Tag Archives: Detroit Free Press

How to survive in a world without facts

By Mark | December 1, 2016

The utter disregard for truth that we’re seeing with Trump isn’t something that’s completely new… I just went through the archive here and found a number of instances over the past decade or so, where we’ve lamented the fact that truth was becoming a thing of the past. Back in 2008, I apparently even posted […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, History, Ideas, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alison Camerota, Barack Obama, Birthers, citizen journalism, CNN, conspiracy theories, fact check, free press, future of journalism, Glenn Thrush, global climate change, Hannah Arendt, Hillary Clinton, House Committee on Science Space and Technology, James Fallows, journalism, Judith Miller, Lamar Smith, lies, lying, Margaret Sullivan, media literacy, New York Times, post-truth, press, Scottie Nell Hughes, swift boating, the future of journalism, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the sad state of journalism, totalitarianism, voter fraud, voter impersonation, Washington Post, Ypsi-Arbor Progressive Book Club | 97 Comments

The growing backlash against Rick Snyder on the streets of Ann Arbor

By Mark | February 15, 2016

Katrease Stafford has a piece in today’s Detroit Free Press about the growing backlash Rick Snyder has been encountering here in his hometown of Ann Arbor. Here, in case you’re interested, is my brief contribution to the discussion. Read the whole article if you have a chance. There’s lots of good stuff. Stafford spent all […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Mark's Life | Also tagged activism, brushes with fame, Flint, Flint water crisis, Jennifer Scroggins, Katrease Stafford, lead, lead poisoning, Miles Larson, outrage, Rick Snyder, Susan Fecteau, USA Today | 18 Comments

Exploring Ypsilanti’s place on the Underground Railroad: part two

By Mark | January 7, 2015

This past November, I posted a lengthy interview with local historian Matt Siegfried about slavery, the fight for emancipation, and the role played by Ypsilantians in that struggle. We covered an incredible amount of ground, but, as I still had a lot of unanswered questions, I asked him back. Following, as Paul Harvey would say, […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1850, A Woman’s Life Work, Abolitionism, Anti-Slavery Bugle, Canada, Civil War, David Gordon, Detroit, Elsie Hamilton, Fugitive Slave Act, George DeBaptiste, HP Jacobs, John P. Chester, Kentucky, kidnapping, Laura Haviland, Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society, Matt Siegfried, Nashville, personal liberty laws, Quakers, Raisin Institute, reconstruction, Ross Wilkins, runaway slaves, slave-catchers, slavery, Tennessee, Thomas Chester, UGRR, underground railroad, Voice of the Fugitive, Willis Hamilton | 18 Comments

Reinventing Michigan so as to accelerate the Michigan exodus

By Mark | December 17, 2012

Brian Dickerson has a good piece in the Detroit Free Press today on the Republican agenda in Michigan and how it could be driving young, educated workers from our state. It’s essentially a continuation of the much-talked-about “Michissippi” article by Edward McClelland that ran in Salon last week. In that piece, as you’ll recall, McClelland […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged brain drain, Brian Dickerson, Edward McClelland, Michissippi, Rick Snyder, right-to-work | 26 Comments

AnnArbor.com cuts staff considerably, laying off 14

By Mark | March 13, 2011

They’re not really talking about it on the AnnArbor.com site, but on Friday they laid off 14 employees. According to Michigan Radio, this leaves about 20 or so people in their newsroom. (The old Ann Arbor News, from what I’m told, had approximately 75 reporters in their newsroom.) Among those let go were lead blogger […]