Three Smartcars parked across from Dawn Treader, available for test drives. Saleswoman says they’ll be in the downtown area through the weekend, hoping to tap the Sundance crowds at Michigan Theater. They’re from Roger Penske’s Bloomfield Hills dealership, she says: “He loves Ann Arbor!”
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Civil engineering graffiti all along the east sidewalk of Division, between William and Liberty, indicates that the sidewalk is coming up soon. Signs at the north and south ends say the sidewalk is closed, but dozens of pedestrians use it anyway.
The Detroit Free Press looks at a dispute between state legislators and the boards that manage Detroit’s two public pension funds. Lawmakers have introduced bills to bring the pension funds under the control of a Lansing-based nonprofit trust, the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System. The article quotes Bob Stevenson, an Ann Arbor-based pension attorney, who says the Bing administration should restructure the existing boards: “Undoubtedly, the Detroit pension systems have been poorly run, but I don’t think the answer in my view would be to transition to MERS. I would find some means to keep these pension plans autonomous.” [Source]
The Eat Close to Home blog puts out a call for volunteers for Avalon Housing’s Edible Avalon project: “Edible Avalon is a great group that’s not only helping to build gardens in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area, they are teaching people how to garden and supporting them through their first gardening efforts. They are looking for volunteers to help mentor new gardeners at their garden sites 1-3 hours per week.” [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
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And perhaps the folks here for the, um, Folk Festival? Smart Car has had a trailer parked on the south side of town (off Boardwalk) all week–was wondering why.
Also saw them on Main street today as I was driving to the woods in my smart car. And by the way, the company doesn’t capitalize smart car, or run together smart and car. I don’t know what to do if you start a sentence with smart. Mary? What we have here in the U.S. is the smart fortwo car. Perhaps the source of confusion about what words to combine. I hope people had a chance to enjoy driving the cars.