fundraising http://michiganradio.org en How about this license plate: RU Nuts? http://michiganradio.org/post/how-about-license-plate-ru-nuts <p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" id="role_document" size="2"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4">We&rsquo;ve got a few serious problems in this state, from the fact that we lost almost a million jobs in the past decade to the inconvenient truth that higher education has become both essential for all and highly unaffordable for a large percentage of us.</font></font></font></font></font></p> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:11:08 +0000 Jack Lessenberry 6018 at http://michiganradio.org How about this license plate: RU Nuts? Detroiters raise funds for RoboCop statue http://michiganradio.org/post/detroiters-raise-funds-robocop-statue <p>Ealier this week, a guy in Massachusetts sent this <a href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> message to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing:</p><blockquote><p>"Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky &amp; Robocop would kick Rocky's butt. He's a GREAT ambassador for Detroit."</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/mayordavebing">Mayor Bing's response</a>? Thanks, but no thanks.</p><blockquote><p>"There are not any plans to erect a statue of Robocop. Thank you for the suggestion."</p></blockquote><p>But Detroit artist <a href="http://greatamericanpixel.tumblr.com/">Jerry Paffendorf</a> and others are running with the idea. Paffendorf says the idea touched a "funny bone," and sparked "the kind of interest and intrigue in Detroit, and an interest in what <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/">Robocop</a> means to Detroit." Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:55:31 +0000 Jennifer Guerra 1246 at http://michiganradio.org Detroiters raise funds for RoboCop statue