Yesterday, as you can see in the above graphic from Detroit Channel 4, 3,338 new cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in Michigan, far exceeding anything we’ve seen during the earlier waves of the coronavirus pandemic. As our current fatality rate in the state is 4.7%, that essentially means that 157 Michiganders were told yesterday that […]
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After months of the President promising that COVID-19 would just “disappear,” the White House Chief of Staff concedes, “We’re not going to control the pandemic”
Posted in Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris, Lansing, Liberate Michigan, pandemic, public health, Triumph Church 16 Comments
Donald Trump, claiming to have “total authority,” says the American economy will reopen when he decides
Today was fucked up. I found out that a friend of mine, a nurse in Detroit, died from COVID-19. We hadn’t seen each other in quite a long time, but I thought about her often. About a week ago, I found myself logging into Facebook, just to see if she was OK. Knowing that she […]
Posted in Health, Mark's Life, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, anti-science, authoritarianism, California, Constitution, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Joe Biden, Justin Amash, Lansing, Michigan Freedom Fund, Monica, NFL, nurses, personal protective equipment, Phil Murphy, PPE, protests, public health, serology tests, social distancing, states rights, those anti-science Republicans 109 Comments
Melvin Parson and the campaign to create a world-class urban farm in Ypsilanti
Melvin Parson and I have been working off an on for the past two years on an interview for this site. It began as an Ypsilanti Immigration Interview, and, over time, as we dug deeper into his work with We The People Growers Association, evolved into something more about his dream of establishing a world-class […]
Posted in Agriculture, Ann Arbor, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 13th, addiction, Ann Arbor, Avalon Housing, Black Beauty, community gardens, culinary arts, Dawn Farm, Doug Coombe, drugs, Edible Avalon, Emanuel Tyus, food hub, fundraising, Great Migration, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Museum, heroin, inequality, Kerrytown, Kerrytown Farmers Market, local food, local food production, matching grants, Melvin Parson, Michigan Department of Corrections, Parkridge Homes, Port Huron, prison industry, prison reform, Shaka Senghor, social justice, St. Joseph Mercy, substance abuse, the hiring on ex-fellons, urban farming, Washtenaw County Jail, We The People Growers Association, We The People Opportunity Center, white flight, Wizard of Oz, YCS, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools 9 Comments