Tag Archives: NPR

Only 373 people show to watch the EMU Eagles win their first postseason game since 1996… Let’s make it up to them if they get another home game

By Mark | March 19, 2014

Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team had the distinction of making it onto the front page of Deadspin last night after the popular sports website was made aware of a series of justifiably angry social media posts made by starting EMU forward Glenn Bryant following the team’s 58-54 victory over the Norfolk State Spartans at […]

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged basketball, college sports, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Glenn Bryant, NCAA, WEMU, Wurst Challenge | 21 Comments

Shadow Art Fair defenders and detractors mix it up one last time

By Mark | July 15, 2013

Like every year at this time, the Shadow Art Fair media juggernaut has begun in earnest. As of today, there are articles in The Ypsi Courier and The Current, as well as on AnnArbor.com. And, this afternoon, WEMU aired an interview that I’d done with local “All Things Considered” host Bob Eccles. (I think it […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged All Things Considered, AnnArbor.com, Bob Eccles, Christmas songs, Current, flutes, honey pots, Jazz, Jingle Bells, Kiwanis Club, Mike Perini, pooping cat, the press, traps, WCBN, WEMU, Ypsilanti Courrier | 10 Comments

Jack Lessenberry to visit Ypsilanti and answer the question, “What does right-to-work mean for Michigan?”

By Mark | January 14, 2013

Tomorrow evening, at Ypsilanti’s Corner Brewery, celebrated Detroit journalist Jack Lessenberry will be hosting a panel discussion on Michigan’s newly passed anti-union (“right-to-work”) legislation, and how it will likely impact working Michiganders, their employers, and the financial prospects of the state. There’s scant information available online, but a friend who works for Michigan Radio tells […]

Posted in Media, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Center for Automotive Research, Corner brewery, Daniel Howes, F. Vincent Vernuccio, Jack Lessenberry, Kristin Dziczek, labor history, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Matt Greff, Proposition 2, Rene Greff, right-to-work, Ron Weiser, union busting, unions | 29 Comments

Introducing the People’s Budget

By Mark | April 11, 2011

As you no doubt know, President Obama and congressional leaders were able to avert a government shutdown by reaching an agreement on the 2011 budget late Friday night. While we don’t yet know all the facts, it looks as though the Republicans were not successful in their attempts to defund public broadcasting, and stop the […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics | Also tagged Amy Goodman, budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Democracy Now, entitlements, EPA, estate tax, global climate change, greenhouse gas, Jeffrey Sachs, lobbyists, Medicaid, Medicare, military spending, Millennium Promise Alliance, Obama, Paul Ryan, PBS, People’s Budget, public broadcasting, social security, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich | 25 Comments

If I can’t sleep, no one can…

By Mark | April 5, 2011

I’m up late reading the news, and there are three things I wanted to pass along, in hopes that they might keep you awake as well. 1) Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, while proposing deep pay cuts for employees of local government, “is using state funds to pay more than $81,500 a year to the 26-year-old […]