Ann Arbor

Gather at 201 E Huron St (parking lot) tomorrow (05/07) at 6:50PM for a Die-In to tell City Council that Safety Can't Wait.

Our Demands:

1. To City Council and MDOT, hurry up the takeover of MDOT roads within the city
2. To MDOT, allow safety improvements and signal adjustments now
3. To City Council, turn on the GridSmart camera features that automatically create longer crossing times for pedestrians needing extra time 4). Allocate money for Stadium safety improvements to make changes on streets the city controls right now 5). Turn off all flashing yellow left turn signals that don't yet have a pedestrian walk button override

Find out more at http://a2for.us/

I think this is really great! Too many cities are quite hostile to people with mobility issues.

The original title was "State Senators from Ann Arbor pushing for repeal on ban of single-use plastic regulations" but that sounded confusing to me.

This change, if implemented, would allow Ann Arbor to do things like require that stores charge for plastic bags.

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.”

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

@[email protected] 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.