Tag Archives: Indiana

Having learning nothing from the Gulf disaster, BP allows crude oil to pour into Lake Michigan

By Mark | March 25, 2014

It looks like our friends at BP are up to their old tricks again. This time, though, the oil being spilled isn’t in the Gulf of Mexico, where the company’s cost-cutting measures in 2010 led to the largest oil spill in recorded history, but in Lake Michigan, the largest repository of fresh water on the […]

Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged BP, British Petroleum, Corporate Crime, crude oil, Deepwater Horizon, drinking water, fresh water, Great Lakes, gulf coast, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Michigan, Michigan, oil, pollution, tar sands, Whiting, Whiting refinery | 10 Comments

Water Street Flats… What are your thoughts?

By Mark | January 21, 2014

At tomorrow night’s Ypsi City Council meeting, our elected officials will be considering a proposal concerning the development of 3.14 acres at the intersection of South and River streets, on the 38-acre downtown parcel commonly referred to as Water Street. The proposal, which you can download on the City’s website, outlines the intention of Indiana-based […]

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged affordable housing, apartment, dollar store, economic development, Family Dollar, Herman Kittle Properties, HKP, Huron River, River Street, South Street, Water Street, Water Street Commons, Water Street Redevelopment Project, Ypsilanti City Council | 79 Comments

Davy Rothbart on following hunches, being persistent, ceding control, and beating David Duchovny to the punch: The story of Medora

By Mark | December 11, 2013

This Thursday night, the documentary Medora will be making its Michigan debut at Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater. The film, which is the most recent production of Found Magazine’s Davy Rothbart, is ostensibly about a small town basketball team’s seemingly impossible struggle to break a two-year losing streak. As you quickly realize when you watch […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged 8 Ball, American dream, Andrew Cohn, Bain Capital, basketball, Beachside Films, Byron Case, Chaz Cowles, Cory Booker, David Duchovny, Davy Rothbart, deindustrialization, documentary film, Dylan McSoley, ESPN, Film, Found Magazine, Gummo, high school, Hoop Dreams, Hoosiers, John Branch, Kansas City, Kickstarter, Little Miss Sunshine, manufacturing, Mary Manhardt, Medora, Medora Hornets, midwest, My Heart Is an Idiot, New York Times, Perry Street Tavern, poverty, Rusty Rogers, Safety Not Guaranteed, school consolidation, Stanley Tucci, Street Fight, The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison, underdogs, Zach Fish | 14 Comments

Indiana continues to allow BP to dump toxic mercury into Lake Michigan… spelling doom for mankind

By Mark | June 23, 2013

A little over two years ago, we had a conversation on this site about what recourse, if any, the people of Michigan might have against Indiana for giving British Petroleum (BP) the go-ahead to disregard laws concerning the dumping of hazardous chemicals, and discharge unprecedented amounts of ammonia and toxic, heavy metal sludge into Lake […]

Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged ammonia, BP, British Petroleum, Chicago, clean water, fresh water, heavy metal, Juan Cole, Lake Michigan, legislative capture, mercury, mercury poisoning, short-sighted, toxic waste, water, water quality, Whiting refinery | 15 Comments

Will Michigan follow Indiana and be the next “right-to-work” domino to fall in the right’s ceaseless quest to rollback worker rights?

By Mark | December 5, 2012

When the citizens of Michigan recently failed to pass Proposition 2, which would have established the right to collective bargaining in our State Constitution, we signaled to members of the Republican party that now was the time to launch their all out attack on organized labor. When Prop 2 lost by 15-points, we demonstrated to […]