Remember how I was telling you a few days ago that I’d gotten my hands on a 1933 Ypsilanti phone book? Well, here’s a little something that I thought you might find of interest. Back in ’33, there were roughly four times as many grocery stores in Ypsilanti as restaurants. Granted, the shops in question […]
Also posted in History, Ypsilanti | Tagged 1933, evolution, family dinners, family size, fast food, grocery stores, home cooked meals, mole people, nutrient sludge, restaurants, sludge, subterranean living |
By Mark | February 2, 2016
About a year ago, a friend gave me a homemade antenna he’d made for his television out of a piece of scrap lumber and a few feet of wire. Well, a few days ago, on a whim, I plugged it into the TV we have hooked up to our DVD player, and, much to my […]
Also posted in Mark's Life | Tagged Super Bowl |
A few weeks ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a grant to local bee activist Jamie Berlin to help ensure that Ypsilant’s Festival of the Honey Bee can continue on into the future. Following is my discussion with Jamie about how the festival came about, what we can expect from this year’s event, and […]
Also posted in A2Awesome, Environment, Uncategorized | Tagged apiary, Bee City USA, bees, Bike2Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, food security, honey bees, Jamie Berlin, Karl von Frisch, Lisa Bashert, Meghan Milbrath, pollinators, The Silence of the Bees, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi Melissa |
A few weeks ago, after a hard-fought campaign by public health professionals and women’s rights advocates across the state of Michgan, Governor Snyder signed into law the Breastfeeding Antidiscrimination Act (SB 674), essentially giving nursing mothers in our state the right to breastfeed publicly without fear of arrest. In celebration of this fact, I reached […]
Also posted in Health, Local Business, Michigan | Tagged Baby-Friendly, breast milk, breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Antidiscrimination Act, Breastfeeding Peers, Business Case For Breastfeeding, Gayathri Akella, lactation, old white men making decisions on women's health, Pauline Lesser, poverty, public breastfeeding, pumping, Rick Snyder, SB 674, smoking, teen moms, UNICEF, Washtenaw County Breastfeeding Friendly Business Awards, WIC, women's health, World Health Organization |
Rick Snyder, the 48th Governor of Michigan, took office in 2011 pledging to put politics aside, and do what was best for the State. Unlike other Republicans, he said, his intention was not to push a hardline agenda of privatization and union busting. “I don’t believe in privatization,” the self-proclaimed ‘tough nerd’ said in 2012. […]
Also posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Michigan, Uncategorized | Tagged AFSCME, anti-union, Aramark, for-profit prisons, maggots, Muskegon Heights, prison industry, prisoner rights, privatization, Rick Snyder, union busting |