Tag Archives: Tom Monaghan

Shirvell taint extends to Cox

Last night, I posted something here about the Assistant Attorney General of Michigan and his anonymous online harassment of an openly gay student at the University of Michigan. The student, I’m told, has since taken out a restraining order against the man, whose name is Andrew Shirvell. To my knowledge, however, no action has yet […]

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Stephen Colbert eviscerates Domino’s Pizza

Domino’s, which is headquartered in Ann Arbor, employes a lot of local folks. As that’s the case, I’m reluctant to share this piece of video, in which Stephen Colbert totally tears apart the company’s core product, its leadership, and their new strategy – which is basically to admit that their product has always been execrable, […]

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Spur Studios to open In Ypsilanti

About two years ago now, James Marks, the founder of the custom screen printing company VG Kids, and I walked through the ruins of Tom Monaghan’s failed Ypsilanti college, Ave Maria, discussing the possibility of turning it into an incubator for ambitious local arts initiatives. The timing wasn’t right for James at that moment, but […]

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