Following are my extremely rough, admittedly incomplete notes on tonight’s meeting of the Ypsilanti Police-Community Relations / Black Lives Matter Joint Task Force. If you were also in the audience, and have something to add, please leave a comment. And, of course, feel free to weigh in on whatever you read below. As you’ll soon […]
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Members of the Ypsilanti community talk with city officials about living in fear of the police and how we can work together to make things better
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged anger, Anthony Morgan, black lives matter, body cameras, cell phones, Citizen Review Board, Crisis Intervention Team, cultural awareness, Dan Vogt, de-escalation, Eastern Washtenaw Safety Alliance, Emmett Till, Heritage Fest, implicit bias, Jerry Clayton, mental health, mental illness, Nicole Brown, over policing, police violence, prison industrial complex, racism, sentencing disparities, subject control, Tony DeGiusti, use of force, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Ypsilanti police department 95 Comments
The Patti Smith Group’s Ivan Král on the origins of punk, Anne Brown on her platform for the Michigan House, and restaurant owner Bee Roll on her bumpy, awesome year… on episode 39 of the Saturday Six Pack
I’ve fallen behind in my write-ups of past episodes. I’m sorry about that. I thought, since we were off the air these last two weeks, I’d get caught up, but other things kept getting in the way. [Speaking of which, I may have something relatively big to announce in a few week’s time.] Last night, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged ABKCO, Allen Klein, Alma Wheeler Smith, Apple Corps, Arista Records, Bee Roll, Beezy's, Betty Green, birth weight, Blank Generation, Blondie, CBGB, Clive Davis, Czechoslovakia, Danny Fields, David Rutledge, Debbie Harry, Dee Dee Ramone, Herman’s Hermits, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, injustice, Ivan Kral, Jim Cherewick, Luger, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan's 54th district, New York, New York City, North Washington Street, oral history, Patti Smith, Pete Larson, Pete Lason, public health, public policy, punk, punk rock, punks, Ramones, Rick Snyder, Rolling Stones, Steffan Graf, The Beatles, The Patti Smith Group, Water Street, William Milliken, Ypsi Real, Ypsilanti City Council, Ypsilantian of the Year 20 Comments
Ivan Kral takes us behind the scenes at the birth of New York punk, Anne Brown shares her platform for the State House, and Bee Roll reflects on how being “Ypsilantian of the Year” has changed her life… on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack
A month or so ago, we had local entrepreneur Steffan Graf of on the show, talking about his life on the road with Grand Funk Railroad, and how he went from opening for Led Zeppelin to designing residential lighting systems for the likes of Keith Richards. Well, after we turned the off the mics, Graf […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bee Roll, Beezy's, Berlin, CBGB, David Bowie, David Rutledge, documentary film, Iggy Pop, Ivan Kral, Jim Cherewick, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan's 54th district, music, oral history, Patti Smith, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, punk, punk rock, Stefan Graf, The Blank Generation, Ypsilantian of the Year 4 Comments