Over the past several weeks, it’s come to light that Water Street, the 38-acre parcel of downtown, riverfront property that the City of Ypsilanti has been trying to develop for the past 16 years, may be significantly more toxic than we’d previously been led to believe. What follows is the first of what I’m hoping […]
Tag Archives: chemicals
Why are we just now finding out the extent of the contamination on Water Street?
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged arsenic, Baseline Environmental Assessment, Beth Ernat, Biltmore, Border to Border Trail, brownfield, Brownfield plan, Cheryl Farmer, DDCC, development, Document of Due Care and Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Farm Bureau, lead, MEDQ, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, MSHDA, native prairie, oxic Control Substances Act of 1976, PCBs, pollution, toxic environment, VOCs, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Water Street Flats, Water Street Sculpture Park, West Forest 31 Comments
Big Death… How the funeral industry is killing us
As it’s been a while since we’ve discussed America’s rapidly consolidating and progressively evil funeral industry, I thought that I’d share this comment, which was left a few days ago on Reddit, in a thread about industry secrets, by an unnamed individual claiming to be a funeral director. [I’ve added several links, but otherwise the […]
Posted in Other, Uncategorized Also tagged A Family Undertaking, All Saints, anus, big death, biohazard, casket, coined phrases, coining new words and phrases, Corporate Crime, cremation, cremation societies, Death, deathcare, Dignity Memorials, embalming fluid, Erika Nelson, eye caps, FTC Funeral Rule, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral homes, funeral supplies, funerals, Generations Funeral Service, green burial, Josh Slocum, leakage, monopoly, Muehlig Funeral Home, napping in caskets, natural burial, pollution, purge, pyramid schemes, sales, SCI, Secrets, Service Corporation International, STEI, Stewart Enterprises, toxic waste, trocar, vagina, water quality 33 Comments
Terrorist plot foiled over Detroit on Christmas day
I woke up this morning to find my family watching FOX News. Apparently, a Nigerian man had attempted to ignite an incendiary device strapped to his leg on a Detroit-bound flight yesterday, while we were celebrating Christmas. Fortunately, it seems that this fellow, who was intent on killing hundreds of people, proved to be about […]
Posted in Other, Religious Extremism Also tagged 23, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, airport security, al Qaeda, Amsterdam, Andrew Sullivan, Christmas, First Bank of Nigeria, hare-brained plots, heroics, incendiary devices, Juan Cole, leg bomber, legs, nefarious uses of the human leg, Nigeria, Richelle Keepman, shoe bomber, suicide bomber, terrorism, Transportation Security Administration, University College London 43 Comments