Marijuana consumption lounge coming, M-14 crashes need to stop: Ann Arbor headlines May 1-6
Posted May 07, 2021
The owners behind the Liberty Provisioning Center marijuana dispensary on Ashley Street in downtown Ann Arbor have plans to open a cannabis consumption lounge in the pink house next door.Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News
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Ann Arbor is getting its first commercial marijuana consumption lounge and officials say it also will be the first of its kind in Michigan.
Plans are in the works to convert the pink house at 336 S. Ashley St. next to the Liberty Provisioning Center marijuana dispensary on the west edge of downtown into a lounge allowing onsite consumption of cannabis products.
‘We did it’: University of Michigan graduates celebrate virtual ceremony at the Big House
Updated May 01, 2021;
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ANN ARBOR, MI – There was a celebratory mood inside Michigan Stadium Saturday afternoon as thousands of 2020 and 2021 graduates from the University of Michigan watched a virtual commencement ceremony with their friends and fellow graduates.
Members of UM’s class of 2021 arrived at the stadium at assigned interval times to watch a virtual commencement ceremony on video boards, which included speeches from various deans of different schools and colleges. Students also listened to speeches from UM President Mark Schlissel, Provost Susan Collins, Board of Regents Chair Denise Illitch and outgoing Central Student Government President Amanda Kaplan.
University of Michigan community members hold mock renaming of Weiser Hall after regent’s controversial comments
Updated Apr 03, 5:31 PM;
Posted Apr 03, 5:31 PM
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ANN ARBOR, MI Students, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan gathered at Weiser Hall Saturday afternoon to hold a mock renaming of the building in response to inflammatory comments recently made by Regent Ron Weiser.
Community members renamed the building the “Weiser Center for Voter Suppression, Political Assassination and Witch Burning.” The ceremony included yard signs covering the original building sign and spray-painted stencils with the “new name.”
“When you have a regent who refers to Michigan’s leadership as ‘three witches,’ it’s disgusting and deplorable,” said UM junior Sam Burnstein. “We’re just organizing to call for his resignation because, obviously what they did at the regents meeting was the most that they could do.”
Weiser refuses call by UM regents to resign, saying he won t be canceled
University of Michigan regent and Michigan Republican Party chairman Ron Weiser refused to resign after the university s Democratic-majority board called for him to do so during a rare Friday special meeting prompted by his controversial remarks about high-ranking elected officials.
Six Democratic regents approved a resolution to censure Weiser for the comments that brought national and international disrepute on the university. Of the two Republicans, Regent Sarah Hubbard abstained, while Weiser didn t appear to cast a vote.
The 75-year-old GOP regent on Friday apologized for his offhand remarks last week calling Michigan s three Democratic female leaders the three witches. He pledged to be part of a respectful dialogue moving forward and refused to resign.
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