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Downtown Ann Arbor’s Federal Building in line for green upgrades

The feds are starting to green their buildings and one of the first to undergo these environmentally friendly updates is Ann Arbor’s Federal Building.The downtown structure on Liberty between Fourth and Fifth streets will receive $2.4 million in improvements, including advanced water and electricity meters. A new green roof is also a possibility.The money is coming from the Federal Stimulus bill and is being administered by the U.S. General Services Administration. $5.5 billion has been designated for federal buildings throughout the country.Repeated calls to agency over several days to find out further details were not returned.Source: U.S. General Services AdministrationWriter: Jon Zemke

U-M prof chosen for Census Bureau

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April 8, 2009

A top University of Michigan professor is moving from Ann Arbor to Washington, D.C., to take a top spot in Barack Obama's administration.Excerpt:WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Thursday picked University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves -- who in the 1990s had a run-in with Republicans over the suggested use of sampling to correct undercounts of minority populations -- to head the Census Bureau.Even before the announcement was made, Groves, 60, a sociology professor and director of the Survey Research Institute at U-M, was being criticized by congressional Republicans. They remembered him advocating statistical sampling in the decennial count of the U.S. population when he was an associate census director.Read the rest of the story here.

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