I was going to write about Florida’s executive order to reopen schools in August in spite of the fact that they just broke a national record with 11,458 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, and their hospitals are now reaching capacity, but then the Small Business Administration (SBA) finally caved to pressure and released the names […]
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PPP data, finally released by the SBA, shows that millions of US taxpayer dollars went to businesses tied to the likes of Jared Kushner, Mitch McConnell, and Devin Nunes, in what can best be described as a corporate looting free-for-all
Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, anti-government, Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand Institute, CARES Act, coronavirus, corruption, COVID-19, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Florida, Foremost Group, Grover Norquist, hypocrisy, Jared Kushner, Kanye West, Marc Kasowitz, Mitch McConnell, oversight, Paycheck Protection Program, PPP, public education, public health, Small Business Administration, transparency, Treasury Department, Yeezy 10 Comments
As protests spread over the murder of George Floyd, we’re once again reminded of the fact that we have the worst leadership possible to help us through this moment in history
Over the past several years, there have been multiple instances of police officers killing unarmed black men in the Minneapolis area. In 2015, there was Jamar Clark, who, according to multiple witnesses, was not resisting officers at the time of his killing. In 2016, there was Philando Castile, who was shot and killed on video […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, Amish, Amy Klobuchar, arson, Atlanta, black lives matter, call to violence, COVID-19, Derek Chauvin, Donald Trump, George Floyd, Hafsa Islam, I can't breathe, Jamar Clark, Killer Mike, Louisville, Memorial Day, Miami, Minneapolis, murder, pandemic, Philando Castile, police brutality, protests, riots, Ruhel Islam 99 Comments
The Untold History of Ypsilanti: Our Native American Past
As I mentioned a few days ago, two articles were recently brought to my attention (one from 1901, and the other from 1914) about the discovery of what appeared to be Native American remains on the property in downtown Ypsilanti we today call Water Street. Well, I followed up with the fellow who sent these […]
Posted in History, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 1600s, 1680, 1700s, 1800s, 1823, Abram B. Burnett, agricultural communities, Algonquian, archeology, Athens, beaver, Beaver Wars, Blue Jacket, burial grounds, burial mounds, burial tumuli, cemeteries, Chippewa, Concordia College, de La Salle, Delaware, dislocation, Edward King, epidemics, farming, forced removal, Ford Lake, Fort Recovery, French and Indian War, frontier, fur trading, Gabriel Godfroy, Georgian Bay, Gilbert Residence, Giwitatigweiasibi, glaciers, Hinsdale Atlas of Michigan Archaeology, Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Ho-Chunk, Hopewell Mound, human history, hunter gatherer, Huron River, Huron River Watershed Council, ice age, Indian, Iroquois, Joslin, King’s Flats, Lake Erie, Late Woodland period, Little Turtle, Matthew Siegfried, Miami, Michigan Avenue, Michigan Pioneer Collection, middens, Nandewine Sippy, native american artifacts, Native Americans, nomadic, Northwest Indian War, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, Odawa, Ohio River Valley, Ojibwe, oral history, Ottawa, Pontiac’s War, Potawatomi, reservations, Revolutionary War, Romaine La Chambre, Sauk, Sauk Trail, Serpent Mound, Shawnee, smallpox, South Huron, springs, Tecumseh, the British, the French, the history of white people, Three Fires, trading post, Treaty of Greenville, untold history, War of 1812, Washtenaw County, Water Street, westward expansion, Wilbert B. Hinsdale, Winnebago, Woodruff's Grove, Worden House, Wyandots, Ypsi history 47 Comments