For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of traveling along the Detroit River lately, there’s apparently a new landmark on the Motor City waterfront – a three-story tall pile of petroleum coke, which covers an entire city block. According to a report in today’s New York Times, we have libertarian industrialists Charles and […]
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Oily, environmentally toxic pyramid of greed being erected in Detroit by the Koch brothers
Posted in Detroit, Environment, Uncategorized Also tagged Alberta, Ambassador Bridge, Andy Hartz, Canada, carbon emissions, Charles Koch, China, CO2, Coke, corporatocracy, David Koch, Detroit River, Gary Peters, global climate change, Global Warming, John Conyers, Ken Boyd, Kerry Satterthwaite, Keystone XL pipeline, Koch brothers, lame duck, Libertarianism, Lorne Stockman, Marathon Petroleum, Matty Moroun, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, oil, Oil Change International, oil sands, petcoke, petroleum coke, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, tar sands 35 Comments
Michigan’s prison industrial complex
I’ve been thinking about Michigan prisons quite a bit lately. It seems as though, all of a sudden, the subject is everywhere… The University of Michigan’s annual exhibition of art by Michigan prisoners opened today. There’s an article on the Daily Kos this evening about how, under Governor Snyder’s Emergency Financial Manager plan, non-elected officials […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Economics, Michigan, Politics Also tagged ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, corrections, Great Lakes States, junkets, Koch brothers, Michigan general fund, minimum required sentence, parole, prison art, Prison Creative Arts Project, prison industrial complex, prison reform, prison sentences, privatization, Rebekah Warren, tethers, tough on crime, University of Michigan 26 Comments