This is a response to an unsigned editorial published Monday 5 October 2009 in the Western Herald concerning Western Michigan University’s designs on the Colony Farm Orchard. Since it was unsigned, it’s presumably the official position of the Herald Editorial Board. My response was published in the Herald on Monday 12 October. The version here [...]
Wednesday afternoon, 30 September 2009, the Appropriations Committee of the Michigan Senate approved the bill that would eliminate the conservation restrictions contained in the original conveyance of the state-owned land called the Colony Farm Orchard to Western Michigan University. That language is “Western Michigan University may utilize the property solely for public park, recreation, or [...]
Matt Clysdale, a local film-maker (Animals Among Us), will be screening the first part of a two or more part film about Western Michigan University’s planned conversion of the Colony Farm Orchard open space to Business Park annex. Here is his announcement.
Greetings everyone,
Please join me this Tuesday at 9 pm on Channel 19 for the
premiere [...]
On Thursday 17 September 2009, in the Michigan House of Representatives, Robert Jones’s House Bill 5207 was read a second time, placed on third reading, placed on immediate passage, read a third time, passed and given immediate effect (Yeas 105 Nays 2), title amended, and transmitted to the Senate. It all happened fast, though perhaps [...]
Richard Brewer is a biological scientist and author.
His most recent book is Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America, published in October 2003 by the University Press of New England under the Dartmouth College imprint.
