Every once in a while someone I don’t know hands me something and asks me to publish it on this site. Until today, however, I don’t think that I’ve actually ever done it. I’ve never taken something that I’ve found scrawled on a piece of paper and stuck in my mailbox, and posted it. An […]
Tag Archives: contamination
The Danger (re)Zone… the unsellable houses of Bell Street
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bell Street, Bonnie Wessler, environmental injustice, environmental racism, Erin Snyder, fair housing, Habitat for Humanity, Huron Street, landfills, PMD, poverty, Production Manufacturing Distribution, property values, soil contamination, Spring Street, toxic environment, Ypsilanti Housing Commission, Ypsilanti Planning Commission, Ypsilanti real estate, zoning, Zoning Board of Appeals 45 Comments
Panic on Water Street… MSHDA report raises specter of toxins that could derail development, but is it accurate?
Based on a draft Health Risk Evaluation report made public late yesterday afternoon by Ann Arbor News reporter Tom Perkins, it would appear that there’s some question as to whether or not Ypsilanti’s Water Street Redevelopment Area (WSRA) may be safe for human habitation. At least that’s the sense one might get from the article’s […]
Posted in Environment, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged affordable housing, AKT Peerless, Beth Ernat, Brian Robb, community development, contaminated soil, Daniel Lince, development, Emergency Manager, Herman Kittle Properties, HUD, looming receivorship, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, MSHDA, remediation, section 8, soil contamination, Water Street, Water Street Flats 52 Comments
The mystery of the Woman Without a Face
I can’t remember if we’ve discussed it here before, but, for the past several years, German authorities have been hot on the trail of a mysterious serial killer. Called “the woman without a face,” the killer was thought to have murdered dozens of people over a span of 15 years. Here, by way of background, […]
Posted in Other Also tagged bad police work, DNA, Germany, phantom killer, science fail, serial killer, the woman without a face 8 Comments