Back in 2016, while on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made the following promise to Michigan’s automotive workers. “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this country, you’re going to have jobs again, you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that,” he said. Well, General Motors announced today […]
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The car dilemma… What do you think that I should do?
In September of 2002, I purchased my first, and only, brand new car. I’d always told myself that I’d never buy a new car… as new cars, as we all know, are for suckers… but my old Jeep, which was built from salvaged parts by the kids in a rural Kentucky auto shop class, was […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged cars, David Cross, Honda Civic Hybrid, personal transportation, Tauntaun, transportation planning 53 Comments
Hummer burial in Detroit
Today, as progressive groups from around the nation were massing in Detroit in preparation for tomorrow’s much anticipated U.S. Social Forum, the folks from Code Pink, together with Tyree Guyton and volunteers from the Heidelberg Project, came together to bury a burned-out Hummer. Here, from a May post on the Code Pink website, written on […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Politics Also tagged art cars, art installations, Code Pink, Ellery Street, Fuck You H2, gas mileage, General Motors, GM, H2, Heidelberg Project, Heidelberg Street, Hummer, Humvee, protest art, tax loopholes, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Tyree Guyton, U.S. Social Forum, visionary art, WXYZ 8 Comments