian’s attorney and friend, said people who have said he had the right message but was the wrong messenger are missing the point. […] “The only way to get out there was to be out there himself, go over the top.” *** What We Want Now !detroit@midwest.social ☆ !michigan@midwest.social ☆ !music@midwest.social

Archive link: https://archive.ph/gWxhx

@MegaMichelle@a2mi.social does a wrap-up blog post for most city council meetings - here's her latest, about last week's council meeting.

More housing for people rather than cars!

The Ride pointing out what's well known in the industry but still seems to be beyond some.

ANN ARBOR, MI - Michigan traveling to Los Angeles to play a football game was seen as an oddity in 1902, said Greg Kinney, the athletics archivist at the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library.

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Despite a brief closure, Crazy Wisdom Bookstore has returned to downtown Ann Arbor.

Johnny's Speakeasy, Ann Arbor's secret, underground speakeasy hidden in plain sight. Built in the 1870s, converted into a speakeasy in the 1920s.

East Lansing-based Fuel'd expands to Ann Arbor, Police Chief candidates, Mochinut opens in Ann Arbor, and Great Lake goldfish

Ann Arbor's Midnight Madness, KindleFest, and Moonlight Madness return this Friday night.

Milk and Froth to open at old Prickly Pear location (328 S Main St.), 17-story building proposed, hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters, and October's state housing market

Ann Arbor Crime Map, Ann Arbor's new downtown toilets, Grand Rapid's newly proposed soccer stadium, and Ohio legalizes marijuana.

Madras Masala reopening, Saline's superintendent bus driver, Fresh Forage to close, and a state health insurance marketplace

StoneFruit Social to open in AA, proposed 500-unit mobile home park, helicopter laser pointer, and Sanders Bumpy Cake shortage

Tuesday, October 24: 47th Ann Arbor Folk Festival, NCAA investigation, U of M data breach, mandatory filtered water, and AI in politics

Redeveloping Sears, new Taco Bell, new bridge, new coffee shop, and a new university president house

A component in my 30 year old Gaggenau oven died and they discontinued the part. Does anyone know of someone in the area who is skilled enough and willing to fabricate the part?

see https://midwest.social/comment/3437155

Monday, September 11: Competition to design new city flag, friend speed dating, ranking local high schools, MSU coach suspended, and a Michigander on Survivor

The Ann Arbor Juggling festival is a longstanding tradition that was interrupted by COVID. But now it's starting to come back!

This year's iteration is a Juggling Arts and Flow Festival that will take place in Taylor this Saturday September 23. Open juggling starts at 10:30 am, show is at 7pm.

For more information, see:

https://annarborjuggling.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/124002494054658/

Older people are less likely to be diagnosed but more likely to experience certain kinds of illnesses, research suggests.

Ask Patricia Anderson how she is doing, and you probably will not get a routine answer. “Today, I’m working and I’m fine,” she said on a recent Tuesday. “Saturday and Sunday, I was bedridden. Long Covid is a roller coaster.”

Before the pandemic, Ms. Anderson practiced martial arts and did without a car, instead walking and taking buses around Ann Arbor, Mich., where she is a medical librarian. Just before contracting Covid-19 in March 2020, she had racked up — oh, she keeps track — 11,409 steps in one day.

Tuesday, September 5: Two Dunkin's planned for A2, U of M's internet outage, tax incentives for Michigan films, a foliage tracker, and local wells running dry

Looks like a Slim Chickens has been proposed west Ann Arbor off Zeeb and Jackson. I believe this is the lot next to the new Panera Bread. Slim Chickens looks like a fried chicken type restaurant, similar to a Zaxbys. Anecdotally, I don’t think there are many fried chicken or chicken wing takeaway type places in Ann Arbor, but I’m not a big fried chicken guy so correct me if I’m wrong.

Speaking of Panera Bread, the old location on Jackson is proposing upgrading the lot with a drive through. That’s curious, they might have already found another tenant.

Overflowing with too many animals but not enough people to adopt them, the Humane Society of Huron Valley in Ann Arbor is waiving adoption fees through Sunday.

Dataviz of DTE outages via @fgregg@mastodon.social

Nearly five inches of rain fell on some parts of eastern Washtenaw County in just a few hours as storms swept across the area Wednesday night, Aug. 23.

The unusually heavy downpour qualifies as a “500-year” storm for a three-hour time period, meaning such an event has a 0.2% chance of happening at any given time, according to the Washtenaw County Water Resources Commissioner’s Office.

Every month Third Mind Books shows a movie based on the kind of books they sell. This Saturday August 26th at 8pm its "The Maltese Falcon." Here's the info from their web page:

>Join us for our 7th monthly installment of Classic Movie Night! >We'll be watching the legendary film noir and the 1941 directorial debut of John Huston The Maltese Falcon. >A San Francisco private detective deals with a group of cons who are competing to obtain a jewel-encrusted Maltese Falcon. >Based on the 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett (Available in store!) >Snacks and drinks (with lids!) welcome. https://www.thirdmindbooks.com/

They just project it on a screen, it's not exactly a movie theater, but it's still a great environment. Downtown AA at 118 E Wasthington, btw.