In the wake of evidence surfacing that proves the Snyder administration knew of a connection between Flint’s water and a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease a full ten months before they took action, and Snyder’s subsequent refusal to testify before a Congressional committee as to what happened in Flint, it’s not surprising that even the […]
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Should I sign the Snyder recall petition? What are you planning to do?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bill Schuette, breach of duty, Brian Calley, Cakegate, Candice Miller, Dick DeVos, East Detroit, Emergency Manager, executive orders, Flint, Flint water crisis, gross negligence, Koch brothers, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, manslaughter, Michigan Attorney General, petitions, Rick Snyder, School Reform Office, State Board of Canvassers, Warren Consolidated Schools Board of Education, water 39 Comments
Nothing says you care about the people of Flint like hosting an opulent party for your friends in downtown Ann Arbor behind blacked out windows
I got word this past weekend that there was a secret party taking place in downtown Ann Arbor, a posh event inside an upscale restaurant. The windows of the restaurant, I was told, had been “blacked out,” and there was security outside. The man who had rented it out, according to the person who first […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Arbor News, birthday parties, blind items, criminal investigation, FBI, Flint, Flint Child Health and Development Fund, Flint water crisis, Heather Anne Leavitt, Judge Mathis, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, Live, Nordstrom's, parties, poison, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, Sue Snyder, Susan Fecteau, Sweet Heather Anne, water, West End Grill, Wonkette 90 Comments
How to Build and Race a Losing Shopping Cart
One week each year, in August, before the college students return, and while all of the cops are up north at their summer cottages, it’s safe for the punks to return to Ann Arbor. It’s called Punk Week, and it culminates with a big clandestine shopping cart race through downtown. Not wanting to bum any […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture Also tagged aerodynamics, Annamarie O'Brien, August, bending space and time, cardboard, collective losers, coming in last, concentrated Salvia, fashion outlaws, flashlights for eyes, Ford Escort, Hipsilanti, Ian Fulcher, Jen Scroggins, Jessica French, K-Mart, Kat Scott, loosers, Patrick Elkins, Punk Week, racing, shopping cart races, shopping carts, shopping carts made to look like sharks, slow wheeled sharks, spray paint, Stefan Krstovic, theft, when punks compete, wizards 9 Comments