Frank Rich has a good article in the New York Times today about the death of the anti-gay marriage movement in America. (Apparently even Rev. Rick Warren, the powerful megachurch leader who endorsed California’s Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage, now says that he had “never” been and “never will be” an “anti-gay-marriage activist.”) In […]
Today, Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-California) and Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) unveiled a draft of their their bill to address climate change. Called the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the legislation sets out primarily to do three things – develop sources of clean energy, boost energy efficiency, and both cap and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The following […]
The “New York Times” has a good piece today on how we’ve put off investing in America’s cities for far too long. The author of the piece, Nicolai Ouroussoff, doesn’t focus on Detroit specifically, but I think a great deal of what he has to say is applicable here in the region. Here’s a clip: […]
For the most part, I’ve been willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt concerning his handling of the economy. My assumption up until now has been that he knows that, in the long run, several substantive changes need to be made to the system, but, right now, all he cares about is avoiding […]
I haven’t been terribly excited to hear anything new music-wise for a long, long time. An article in today’s New York Times, however, has me really intrigued. It seems as though Drag City Records just released a 1974 demo tape by three African-American brothers in Detroit – David, Bobby and Dannis Hackney – who, inspired […]
