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BP’s hostile takeover of Michigan’s environmental agency
hos·tile take·o·ver / häˌstīlˈtākˌōvər/, noun The acquisition of a company whose management does not want the deal to go through. Last
‘Bern It Up’ REMIX by DJ Steve Porter
Gotta tip my hat to DJ Steve Porter on this one. Also, Bernie doesn’t sound too bad for a Jewish boy from Brooklyn…
1000 Days Since Sandy
This week marks the third anniversary of a moment that changed so many lives – including mine – forever. On October 29th, 2012 Hurricane
Edward Snowden is a Hero
In the digital age, things happen so friggin’ fast that sometimes it’s worth slowing down amoment to reflect on how far we’ve
Dispatch from Detroit: Turn Back on the Power
Last week, my good friend Pastor Ray Anderson of the House of Help Community Center in hard-hit northwest Detroit called me with some bad news:
Dispatch from Detroit: Runaway Water Rates And the Case for Nonpayment
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Dispatch from Detroit: I’m Quitting Facebook
tl;dr version: I’m shutting down my Facebook profile. If you don’t care why and just want to know where I’m going instead, jump down to the
Why I Closed the #TweetBoat
En tren con destino errado se va más lento que andando a pie / On a train headed the wrong way one moves more slowly than by foot -Jorge Drexler
Dispatch from Detroit 4 | Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport
I had an idea tonight: If Detroit steals schoolchildren’s tax dollars to build a stadium we should hold classes in the luxury boxes
Dispatch from Detroit #3, On Water
The waves of the Detroit River lap up onto the wall of the riverwalk downtown, and young children play in the fountains that shoot up