Cars are backed up on Main going South, (M-14 to Huron St.) and onto Huron River Drive all the way from Main Street to the first parking lot for Barton Dam. No obvious reason why.
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Cars are backed up on Main going South, (M-14 to Huron St.) and onto Huron River Drive all the way from Main Street to the first parking lot for Barton Dam. No obvious reason why.
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Spelling-challenged graffiti on the wall of the former Ann Arbor News building. [Photo]
In a case study of how the nationwide lending crisis is affecting small businesses, the Wall Street Journal looks at the complex relationship between Michigan Ladder in Ypsilanti, home builder James Haeussler and the Bank of Ann Arbor. The bank’s president, Tim Marshall, describes how even healthy banks like his are being cautious lenders: “It’s kind of a vicious cycle. Anytime you’re in an economic environment like we are, bankers are going to be more conservative.” [Source]
The Gov Monitor reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm is in California meeting with Google executives to push for choosing a city in Michigan to test its high-speed fiber optic network. From the report: “Granholm is encouraging Michigan communities to submit applications for the trial network with several already in the works including, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Lansing/East Lansing.” The article quotes Granholm: “Google fiber is a perfect fit here as no state can match the exploding new technology investment in Michigan in recent years.” [Source]
A March 1 article on local candidates for state legislative races incorrectly stated that candidates file their petitions to be on the ballot with the Secretary of State. For state House Districts 52, 53 and 54 and Senate District 18, those filings are made at the Washtenaw County clerk’s office. Campaign finance reports for all state races are made with the Secretary of State. We note the error here, and have corrected it in the original article.
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AT&T Wireless has been down all day in Ann Arbor and throughout parts of the Midwest.
ChrisW,
Are you speculating there’s a connection between the backup of cars and AT&T wireless being down? (Or should I set that up as a separate Stopped. Watched. item? Actually kind of rooting for an odd connection between AT&T and cars …)
Well – the connection for me is I saw all the traffic, it seemed odd, decided to call my brother to ask if he has heard what was up and then couldn’t get through. “All circuits are busy”. Since that had never happened before, I had a moment of concern that they might be linked. And called someone with a land line for assurance. My brother is on AT&T wireless.
So there is my odd connection. You just never know when there might be a strange crisis, and two events converging had me speculating. I was also out in the woods when the towers came down on 9-11.
Here’s a roundup of power (and iPhone) troubles:
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2008/12/dte-power-outage-on-28-december-2008-takes-down-att-iphone-wireless-service.html
Bits and pieces of town are without power still, and the official as I can tell DTE word is that it might take a couple of days to get power restored. Contemplating calling DTE PR as a “correspondent” of some local journalistic enterprise to get more details.
Main Street was clogged from at least 11 to 2 Sunday because M-14 was shut down in both directions between Main Street and Miller. Don’t know why, just saw WCRC blocking eastbound traffic at Miller as I was getting on westbound.
M-14 between US-23 and I-94 was closed for a while on Sunday due to downed power lines.