Tag: Ann Arbor

"We were trying to do something thoughtful to honor President Coleman for her service to the university and athletic department and unfortunately the sound system backfired on us," athletic director Dave Brandon said in a written statement.

All wonderful considerations made yesterday by voters all over the state of Michigan. Yes, the winner of attention, but sadly not the winner at the ballot box in Ann Arbor's 4th ward city commission race.

As a 9-year-old living near Tijuana, Mexico, Dayanna Rebolledo could stand on her tiptoes and peek over a fence at the United States. Across the fence was a safer country, a place where she could get a better education, a land of opportunity.

Now 21, having lived as an undocumented immigrant for 12 years in Detroit, Rebolledo wonders if she was wrong about that opportunity. She can't get a driver's license. She's attending Henry Ford Community College, but she won't be able to get a good job without a Social Security card.

"I don't know where my life is going to go," Rebolledo said.

Holy crap!  Can you imagine being in the adult world for three years, while attending a community college as an illegal alien and making a statement like that?  I can't.  Dayanna, and all others like her should be really, really p!ssed off at her parents.  They are the ones who chose through their own volition to be reckless gatecrashers without regard for their children let alone our American Laws.  Without sorrow, it's time to return to your motherland, Dayanna.  You've known that you didn't belong just like your parents who broke our Laws bringing you hear.

Michigan is an exacerbated example of the woes facing the US economy-the poster child of how bad things can get.

Recently it came to light that the Ann Arbor City Council members were emailing each other during the meetings. While on the surface that may not surprise you, what they were emailing should.
www.mlive.com/opinion/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/06/ann_arbor_city_councils_emaili.html