Tag Archives: Katrease Stafford

Mark’s Covid Diary… June 16, 2020

By Mark | June 16, 2020

Since we last spoke,

Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged agent provocateurs, ANTIFA, Arizona, bleach, Boogaloo, Costco, COVID-19, crisis gardens, Donald Trump, Enrique Neblett, Florida, food delivery, George Floyd, gun reform, gun violence, health disparities, inequality, Jaws, kale, Kroger, lungs, lynching, masks, milkshakes, Monica, political violence, privilege, public health, race inequality, racism, school shooting, Shake Shack, structural racism, Texas, violence on the extreme right | 42 Comments

Election Day live blog

By Mark | November 8, 2016

8:00 AM… A friend asked what we should tell our children this morning. This was my response. 7:30 AM… Best case scenario. People who have been waiting on the sidelines with information on Trump, thinking that he’d likely lose, now come forward. This results in bipartisan impeachment proceedings. A weakened Pence administration is contained by […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, bullying, Canada, Christmas, community organizing, despair, Detroit Party Marching Band, Donald Trump, D’Real Graham, elections, end times, extinction, Hillary Clinton, impeachment, Jill Stein, Jim Bakker, Make America Great Again, optimism, pessimism, post-truth, Presidential politics, protest vote, reality television, revolution, Ruth Kraut, Sidetrack, the end of the world, truth, violence, voting, WEMU | 468 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, Detroit Free Press, Flint, Flint water crisis, Jennifer Scroggins, lead, lead poisoning, Miles Larson, outrage, Rick Snyder, Susan Fecteau, USA Today | 18 Comments

Pointless Brewery & Theatre to explore the intersection of brewing and improv

By Mark | March 23, 2015

If all goes according to plan, Tori and Jason Tomalia will soon be the proprietors of new brewery situated between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti that will cater primarily to lovers of improvisational comedy. The brewery, which they’ve dubbed Pointless, will be just a few doors down from our friends at Hut-K Chaats, at the intersection […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized | Also tagged beer, cancer, chemotherapy, comedy, Dan Izzo, dreams, Gary Lehman, genetic testing, Go Comedy!, improv comedy, Improv Inferno, Jason Tomalia, Kickstarter, lung cancer, Minneapolis, personalized medicine, Planet Ant, Pointless Brewery, Pointless Brewery & Theatre, Tori Tomalia | 13 Comments

Ypsi police confirm Julia Niswender’s stepfather is a “person of interest” in her killing… but that doesn’t mean we should expect an arrest anytime soon

By Mark | March 4, 2015

It was all over the news today that Ypsilanti police had announced that James Turnquist (seen above), the stepfather of Julia Niswender, is a “person of interest” in her December 2012 murder. What wasn’t in the news, however, was that this was nothing new, and did not indicate that a break had been made in […]