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Welcome to Michigan: Pothole Central

Hallelujah, it’s March. Goodbye, winter blues and SAD, hello dog days of summer. Now that spring has sprung, the snow has melted, and the little birdies are a-courting, it’s time to put winter behind...

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Under Siege from the Radical Right: It’s Not All About the Economy

Warning: This is a rant. I’ve always prided myself on being able to clearly see political creep from the far right, slowly working to erode our civil liberties and our civil rights. But in the last few...

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Scrappy Terriers and Fighting Global Hunger

Last week there was an amazing story emerging in the aftermath of the tornadoes that devastated Alabama. A little dog, a terrier, who was blown away from his home by a tornado managed to survive. After...

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Michigan Redistricting Puts Standout Freshman Congressman Justin Amash at Risk

The Republican Party has been handed many opportunities by the need to redraw congressional districts on the basis of the 2010 census. Some strong Republican states like Texas have grown substantially,...

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This Takes the Zucchini! Mitten City Threatens Jail Time for Guerilla Urban...

As reported by several news outlets, including ABC online, Julie Bass, an Oak Park, Michigan, woman was cited by her city for growing a vegetable garden in her front yard. Ms. Bass has opted for a jury...

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Meet The GOP’s 2012 Vice-Presidential Nominee – Candice Miller

Let me start off by saying that I have no special insider information, and in fact this idea just occurred to me. But it seems like a reasonably good idea, and I hope to create a little buzz about it....

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Book Review: Detroit Macabre by Joseph Williams

Detroit Macabre treats us to 13 short horror stories set in and around Detroit. Joseph Williams breaks from modern horror and takes the reader back to classic or gothic horror. No modern vampires in...

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Detroit, the New Urban Prairie: Forty (Plus) Square Miles of Nothing

There is nothing like opening the Sunday paper (yes, I still receive and read the physical Detroit News/Free Press, cheap newsprint, messy ink and all), initially giddy over Easter sales, only to have...

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Book Review: Practicing to Walk Like a Heron by Jack Ridl

If more poets wrote like Jack Ridl, more people would read poetry. Reading a collection of poems by Ridl, you feel as if you are sitting in his living room, or across the table at a bar, or roaming...

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What is the Republicans’ Sudden Problem with Democracy?

By the time you read this article, the Supreme Court may have decided already to declare the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional. It doesn’t matter that the Supreme Court has upheld the act four...

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