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Do all of us older folks need to die before things get better?

By Mark | February 28, 2018

A few days ago, in response to a post that I’d written about the young leaders emerging from the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, there was an interesting exchange between two of our favorite commenters, Jean [the first comment above] and Lynn [the second comment above], about, among other things, the idea that sometimes, for true […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged aging, aging population, assault weapons, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Defend Affordable Ypsi, fear of death, Grace Lao, gun control, international youth movements, Jean Henry, life and death, Linette, Lynn, Martin Luther King, meditations on death, Moms Demand Action, moral arc, on facing death, Parkland, Theodore Parker | 248 Comments

Was Ypsi City Council right to take the parks away from the DTCDC?

By Mark | July 5, 2009

A reader of this site calling himself Andy Ypsilanti recently left the following letter to the Mayor and City Council in the comments section and I thought that I’d move it up here, as we’ve yet to really discuss whether or not the recent move by City Council to strip control of Riverside and Frog […]

Posted in Observations, Other, Rants, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Brian Robb, City Council, Depot Town CDC, Depot Town Community Development Corporation, Downtown Association of Ypsilanti, Michael Bodary, Pete Murdock, Ypsi city attorney, Ypsitucky, Ypsitucky Jamboree | 64 Comments

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