Tag Archives: Battle of the Overpass

If all goes well, in a few days, I’ll be meeting a man whose father built the secret tunnels beneath Harry Bennett’s castle on the Huron River

By Mark | January 16, 2017

Every now and again, as I’ve written about him a few times in the past, I get an odd call about infamous Ford enforcer Harry Bennett, who built a fortress not far from here in 1930 to protect him from his many enemies. Not too long ago, as you might recall, a man contacted me […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-union, Arthur Brisbane, Benjamin Stolberg, Black Legion, castles, Ford, Ford Service Department, Gestapo, guns, Harry Bennett, Hitler, intimidation, KKK, labor history, lions, murder, paranoia, Rouge plant, The Black Legion Rides, tunnels, union busting, unions | 9 Comments

Pure Michigan indeed

By Mark | January 9, 2013

I went off on a rant last night about how shortsighted and stupid it was for the administration in Lansing to politicize the widely-celebrated Pure Michigan campaign by using it to proudly promote their recent union-busting activities in a high-profile, full-page in the Wall Street Journal. And, apparently, I struck a nerve. Deadline Detroit and […]

Posted in Marketing, Michigan | Also tagged abortion, ad campaigns, Dances with Wolves, Emily Mills, Jeff Clark, Ken Boyd, poverty, public relations fail, Pure Michigan, racism, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, Ted Nugent, wolves | 39 Comments

Someone should tell Governor Snyder that a “perfect storm” isn’t generally considered a good thing

By Mark | January 8, 2013

The state of Michigan took out an incredibly-costly full-page ad in today’s Wall Street Journal, proudly announcing to the world not only that we’ve officially joined the likes of Alabama and Mississippi in becoming a so-called “right-to-work” state, but that we’ve finally put the embarrassing pro-labor legacy of the The Battle of the Overpass behind […]

Posted in Media, Michigan, Observations, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged cheap labor, hypocrisy, Jase Bolger, labor history, marketing, Michigan House of Representatives, Pure Michigan, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, threats to the middle class, unions, Wall Street Journal | 36 Comments

Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle

By Mark | February 21, 2012

I just received a note from Nathan Ayers, the guy who won the first $1,000 grant from A2Awesome. He wanted to let me know that, back in 1984, the television program PM Magazine ran a feature on Harry Bennett’s fortress on the banks of the Huron River, in Ypsilanti. Bennett, for those of you don’t […]